Zuma Spy Tapes DO Exist, But They’re A ‘Secret’ – The controversial spy tapes that got President Jacob Zuma off the hook on corruption charges do exist but will not be released to anyone – in spite of a court ruling. Wow. [timeslive]

Havoc As Storm Comes Ashore – Hurricane Sandy battered the mid-Atlantic region on Monday, its powerful gusts and storm surges causing once-in-a-generation flooding in coastal communities, knocking down trees and power lines and leaving two million people in the dark. [newyorktimes]

Rare Images Of New York In The Dark – A large section of Manhattan was in the dark Monday night after Hurricane Sandy flooded ConEdison substations and left roughly 670,000 customers in New York City and Westchester without power. [dnainfo]

Hurricane Sandy: Is it Evidence of Global Warming? – As the biggest tropical storm ever recorded in the Atlantic barrels along increasing stretches of the East Coast, some people can’t help but wonder: Is the “Frankenstorm” simply a bizarre but perfectly natural occurrence? Or is the extreme storm evidence of a shifting global climate? [ibtimes]

HMS Bounty Sinks: Captain Still Missing – The search continues for the captain of the stricken HMS Bounty, which has sunk near the eye of Hurricane Sandy. [skynews]

Parow Man Filmed Child Pornography, Then Bought The Kids Christian Books – A Cape Town man accused of taking pornographic pictures of two young girls later bought Christian books for them, the Parow Regional Court heard on Monday. Charming. [news24]

Sheryl Sandberg: $790,000,000 – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg joined the company in April 2008. She built it into a business generating $5 billion per year, worth $55 billion. And now she’s very, very rich. [busins]

Team Sky Confirm Steven De Jongh Departure After Sporting Director Confesses To Doping – Steven de Jongh has officially left his role as sporting director at Team Sky after admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career. [telegraph]

Apple Sells Out Of iPad Mini Models – Apple has sold out of its initial inventory of all iPad Mini models just three days after the new device became available for pre-order online. [mashable]

Apple Lets Go Of Exec Responsible For Maps – Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday replaced the heads of its software and retail units in the company’s biggest executive shake-up in a decade following embarrassing problems with its new mapping program and unpopular store-related decisions. [indiatimes]

Random House And Penguin Merging To Take On Amazon – Britain’s Pearson and Germany’s Bertelsmann are to merge their publishing units, Penguin and Random House, to recover ground lost to Amazon and Apple. Good luck with that. [mail&guardian]

Yoko Ono Didn’t Break Up The Beatles, Paul McCartney Says – Paul McCartney tells interviewer David Frost in a program set to air in November that Yoko Ono did not break up the Beatles, reinforcing the position that John Lennon often took in the years before his death in 1980. [latimes]

Gays Caused The Hurricane – The Eastern seaboard may have yet to experience the full wrath of Hurricane Sandy, but one right-wing Christian preacher is already pointing the finger at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. [huffpo]

Building ‘Titan’ – The World’s Fastest Supercomputer – An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the US bid to build a radical new machine, capable of solving some of the most complex questions in science today. Its secret: video game technology. [bbc]

Macy Gray Covers ENTIRE Stevie Wonder Album – Macy Gray’s “Talking Book,” which is billed as a “love letter” to Stevie Wonder’s classic album on the occasion of its fortieth birthday. [newyorker]

MTV Pays Damages After Reality Show Contestant Claim Toothbrush Rape – Reality TV could become less drunk, and more sensitive, in the wake of a costly settlement MTV/Viacom is paying to Tonya Cooley, who claimed she was raped with a toothbrush during the 2009 Thailand season of “The Real World/Road World Challenge: The Ruins.” [thedaily]

Kate Upton Lands Vogue Cover – Kate Upton has landed her very first Vogue cover, going from Sports Illustrated to the pinnacle of high fashion in less than a year. [dailymail]

Bristol Palin’s Ex, Levi, Marries Another Baby Mama – Levi Johnston has finally made an honest woman out of the mother of his latest child — the couple got hitched in Alaska yesterday. Wait ’til you see what the baby’s name is… [tmz]

Anderson Cooper Gone – The syndication arm of the Warner Brothers studio has decided that there will not be a third season of “Anderson,” the daily talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper. [nytimes]

Tom Cruise’s Neighbour Gets Tasered – Beverly Hills police on Sunday arrested a prowler at the home of actor Tom Cruise. Cruise was not home at the time, and officials said a security guard in the actor’s employ used a Taser stun gun to subdue the suspect. It was his neighbour. Drunk. [latimes]

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COMING UP TODAY

Nik Kershaw on 2oVfm between 16h00-17h00 – 80’s teen idol Nik Kershaw who in 1984 spent 50 weeks in the UK Singles Charts with tracks such as Wouldn’t it be good and I won’t let the sun go down on me, is in town for the Virgin Atlantic 80’s Rewind Festival. He chats to Paul Snodgrass from 16h00-17h00 today. [2ovfm]

Derek Watts and the Sunday Blues – They will be talking about their latest parody of the Carly Rea Jepson song, Call Me Maybe. Their track is inspired by Movember and the trials and tribulations of growing a tash. They’ve upped the ante with this video with cameo’s by Siv Ngesi, Michael Mol abd our very own Angel Blyth Campey. Tune in at 14h15 for the interview! [2ovfm]

FRESH PODCASTS

Does The Director Of Twilight Have A Chip On His Shoulder? – As next month’s premiere of the long-awaited Twilight finale draws near, the cast is jetting around the world promoting The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. The Pat and Marco Show caught up with Ashley Greene, who plays Alice Cullen in Twilight, where she talked about her current music tastes, Halloween, her SA experience thus far and what working on the Twilight Saga movie was like. [podcast]

The President Of Cats On The Brothers Streep Show – Last week the theme of the show was ‘Air Travel’. The Brothers were joined by long time friend of the show, Richard Bolland who, among things, discussed his mission to become the President of cats. The Brothers offered some questionable facts in ‘True or False’, and battled it out against each other in a 50′s themed addition of ‘The Quiz’. [podcast]