Designer Nancy Gonzalez Sentenced To Prison For Smuggling Crocodile And Python Handbags – Celebrity fashion designer, who recruited couriers to transport bags from her native Colombia to US on commercial flights, receives 18-month sentence. [guardian]
Race Car Veers Off Track And Kills Seven People In Sri Lanka – The car crashed into a crowd of spectators and officials during a race in the town of Diyatalawa. As well as those killed, another 20 people are being treated in hospital – with three in a critical condition. [sky]
Alec Baldwin Smacks Phone Of Anti-Israel Agitator Who Demanded He Say ‘Free Palestine’ In Coffee Shop – Alec Baldwin was caught on camera smacking the phone of an anti-Israel agitator who repeatedly demanded he say “Free Palestine” inside a New York City coffee shop, according to footage posted online Monday night. [nypost]
AI Detects Mysterious Detail Hidden In Famous Raphael Masterpiece – Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural network has identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn’t actually painted by Raphael. [sciencealert]
Tesla Looks To Win Back Customers With Worldwide Cuts In EV prices – Shortly after announcing thousands of jobs are to go, Tesla reveals it is cutting the price of its electric vehicles around the world, including in Europe. [euronews]
Patients Fare Better With Women Doctors, Study Finds – Patients treated by female doctors fare better than patients treated by male doctors, according to new research published Monday, despite the field struggling to improve female representation in research and among practitioners. [forbes]
R38-million For ‘Standard’ Western Cape Home – Plettenberg Bay is known as one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the Western Cape, with the town’s Beachy Head Drive being dubbed “Africa’s Millionaire Row”. [jacarandafm]
