Ryan Lochte: Speedo And Ralph Lauren Among Four To End Sponsorship – Four sponsors have dropped disgraced US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, including swimwear manufacturer Speedo and fashion label Ralph Lauren. [bbc]

DA’s Herman Mashaba Elected Johannesburg Mayor, Marking The End Of ANC Rule In The City – The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday won control of Johannesburg, the country’s economic hub, unseating the ANC, which has run the municipal council since apartheid ended 22 years ago. [mg]

Just Sworn-In Joburg ANC Councillor Collapses And Dies – One of the new Johannesburg councillors who was sworn into office a few hours ago has died. [tlive]

Sarkozy Announces Bid For 2017 Presidential Race – Nicolas Sarkozy will run for president in 2017, hoping to return as France’s head of state after being unseated in 2012 by the now deeply unpopular Francois Hollande, he announced on Monday. [reuters]

ArcelorMittal To Pay R1.5bn Price Fix Fine – ArcelorMittal SA’s R1.5bn fine for price fixing sends a strong message of deterrence and is an important milestone in the commission’s enforcement against cartels, Commissioner Tembinkosi Bonakele said on Monday. [f24]

ANC Framed Me – Marius Fransman – ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman has named his own colleagues as conspirators in a plot to oust him – and says he has SMSes to prove it. [iol]

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Newborn’s Body Dumped At Sir Lowry’s – A concealment of birth case has opened at the Somerset West police station after the body of a newborn baby was found dumped near Sir Lowry’s Pass on Sunday. [enca]

Almost Half Of The Victims In The Turkey Bombing Were Under The Age Of 14 – At least 22 of the victims in a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep at the weekend were under the age of 14, a government official said on Monday. [huff]

Almost 1,800 People Have Died In Seven Weeks In The Philippines’ War On Drugs – The death toll from the Philippines’ war on drugs initiated by new President Rodrigo Duterte has risen to nearly 1,800 in the seven weeks since he took office, far higher than originally believed, the country’s police chief revealed during a Senate hearing Monday. [time]

Trump Outscores Hitler On Psychopath Scale — But Is It All That Bad? – When it comes to being a psychopath US presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves Adolf Hitler, and even Jesus, in his wake. [newsau]

FBI Uncovers 14,900 More Documents In Clinton Email Probe – The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge on Monday pressed the State Department to begin releasing emails sooner than mid-October as it planned. [washpo]

Bill Gates’s Net Worth Hits $90 Billion – The net worth of the world’s richest person Bill Gates hit $90 billion on Friday, fueled by gains in public holdings including Canadian National Railway Company and Ecolab Inc. Gates’s fortune is now $13.5 billion bigger than that of the world’s second-wealthiest person. [bloom]

Tickets For Tomorrow’s R1.7 Billion (US$ 127 Million Available Online – Look, it’s not in the league of Bill Gates, but I’m sure you’ll be fine. You’ll be a Rand billionaire, and there aren’t too many of those around. [tickets]

Billionaire Wiese Sees Potential To Consolidate Diamond Mines – Christo Wiese, South Africa’s richest man, sees opportunities to consolidate diamond operations in the region after buying a stake in a Cape Town-based miner of the precious stones. [bloom]

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Melania Trump Taking Legal Action Against Daily Mail For Defamation – Melania Trump has started legal action against the Daily Mail and other outlets for what she claims is a defamatory article about her past. [politico]

Fifteen Hundred Possibly Drunk Americans Successfully Invade Canada Via River – Canadian Coast Guard officials knew Sunday’s unsanctioned St. Clair River Float Down was a disaster in the making. [natpos]

Nick Cannon Reveals Details of His Sex Life With Ex-Wife Mariah Carey and How They Make Co-Parenting Work – The superstar’s ex Nick Cannon stopped by The Amber Rose Show Friday evening. [eol]

Say Goodbye To The Muffin Top Once And For All [Audio] – For some peeps the muffin top is a real downer, something they would happily kick to the curb. This may be the answer to never having a muffin top again. [here]

Michael Phelps Was In No Mood For Chirpy Reporter On U.S. Return – Part of being the world’s greatest swimmer ― with 23 Olympic gold medals ― involves dealing with the media, even when you don’t want to. [huff]

Barbra Streisand Called Tim Cook Because Siri Mispronounces Her Name – Barbra Streisand is not a fan of the iPhone mispronouncing her name. So she decided to call Apple’s CEO. [cnn]

The 9 Craziest Things I Saw at the Rio Olympics – Bouncing subways, diving sprinters and a criminal investigation. [time]

The Strange Saga Of JT LeRoy: Inside The Literary Hoax That Fooled The Stars – Author: The JT LeRoy Story humanizes the bizarre tale of a folk hero who turned out to be more fiction than fact. [db]

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