ISIS Militants Kidnap More Than 400 Civilians In Syria – The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has been accused of abducting more than 400 civilians from the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, following a battle with Syrian government troops in the town. [time]

British Lawmakers Debate Banning Donald Trump From UK For ‘Hate Speech’ – For Donald Trump, in politics as in life, it seems the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. [cnn]

German Man Faces Trial Over Nazi Mass Murder At Auschwitz – A 95-year-old former SS member will go on trial in north-east Germany next month accused of assisting in the mass murder of Auschwitz death camp inmates. [bbc]

Gordhan Vows To Avoid Downgrade – Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says SA must avoid a rating downgrade to junk status, vowing the government would do what was necessary to prevent such a descent. [bdl]

SSA Employees To Appear For R17m Theft – Two State Security Agency (SSA) employees implicated in the theft of R17m from the agency are expected to appear at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. [n24]

City Prepares To Take Action Against Zuma Must Fall Banner Signage Company – It was not immediately clear when the City of Cape Town would take action against out of home media company, Independent Outdoor Media, which is alleged to have been behind the illegal erection of the ‘Zuma Must Fall’ banner on a city building. [tlive]

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Friends Reunited Website To Close After 15 Years – Though it has been around since Mark Zuckerberg was just 15 years old, one of the original social networking websites is to close. [guardian]

Cape Town Heatwave Is Here To Stay – Forecasters say with February around the corner, people should prepare themselves for longer heatwaves. [ewn]

Fire Sweeps Through Overberg Wine Plot In Half An Hour – Half an hour was all it took for a raging fire to sweep through the Ross Gower Wines plot in the Elgin Valley in the Western Cape at the weekend. [n24]

WhatsApp Is Dropping The $1 Annual Fee – Over the next few weeks, the popular chat app will become totally free. [eng]

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David Bowie Has His Own Constellation Now – As the world still mourns the passing of David Bowie, we can take some comfort that he’s posthumously received the most appropriate tribute ever: a constellation named after him, shaped in his iconic lightning bolt. [giz]

eNCA Anchor To Return To Air After Two Week Suspension – eNCA senior anchor Andrew Barnes has shown remorse for mocking Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga live on air and would return to his anchoring position following a two-week suspension, eNCA said on Monday. [tlive]

Kanye West ‘Planning David Bowie Tribute Album’ With Star ‘Determined’ To Continue Legend’s Work – The rapper is reportedly keen to sing “straightforward covers” of his songs and deliver his own rhymes over the late singer’s tracks. [mirror]

FIFA’s Blatter Is Still Being Paid His Salary Despite Ban From World Soccer – FIFA’s Sepp Blatter may have been banned for eight years from the game but he is still receiving his president’s salary from world soccer’s governing body, a spokesman for FIFA’s Audit and Compliance Committee told Reuters on Monday. [reuters]

Gareth Cliff’s Lawyers Confirm M-Net Has Not Met Their Demands – The legal team representing Gareth Cliff on Monday evening confirmed that a R25m lawsuit against M-Net would be going ahead. [ch24]

Dali Mpofu To Represent Gareth Cliff In R25 Million Lawsuit Against M-Net – The EFF’s Dali Mpofu will represent Gareth Cliff in his R25 million claim against M-Net‚ who fired him because he failed to show ’empathy’ when he tweeted that former estate agent Penny Sparrow had the right to say what she wanted. [tlive]

Does new Top Gear Presenter Chris Evans Suffer From Car Sickness? – Amid claims he won’t live up to predecessor Jeremy Clarkson, the new Top Gear presenter was forced to get out of the car to be sick during filming. [tele]

Great White Shark Up To 7m Long Sighted Off South Australian Beach – A great white shark, thought to be up to seven metres long, has been sighted off a South Australian beach, forcing the cancellation of a nearby junior surf lifesaving carnival and the evacuation of swimmers. [smh]

Glenn Frey, A Founding Member Of The Eagles, Dies At 67 – Glenn Frey, the guitarist, singer and songwriter who co-founded the Eagles, whose country-tinged, melodic rock tunes, wistful love ballads, philosophical anthems, observations of the outlaw life and testaments to the wages of decadence made it perhaps the leading American band of the 1970s, died on Monday in New York City. He was 67. [nyt]

Lewis Hamilton Takes His £1m Wheels Of Fortune Out For A Spin In Hollywood – World champ spotted driving round town in extravagant Ferrari supercar. [sun]

Rihanna & Leonardo DiCaprio Met Up In Paris As Friends – Rihanna steps out for a late night dinner on Monday evening (January 18) in Paris, France. [jj]

Khloe Kardashian Reveals She And Lamar Odom Made A Sex Tape — And She Still Has it! – Khloé Kardashian has revealed that she made sex tapes with her ex-husband Lamar Odom — and she still has the videos locked in her safe! [usm]

‘American Pie’ Singer Don McLean Arrested For Domestic Assault – Don McLean, the singer-songwriter who penned the 1971 hit “American Pie,” was arrested at his home in Camden, Maine on Jan. 18 for domestic assault. [mash]

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