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Covid: Man Jailed For Scotland-Isle Of Man Water Scooter Crossing – A man who crossed the Irish Sea from Scotland to the Isle of Man “on a jet ski” to visit his girlfriend has been jailed for breaching Covid-19 laws. [bbc]

Johnson & Johnson The First To Apply For Covid-19 Vaccine Registration As South Africa Starts Review Process – South Africa’s health products regulator says it will take an ‘expedited approach’ when reviewing Covid-19 vaccine candidates. [mav]

Cele Sends Beach Closure Warning To Cape Town – Police Minister Bheki Cele has warned that beaches in the Western Cape could be shut if citizens to not adhere to the new restrictions enforced by president Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday evening. [btech]

Govt Deploys Drones To Help With Mountain Rescue Operations – A First For SA – A fleet of drones has been enlisted to assist emergency medical services (EMS) in rescue and reconnaissance operations in Cape Town. [busins]

Paris Fined €90,000 For Breaching Gender Parity Law By Appointing Too Many Women In Senior Roles – Paris town hall has been fined €90,000 for appointing too many women in senior roles, a decision branded “absurd” by the city’s mayor Anne Hidalgo. [eunews]

New Lockdown Restrictions Make Wine Farm Visits Even More Appealing – The sale of alcohol from retail outlets is once again restricted to set days and hours during the week, with one notable exception. Hello, wine farms. [here]

Cocaine ‘Ghost Boat’ Washes Up In Marshall Islands – Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. [bbc]

Bitcoin Tops $21K, Blowing Past $20K Record As Analysts Remain Confident Of Future – After testing investor patience for three weeks, bitcoin surged past $20,000 to reach fresh all-time highs and is currently trading above $21,000. [coindesk]

There’s A Run On SA Blue Cheese Following Joe Biden’s Win – When last did you even have blue cheese? I haven’t had it in ages. It tweaks me when I gavotte through the Checkers cheese zone, but I don’t often follow through. [2ov]

There’s A Push For SA To Copyright Biltong – But Namibia Could Be A Problem – The international biltong industry is growing rapidly; a leading American biltong producer reported a year-on-year increase in sales of up to 500% in 2020. [busins]

F1 Confirms Expanded 23-Race Season With British Grand Prix On 18 July – Formula One’s longest season has been confirmed by the FIA World Motor Sport Council for 2021. [guardian]

Trump Reportedly Mulling Clemency For Silk Road Drug Kingpin Ross Ulbricht – Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of various charges related to the online drug marketplace. [cnet]

First Moon Samples For More Than 40 Years Brought Back To Earth – The rocks come from the volcanic Ocean of Storms and are billions of years younger than previous collections. [sky]

Imprisoned Nearly 40 years, A Michigan Man Is Freed After A Witness Recanted Her Story – Walter Forbes was a young college student in 1982 when he stepped between two groups fighting outside a bar in his small Michigan town. [cnn]

Inside The Shady Sex-Work Abolitionist Group That Gutted Pornhub – Following a Nicholas Kristof Times exposé, Pornhub removed millions of videos. But the group behind the crusade is an anti-sex-work outfit that’s raising money off the controversy. [beast]

David Bowie’s Unreleased John Lennon, Bob Dylan Covers Set For Birthday Single – Renditions of “Mother” and “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” to be released on seven-inch and digitally on January 8th, 2021, Bowie’s 74th birthday. [rollsto]

Hairstylist Slams Charlene Of Monaco’s New Punk Look – As she debuts a VERY bold half-shaved hairstyle after ditching her signature blonde bob. [dm] Hahahaaa! Imagine ‘slamming’ someone for their hairstyle. 

Inside TikTok’s Extraordinary 2020 – The world spent 2.8 billion hours on TikTok in March alone, with COVID providing a captive audience looking for diversions from a draining news cycle. [vice]

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