Charlie Sheen Gets Standing Ovation At Second Show – fter being heckled and booed in Detroit, Charlie Sheen made some changes to his road show Sunday night – and this time, it ended with a standing ovation. Sheen used a talk show-style format at his Chicago show, with a master of ceremonies asking the actor questions. The interviewer, who didn’t identify himself, kept Sheen on track and gave the actor a chance to make some snarky comments. [huffpo]

Japan Asks Russia For Help With Nuclear Crisis – Japan has asked Russia to send a floating radiation treatment plant, used to decommission nuclear submarines, which will solidify contaminated liquid waste from the country’s crippled nuclear power plant. Engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been forced to release radioactive water into the sea until Friday and have resorted to desperate measures to contain the damage. [reuters]

Wayne Rooney Faces Two-Mtch Ban For Swearing [Video] – Wayne Rooney faces a two-game ban that would rule him out of Manchester United’s FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City after the Football Association charged him over his expletive-laden goal celebration during Saturday’s 4-2 win at West Ham. The FA charged Rooney with “use of offensive, insulting and/or abusive language” after he celebrated the penalty that completed his hat-trick at Upton Park by swearing directly into a television camera. [guardian / video]

Google Loses Swiss Street-View Vibe – A Swiss court has ruled that Google Inc. must guarantee anonymity before publishing faces and license plates captured in Switzerland for the popular street view service. The Federal Administrative Court largely sided with Switzerland’s data protection commissioner who claimed that Google was breaching citizens’ right to personal privacy, according to the ruling published Monday. [associated]

Onassis Curse Strikes Again As Playboy Model Leaps To Her Death – Every morning Athina Onassis helps her two stepchildren get ready for school. Two maids assist her with the household chores before she leaves in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce to watch 14-year-old Fernando at football practice. Last night, the 26-year-old billionairess was struggling to cope with the discovery that, despite her dedication to what is described as a ‘simple, healthy life’, she is the latest victim of the ‘Onassis curse’. [dailymail]

Brumbies Having A Good Look At Jake White – Former Springbok World Cup-winning coach Jake White is on a shortlist to take over the coaching reins at beleaguered Australian team the Brumbies next year. Brumbies chief executive Andrew Fagan confirmed that the Canberra-based team would be meeting White soon as part of their interviewing process for the job of head coach. [timeslive]

Oil Rises Above $120 On Libya Jitters – Oil prices rose above $120 a barrel in London trade Monday, for the first time in two and a half years, with the market nervous over the conflict in Libya and the region. Brent North Sea crude reached $120.63 a barrel just before 4pm GMT (6pm South African time) on the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London, its highest level since August 2008. [mail&guardian]

New York Serial Killer Fears Grow – Three additional sets of human remains have been discovered on the same New York beach where a serial killer is believed to have dumped the bodies of five other women. The victims who were previously identified were all prostitutes who had advertised on the internet site Craigslist. The bodies are believed to the work of a serial killer. [abcnews]

Ringo Starr Gives Drum Kit To Teenager – “You like those drums?” Starr asked Kipp as they stood behind a gleaming black-and-white set of Ludwigs, the brand long associated with him. “Hell, yeah!” beamed Kipp, who also has Tourette’s syndrome and punctuated the dialogue with his musical hero with joyful birdlike chirps and whistles. “They’re yours,” Starr told him. [latimes]

Thousands Watch Bald Eagles Nesting Online – Thousands of viewers were Monday flocking to a live webcam show featuring a pair of bald eagles raising their offspring in Decorah, Iowa. The Raptor Resource Project has had the webcam in place for months on a private property near a fish hatchery in Decorah, but once word spread on Friday that one of the eaglets was close to hatching, more than 100,000 viewers headed to the site to take a look, KCCI-TV reported. [fox]

First Look Inside Virgin Galactic Tourist Spaceship [Video] – Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson‘s company that hopes to be taking tourists into space within a couple of years, has shown the inside of its spacecraft to the media for the first time. A BBC journalist was this week given an exclusive look inside the vessel, which is designed to propel six tourists and two pilots through the atmosphere and over 100 kilometers above the Earth. [luxuo]

Wired Tests The New Electric Rolls Royce – The Rolls-Royce 102EX Phantom Experimental Electric is the most extraordinary EV yet. The list of superlatives you can apply to this car is as long as its wheelbase. The first electric Rolls-Royce is big. It is smooth. It is mind-bogglingly luxurious. And the torque just keeps coming. It has the largest battery ever installed in a passenger car, a 71-kilowatt-hour monster that would power your iPhone until Armageddon. [wired]

Jack Daniels Single Barrel Review – As it happened I had recently been given a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel by blogmeister and burgeoning media mogul Seth Rotherham, South Africa’s answer to Silvio Berlusconi (I mean that in the best possible way). It would do nicely. I might not be able to live the holiday (yet) but I could quaff some Big Jack and pretend. More.. [wordsonwhisky]

It Sees Designer Labels DO Make Your Life Better – Designers of fancy apparel would like their customers to believe that wearing their creations lends an air of wealth, sophistication and high status. And it does—but not, perhaps, for the reason those designers might like to believe, namely their inherent creative genius. A new piece of research confirms what many, not least in the marketing departments of fashion houses, will long have suspected: that it is not the design itself that counts, but the label. [economist]

Brian May Shares Love For Astronomy With Stereoscope – Queen rocker Brian May’s Ph.D. in Astrophysics is one thing, but less well-known is May’s passion for stereoscopy. May plans to release a series of astronomy-focused stereoscopic cards for low-fi, 3-D star-gazing. May told NPR: “All throughout those days when we were in Queen on tour, I would get up and think, ‘Hmm. I’m in Philadelphia for one of few times in my life. What will I do?’ Very often I would go out and try to find someone who would sell me some stereoscopic photographs, because it was always a passion.” Nice one, Brian. [wired]

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