Witness Willing To Testify She Saw Prince Andrew With A ‘Young Girl’ At London Nightclub – Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers seek her statement to counter the royal’s insistence he has never met their client or visited the club. [guardian]

Microsoft To Acquire Activision Blizzard For $68.7 Billion – Satya Nadella says the deal ‘will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms’. [verge]

Vladimir Putin ‘Is Now Plotting A Full-Scale Invasion’ – British defence chiefs and White House warn Ukraine is facing a ‘nightmare scenario’ as Russian troops mass along border and armoured divisions head to Belarus. [dm] Mellow start to the new year..

Berlusconi Reportedly Plays Up ‘Bunga Bunga’ Past In Campaign For Italy’s President – Silvio Berlusconi — the billionaire former Italian prime minister who allegedly threw orgiastic parties where young women dressed as sexy nuns, nurses and even Barack Obama — is angling to be his country’s next president. [nyp]

US Airlines Warn Of Impending 5G Flight Disruption – The 10 biggest US airlines have warned that the impending switch-on of 5G mobile phone services will cause “major disruption” to flights. [bbc]

British Girl Ski Death – Man charged with manslaughter after five-year-old dies following ski slope collision in French Alps. [sky]

Hiding The Guptas’ Dirty Money: How Zuma, Security Cluster Tried To Capture Financial Intelligence Centre – In a desperate bid to keep the Guptas’ extensive web of money laundering secret, Cabinet’s security cluster ministers, in 2016, tried to capture the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) by transferring it from the finance ministry to the justice or intelligence portfolios. [n24]

The Net Worth You Need To Crack SA’s Top 1% – Climbing the financial ladder to the very top often requires shrewd investment and a little bit of help. [here]

Electric Taxis To Be Trialled In South Africa – SA Taxi owner, Transaction Capital, plans to test electric taxis in South Africa as part of a possible long-term shift to cleaner energies. [btech]

Daniel Radcliffe, 32, Is Set To Play Satirical Musician ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, 62 – In biopic documenting his meteoric rise to fame. [dm]

Caretaker At Retirement Home Jailed 15 Years For Sexually Assaulting The Elderly – A 37-year-old Western Cape man was sentenced to 15-years in prison for sexually assaulting the elderly and for possessing child pornography. [iol]

Omicron Might Mark The End Of Covid-19’s Pandemic Phase — Unless A Certain Scenario Happens, Fauci Says – It’s still too early to predict whether Omicron’s rapid spread will help push coronavirus from the pandemic phase to a more manageable endemic phase — but “I would hope that that’s the case,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday. [cnn]

Novak Djokovic Saga – Tennis Australia ‘deeply regret’ impact on players, announce review after Australian Open. [eusport]

F1 Money Dispute Could Scupper 2022 Sprint Race Plans – Formula 1 risks having to abandon plans for sprint races in 2022 amid an ongoing stalemate over costs, according to McLaren CEO Zak Brown. [autosport]

Apple’s $2,000 VR/AR Headset To Take On FB, Google In Metaverse – Apple reportedly experiences delays with its virtual headset as tech’s biggest names look to rule the metaverse. [street]

Facebook Patented A Mechanical Eyeball – The “mechanical eyeball 100” features human-like features and can be jammed into an animatronic robot head. [giz]

Hong Kong Seizes Hamsters From Pet Store For Mass Cull – Authorities in Hong Kong have swooped in on a pet shop, seizing a number of hamsters to be euthanised following a Covid outbreak. [bbc]

Five Investing Rules To Create Long-Term Success – While we have seen a recent pullback in the crypto market, the phrase that continues to ring true is: “It’s not about timing the market but rather time in the market.” [here]

Inside The Strange Rachel Zegler-Britney Spears Video Controversy – Celebrities have jeopardized their awards chances for a wide range of controversies, but this may be the first involving the star of Zoey 101. [beast]

Britney Spears Wishes She Slapped Mom And Jamie Lynn’s ‘F***ing Faces’ – And just like that … the truce between Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears is over, ’cause Brit’s now openly wishing she’d slapped some sense into her sister and their mom when she had the chance. [tmz]

Megan Fox’s Engagement Is The Return Of The Rockstar Relationship – Her whirlwind relationship with Machine Gun Kelly has seen them wearing vials of each other’s blood, tattooing their names on one another and arriving at events chained to one another. [guardian]

Megan Fox Makes A Statement In ‘Sex’ Shirt – The “Jennifer’s Body” star, 35, celebrated her engagement to Machine Gun Kelly with a trip to Milan Fashion Week over the weekend. [p6]

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