Up To 50 People Held Hostage In Sydney Chocolate Shop – Heavily armed police fanned out across downtown Sydney on Monday after an unidentified male took an undisclosed number of people hostage at a café in the central business district of Australia’s largest city. [time]

MH370: Search In Indian Ocean Priority Zone Could Finish By May – Families of the 239 passengers and crew provided DNA last week to help identify victims when plane is found. [guardian]

Zuma: Electricity Problems Apartheid’s Fault – SA’s energy problems were a product of apartheid and government was not to blame for the current blackouts, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. [m&g]

Zuma’s Excessive Secrecy ‘Worrying’ – The “excessive secrecy” of President Jacob Zuma and government departments is worrying, former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has said, according to Sunday’s Rapport. [n24]

Malema Elected EFF President Unopposed – Julius Malema was unanimously elected president of the Economic Freedom Fighters. [citypress]

American Who Says He Crossed Into North Korea Denounces U.S. Policies – An American who said he crossed illegally into North Korea denounced the United States political and economic system Sunday morning at a press conference in that country. [cnn]

Facebook Unfriends Microsoft Search Engine – The social media behemoth may be angling in on Google-dominated web search. [time]

Chinese Tech Giant Baidu To Invest $600M In Uber, Report Says – Bloomberg reports, Chinese search giant Baidu is reportedly pouring another $600 million into the company to shore up Uber’s expansion into China. [wired]

Russia Denies Another Near Collision In Baltics – Russia’s Defense Ministry on Sunday denied Swedish claims that for the second time this year a Russian military aircraft had nearly collided with a passenger jet over Sweden, insisting that the two planes were never less than 70 kilometers (42 miles) apart. [ap]

Upcoming James Bond Movie Script Latest Victim Of Cyberattack: Report – The hackers who perpetrated a massive cyberattack on Sony have stolen an early version of the script of “Spectre,” the upcoming installment of the James Bond 007 series, according to a report. [cnbc]

Sorry, Internet: Pope Francis Didn’t Open Paradise To Pets – But Pope Paul VI did, decades ago. This internet rumor isn’t true, but the Catholic Church really has done hard thinking about animal souls. [beast]

Capetonian Jenna Lowe Receives Two New Lungs After Struggling With Rare Disease – At age 17, Capetonian Jenna Lowe was diagnosed with a rare lung disease (Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension) and was listed for a bilateral lung transplant earlier this year. After hearing the news, a now 20-year-old Jenna set up the #GetMeTo21 campaign in the hopes of attracting organ donors. [thesa]

Angelina Jolie Bows Out Of ‘Unbroken’ Promos Because She Has Chickenpox – Angelina Jolie will be “home itching” rather than attending promotional events for her new film Unbroken because she has the chickenpox. [video]

Hear D’Angelo’s Brassy, Funky New Track ‘Sugah Daddy’ – One day after D’Angelo revealed he and his band the Vanguard would release his new album Black Messiah – his first LP in 14 years – in the near future, the idea of the neo-soul singer putting out music again still seemed difficult to fathom. [rollingstone]

Michael Stipe: ‘I Think I Will Sing Again’ – While the former R.E.M. frontman plans on singing again, it definitely won’t be with his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bandmates. [rollingstone]

Apple-1 Computer Sold At Auction For $365,000 – A 1976 Apple-1 computer from Steve Jobs’ garage sold for $365,000 at a Christie’s auction Thursday. [mash]

Kourtney Kardashian Gives Birth To A Baby Boy On Mason’s 5th Birthday – Reality TV’s first family just keeps on growing. Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday, Dec. 14. The little one will share a birthday with his big brother, Mason, who turned 5 on the big day. [yahoo]

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