Top Gun: Maverick Wins Best Picture From The National Board Of Review – An Oscar nod for best picture is looking more likely by the day. Can it win? [vanfair]

State Of Capture: Cyril Ramaphosa Is A Prisoner Of The ANC – Like the hapless Pik Botha many years ago, the president is presented as the acceptable face of a notorious party that never accepted him. [tlive]

Elon Musk Plans To Charge iPhone App Users 60% More For Twitter Blue, Report Says – The report said the price changes were likely to be a response to Apple’s 30% levy on in-app transactions made through its App Store. [busins]

EuroMillions Jackpot: Syndicate Of 165 Belgians Wins €143m – A group of 165 people from a Belgian village has collectively won more than €143m (£123m) in the EuroMillions lottery. [bbc]

Ex-St Andrew’s College Water Polo Coach Found To ‘Have Groomed Boys’ Cries Foul Over New Probe – David Mackenzie, a former water polo coach at the prestigious St Andrew’s College, believes the police have mounted an investigation into him in retaliation for going after them, his lawyer told News24. [n24]

Ramaphosa Declares 27 December A Public Holiday – The Presidency said that President Cyril Ramaphosa had now declared Tuesday 27 December a public holiday to uphold the relevant labour law principles and practice. [ewn]

‘The World Changed Overnight’: Zero-Covid Overhaul Brings Joy — And Fears — In China – Workers across China have dismantled some of the physical signs of the country’s zero-Covid controls, peeling health code scanning signs off metro station walls and closing some checkpoints after the government unveiled an overhaul of its pandemic policy. [cnn]

New York Times Poised For First Mass Staff Walkout In 40 years – Daylong action comes as union and management clash over wages and remote work. [guardian]

FTC Sues To Block Microsoft Acquisition Of ‘Call Of Duty’ Publisher Activision Blizzard – The almost $69 billion purchase would be the largest in video game history but only if the federal government lets it proceed. [vice]

Nick Carter Allegedly Raped A 17-Year-Old Girl On A Backstreet Boys Tour Bus In 2001, A New Lawsuit Claims – “The last 21 years have been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-harm that are a direct result of Nick Carter raping me,” Shannon Ruth, now 39, said. [bfn]

Harry & Meghan Review – So Sickening I Almost Brought Up My Breakfast – Although there are sweet moments alongside the vomit-inducing, the overriding message of this royal documentary is: the late Queen was right to keep stumm. [guardian]

Flight Attendants Share Their Air Travel Secrets – It feels like the summer of travel chaos only just subsided, but the holiday travel season is now upon us. [cnn]

Tory MP Plans Proposed Law To Strip Harry And Meghan Of Royal Titles – Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely accused the Duke of Sussex of ‘attacking’ the monarchy, calling it a ‘political issue’. [evestan]

South Koreans Set To Become Younger As Traditional Way Of Counting Age Scrapped – South Korea on Thursday passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard – a shift which will make its citizens either 1 or 2 years younger on official documents. [reuters]

Rum Cocktails Are Going To Be A Smash Hit This Summer – To prepare for summer days and a cocktail haze, get a few rum-based recipes under your belt. [here]

Japanese Billionaire Unveils The 8 Artists He’ll Fly To The Moon On SpaceX’s Starship DearMoon Flight – The creator of ‘Everyday Astronaut’ is among the eight. [space]

Nigerian Student Aminu Adamu Mohammed Apologises To Aisha Buhari Over Tweet – A Nigerian university student arrested and detained for more than two weeks after he allegedly defamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife on Twitter has apologised to the first lady. [bbc]

Khloé Kardashian’s “Heartbreaking” Reaction – To Being Told She Looks “Different” In An Old Interview Has Reminded Fans Of The Harsh Way Kris Jenner Described Her At Birth. [bfn]

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