Facebook Loses Millions Of Users As Biggest Markets Peak – Facebook’s dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path. [guardian]

PetroSA Chair Vacates Position On Back Of R1bn Oilgate 2 Scandal – PetroSA chair Benny Mokaba has vacated his position, following an energy department investigation into irregular spending and a damning M&G report. [mail&guardian]

Noma Is No Longer The World’s Best Restaurant – Just when it seem that the food world had moved beyond the high-wire pyrotechnics of modern Spanish cooking, along came the 2013 list of the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants. [time]

Treading On Thin Ice: Three European Climbers Get Into Fight With Sherpas Near Everest Summit – The team of three Europeans claim a misunderstanding between themselves and a group of Sherpas deteriorated into an ugly scene. [independent]

New Courtroom Drama Over Michael Jackson – The trial in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against Anschutz Entertainment Group by the late singer’s mother and three children began Monday. [latimes]

Apple To Release OS X 10.9 With More From iOS Later This Year – OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed “Cabernet,” will focus on various “power-user” enhancements and take core features from iOS. [9to5mac]

Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Tests Rocket in Flight – After years of delays and nagging engine problems, Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture cleared an important hurdle Monday with the first powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo craft. [wallstreetjournal]

Google Takes On Siri – After a promo video let the cat out of the bag last month, Google is making it official: with an update to the Google Search application, Google Now is available on iOS. [verge]

Surrounded by Somali Militants, American Jihadi Live-Tweets His Standoff – The most wanted American jihadi in Somalia survived a Thursday assassination attempt only to tweet today that his former allies in al-Qaida’s Somali affiliate are stepping up their efforts to wipe him out. [wired]

Netherlands: Queen Beatrix Handing Over Power – Big crowds are anticipated in Amsterdam as Willem-Alexander becomes Europe’s youngest monarch, but some protests will be allowed. [skynews]

Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger Poised To End 17-Year Reign – Paris St-Germain’s Qatari owners are confident that they can prise Arsène Wenger from the last year of his contract at Arsenal to become their new manager when Carlo Ancelotti leaves the French capital at the end of the season. [telegraph]

Sweden Is The Most Socially Advanced Country In The World – Sweden is the most socially advanced country globally according to a new index released today at the Skoll World Forum, which shows that social progress is about much more than economic growth. [yahoo]

UK Government Passes Instagram Act: All Your Pics Belong To Everyone Now – Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr? Live in the UK? If so, you’ll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight. [thereg]

Man Dies repeating His Own Guinness World Record Stunt – An Indian Guinness World Record holder who attempted to cross a river suspended from a zip wire attached to his ponytail has died during the stunt. [bbc]

Prisoners Are using Yelp To Review Jails – Lawyer Robert Miller has visited five prisons and 17 jails in his lifetime, but he has reviewed only three of them on Yelp. One he found “average,” with inexperienced and power-hungry officers. [washpo]

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