Facebook Climbs To 1.59 Billion Users And Crushes Q4 Estimates With $5.8B Revenue – By courting users and ad dollars in the developing world, Facebook continued its growth streak. It hit 1.59 billion users today and crushed the street’s estimates in its Q4 2015 earnings with $5.841 billion in revenue and $0.79 earnings per share. [tc]

Recession Risk Puts SARB In A Bind – The risk of a recession in South Africa this year is mounting, making policy decisions more difficult for a central bank battling to balance the need to contain inflation and support a stuttering economy. [iol]

ANC Has Turned South Africa Into A Crony State: Rivonia Trialist – He was addressing the audience at Guildhall where he, along with fellow trialist Ahmed Kathrada and struggle lawyers George Bizos and Lord Joel Joffe, were being honoured with the freedom of the city of London. [tlive]

Attempt To Cut Down Rhodes Statue Foiled – An unidentified group of people attempted to cut down the Cecil John Rhodes statue in Cape Town’s Company’s Garden on Wednesday. [read]

Outrage In Denmark As Teen Girl Faces Fine For Using Pepper Spray Against Sex Attacker – A Danish teenager who said she was sexually assaulted now faces a fine for using pepper spray against her attacker. The man who pulled her to the ground and tried to undress her fled the scene without any charges. [rt]

This Is The Blooming Trend In Cape Town And You Can Be Part Of The Design – Somewhere in the world is a sky high pile of odd socks, which can be the only logical explanation for how it always comes to be that one sock goes missing and you end up head deep in the washing machine or dryer. [more]

Mysterious – Cabin Crew And Passengers Fall Ill On LA Bound Plane – Passengers have told of the terrifying moment flight AA109 was forced to make an emergency landing after up to six crew members became ill. [stuff]

Trevor Noah Pens Book On Apartheid Childhood – Comedian Trevor Noah, the host of America’s “The Daily Show”, will release a book about being the child of an illegal mixed race relationship under apartheid, his publishers said Wednesday. [st]

A Teen Flew From Sheffield To Essex Via Berlin Because It Was Cheaper Than The Train – A man flew from a business meeting in Sheffield to his home in Essex via Berlin because it was £8 cheaper than taking the train. [metro]

Qatar Airways May Launch World’s Longest Flight – A whopping 18½-hour journey between Doha, Qatar, and Auckland, New Zealand, is poised to become the world’s longest direct flight if Qatar Airways follows through with plans for the new route. [cnn]

Why This R500 App Is Cheap At The Price – We all have a certain degree of pride, and no one wants to be the person who whips out that tatty voucher at bill time. You really are doing it wrong. [read]

Sea Levels Rising Much Faster Than Predicted – Researchers say the thermal warming of oceans has been underestimated and is causing sea levels to rise at double the expected pace. [mg]

More Than Half Of China’s Population Is Online — And Most Use Smartphones – For the first time, more than half of China’s 1.37 billion population is connected to the Internet, a new report says – and more than 90% of users access the Web by smartphone. [wsj]

Watch: El Chapo Gets His Mugshot Taken – The footage also shows the drug lord being fingerprinted and blood-tested as he returns to the prison he escaped from last year. [sky]

Grandmother Who Claimed To Have Washed The Winning £33m Lotto Ticket Is NOT The Winner – The grandmother who claimed she had a £33million lottery ticket but accidentally put it in the washing machine is definitely not the winner, it was claimed last night. [dm]

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Cape Town To Donate Impounded Cellphones – The City of Cape Town has decided to donate cellphones impounded from motorists rather than auctioning them off. [f24]

Robin Williams’s Napa Home Sells For $18.1 Million – Initially put on the market in 2012 for $35 million, the property includes a roughly 20,000-square-foot house on about 650 acres. [wsj]

All Saints Confirm Comeback – With brand new single One Strike and forthcoming album. [es]

DeLoreans, Iconic Car From Back To The Future Franchise, Set For A Comeback – Always dreamed about owning a DeLorean? The iconic car immortalised by the Back to the Future franchise might be making a comeback. [abc]

Rowan Atkinson, 60, ‘Moves Girlfriend Louise Ford, 32, Into His £4.65Million London Cottage’ Just Weeks After His Divorce – The Sun report that the 60-year-old funnyman is shacking up with his actress partner, 32, after she moved into his £4.65million cottage in North London. [dm]

Rihanna’s New Album ‘Anti’ Is Leaked Online – The surprise release of a new Rihanna single, “Work,” went smoothly on Wednesday morning as the song shot to the top of the iTunes charts in dozens of countries. But by 7 p.m. Eastern time, what appeared to be her entire eighth album, “Anti,” had leaked online, another misstep in an already fraught rollout. [nyt]

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