Washington Navy Yard Shooting Leaves 13 Dead, Including Gunman – 13 people are dead and eight wounded after a military contractor went on a shooting rampage at Washington Navy Base. Twelve were shot dead by Aaron Alexis, who was eventually shot and killed by police. [newsau]

Suspected U.S. Shooter Had ‘Secret’ Clearance – Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old suspect in Monday’s shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, had “secret” clearance and was assigned to start working there as a civilian contractor with a military-issued ID card, according to his firm’s chief executive. [reuters]

Obama: ‘Cowardly Act’ at Navy Yard Kills Patriots – President Barack Obama is mourning what he calls “yet another mass shooting” in the United States that took the life of what he says were American patriots. [abc]

Saudi Prince Will Not Be Selling His Twitter Shares – Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he will not sell any of his shares in microblogging site Twitter Inc when it goes public, and expects the firm’s IPO to hit the market later this year or in early 2014. [reuters]

Wynberg Girls’ High School Bursar Steals Half A Bar In One Month – A women, who defrauded the Wynberg Girls’ High School in Cape Town out of more than R500 000, was jailed on Monday for in effect seven years. [news24]

Miley And Liam Are Overs – Miley Cyrus, 20, and Liam Hemsworth, 23, have ended their relationship and called off their engagement. [usat]

Costa Concordia Upright After Salvage Operation Off Italy Coast – Engineers have declared the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship completely upright after a 19-hour operation to pull it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany. [cbc]

AfriForum Hails Zimbabwe ‘Land Grab’ Payment – Lobby group AfriForum on Monday claimed victory in the long drawn-out battle to force the Zimbabwean government to compensate white farmers who lost their land during the infamous land seizures in Zimbabwe. [bdlive]

Iran Appears To Loosen Restrictions On Facebook And Twitter – After four years of intricate and widespread filtering, Iran today loosened restrictions on both Facebook and Twitter, allowing open access to the servers. [verge]

South. Korean Man Shot Dead In Failed Attempt To Cross River To North – A South Korean man was shot dead on Monday while attempting to cross over a river along the border with the North, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. [yonhap]

Britney Will Earn $30m In Two Years In Vegas – Britney Spears will be raking in HUGE STACKS in Vegas this winter — a ridiculous $310,000 per show … nearly $15 million per year — but she still doesn’t hold a candle to Celine Dion. [tmz]

Former LA Music Exec Jerry Sharell Held Hostage, Stabbed – A former music industry executive is in critical condition in Los Angeles after authorities say his girlfriend’s suicidal ex-husband held him and the woman hostage for more than five hours and cut him with a machete. [hersun]

Brad Pitt Has Cut His Hair – Brad Pitt is 49 years young! With fiancee Angelina Jolie and their six kids a world away in Australia, the actor got to work on the London set of his new film fury on Saturday Sept. 14 — and gave fans the best glimpse yet of his drastic new haircut. [usm]

Man Who Was Evicted For 1964 Olympics To Be Evicted For 2020 Olympics – [deadspin]

Bombardier’s All-New Commercial CSeries Makes Inaugural Flight – Bombardier Inc’s (BBDb.TO) CSeries jetliner successfully completed its first flight on Monday, a key step in a $3.4 billion program to develop the first all-new narrow-body plane of its size in decades that the company hopes will increase sales. [reuters]

Google Street View Car In ‘Accident’ – A Google Street View car hit two public transport buses and a truck in the city of Bogor, Indonesia. [bbc]

R4 Billion Is 4th Largest Powerball In History – What a lovely opportunity for people that haven’t been feeding this monster, to just jump in now and possibly claim glory. And for those who have been plugging away – you can’t pull out now! Get tickets [here]

Rotten Tomatoes to Give ‘Fresh’ Ratings to TV Shows – Site expands into TV for the first time and will include reviews for seasons of scripted shows, giving them its signature ‘Fresh’ or ‘Rotten’ ratings. [variety]

Kim’s Bid To Split From ‘Kardashian P.R. Machine’ – Kim Kardashian has hired a new publicist in a bid to distance herself from her family melodrama. [page6]

Not Very Good Timing – Police have arrested a man accused of throwing firecrackers over a fence near the White House Monday evening. [nbc]

Lindsay Lohan Skips Bra, Flashes Major Side Boob on Way to Mom’s House – Lindsay Lohan obviously did not throw a bra on under the loose black tank-top she wore to mom Dina Lohan’s house today in New York, leaving a tremendous amount of side boob hanging out for the world to see. [eonline]

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