SA Man Booted Out Of Australia After 9 Years In Prison For Raping Two People – A South African man has been stripped of his Australian citizenship and will be booted out of the country after spending nine years behind bars for raping two people. [iol]

Football Icon Diego Maradona Dies At 60 Following Heart Attack – The Albiceleste superstar was recovering at his home in Tigre after undergoing brain surgery at the start of November. [goal]

China’s President Xi Jinping Congratulates Biden On Election Victory – The message comes soon after the Trump administration officially authorized the Biden transition. [nbc]

Trump Plans To Pardon Former Aide Michael Flynn: Reports – Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about interactions he had with Russia’s ambassador to the US in the weeks before Trump took office. [reuters]

Biden Says He’d Meet With Trump ‘If He Asked’ – President-elect Joe Biden said he would be open to meeting with President Trump as part of the transition, even as Trump has refused to publicly accept the results of the election. [hill]

Revealed: UK Supermarket And Fast Food Chicken Linked To Deforestation In Brazil – Tesco, Lidl, Asda, McDonald’s and Nando’s all source chicken fed on soya from Cerrado tropical biome region. [guardian]

AWS Outage Has Taken Down A Big Chunk Of The Internet – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage affecting a large portion of the internet. [verge]

How I Save R12 000 On My Annual Home Coffee Bill – I’ve been praising the ‘bean to cup’ lifestyle for a while now – ever since I got a JURA coffee machine. You know, the one with Roger Federer. [here]

Old Mutual Becomes Latest Insurer To Lose A Covid-19 Case In Court – Another insurance company has failed to defend its decision not to pay a claim for losses incurred due to the Covid-19 lockdown. [tlive]

Tackling ‘Period Poverty,’ Scotland Is 1st Nation To Make Sanitary Products Free – The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to pass a measure that makes free period products available to anyone who needs them, the first country to do so. [nyt]

Rapists Will Be Chemically Castrated In Pakistan Under New Laws Approved By Prime Minister Imran Khan – Pakistan’s Prime Minister has approved in principle a law on chemical castration of rapists. [dm]

Snoring Juror Dismissed From Australian Murder Trial – The juror was said to be asleep ‘for some period of time’ [ind]

Putting Trump Past Us Is Like Exiting An Abusive Relationship: It Takes Time – Under Trump many had a ‘collective hypervigilance and anxiety of what he might do next’, experts say – so how do we unpack these past four years? [guardian]

Nearly 100 Whales Die After Mass Stranding In New Zealand – About 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins have died in a mass stranding on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 km (497 miles) off New Zealand’s east coast, officials said on Wednesday. [mav]

The New ‘Gold Rush’ For Green Lithium – Lithium is crucial for the transition to renewables, but mining it has been environmentally costly. Now a more sustainable source of lithium has been found deep beneath our feet. [bbc]

ANC Won’t Pay R102m For Election Posters Despite Court Order – Party says it will appeal judgment rather than pay Durban-based company. [iol]

Hello, Summer – Three Quick And Easy Gin Cocktails Worth A Go – You aren’t doing summer right if you’re not watching the sun go down with a cold drink in hand. [here]

He’s An Ex-Proud Boy. Here’s What He Says Happens Within The Group’s Ranks – On the night of a recent Million MAGA March in Washington DC, a large man in a Proud Boys polo shirt runs at a Black woman from behind and punches her in the head. She falls to the pavement. [cnn]

Why Stollen Christmas Bread Is Called Stollen – Stollen is a cake like yeast bread that usually has candied fruit, currants, orange and lemon zest, spice and cardamom spices for flavoring. The most common Stollen is Dresdener Stollen from the city of Dresden, Germany. [kitchpro]

The Untranslatable Word For Overeating – In Georgia, known for its epic feasts and toasts, people often experience shemomechama, an untranslatable word for when you are full but you continue eating anyway. [bbc]

Kylie Jenner Shows Off Her Bottom – As she models an orange bikini to spread the word about her Black Friday sale… after posing in a red two piece. [dm] ‘Shows off her bottom’!

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