Auckland Helicopter Crash Broadcast Live-Streaming On Internet – The pilot of a helicopter which crashed in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour is understood to have escaped serious injury. The squirrel helicopter was working to erect the seven storey Telecom Christmas tree at its new home on Auckland’s waterfront when it clipped a wire and crashed around 10:30 this morning (23h30 last night SA time). [3news]

It’s Not Over – Zille Warns On Info Bill – Vociferous protests in and outside Parliament failed to stop the ANC majority driving the contentious protection of state information bill through the National Assembly on Tuesday. The so-called “secrecy bill” was adopted with 229 to 107 votes by the 400-member chamber, drawing a flat warning from opposition leader Helen Zille that the legislation was heading for constitutional review. [news24]

Loyal Dog Refuses To Leave Grave [Video] – A dog in China who was the only companion to a single resident has refused to leave him even after his death. Lao Pan, 68, died earlier this month in the village of Panjiatun. His dog was found later at his grave, refusing to leave even after seven days without food. Warning, this video comes with an adorable rating of 10. [bbc]

Cocaine Ruined Oasis’ Third Album – Former Oasis member Noel Gallagher believes the band”s third album ”Be Here Now” was ruined because he and his bandmates were high on drugs. “We were taking all the cocaine we could possibly find. When you”re on cocaine, you think everything you do is incredible. The album is one of my least favourites, but wrapped up in that are some seriously amazing times. We were the biggest band in the world.” Gallagher said. [msn]

Federer Destroys Nadal In Three Sets – Tuesday’s match bucked the trend of tennis’s greatest rivalry by being thoroughly one-sided. Federer delivered a truly transcendent performance at the O2 Arena. He ousted Nadal in a mere 60 minutes, with the air of a surgeon performing a dissection. The scoreline – 6-3, 6-0 — was less a beating than a landslide. [telegraph]

Indian TV Takes Talent Shows To The Next Level [Video] – Indian TV talent judges were left horrified after an act performed a jaw-dropping routine – leaving them dripping in blood. They were stunned after the Warriors of Gojo even ran over one of their members with a car and motorbike during their audition. The group lined up bricks on a man’s head and smashed them to smithereens with a hammer. [thesun]

Bloomberg Slams Obama – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today said the failure of the supercommittee is a “damning indictment of Washington’s inability to govern” and blamed President Obama in part for the breakdown of the debt talks. “It’s the chief executive’s job to bring people together and to provide leadership in difficult situations. I don’t see that happening,” Bloomberg said at a news conference. [abcnews]

US Man Gets 315 Years For Child Porn – A 25-year-old Bloomington, Indiana, man was sentenced Tuesday to 315 years in federal prison for the production and trafficking of child pornography as part of a worldwide distribution ring. David Bostic was on the receiving end of one of the longest terms ever imposed in the Southern District of Indiana. [reuters]

Should We Ditch The Word ‘Cancer’? – “My friend’s mother got terrifying news after she had a mammogram. She had Stage 0 breast cancer. Cancer. That dreadful word. Of course she had to have surgery to get it out of her breast, followed by hormonal therapy. Or did she? Though it is impossible to say whether the treatment was necessary in this case, one thing is growing increasingly clear to many researchers: The word “cancer” is out of date, and all too often it can be unnecessarily frightening.” [nytimes]

Jessica Simpson Keen To Sign $4 Million Deal With Weight Watchers – She has yet to even give birth to her first baby. But it seems Jessica Simpson has already devised a post-pregnancy weight loss plan. Ever the business woman, the 31-year-old singer, who has amassed a fortune of over $1 billion dollars with her Jessica Simpson Collection, is reportedly in talks to sign a $4 million (R33 million) Weight Watchers deal. [dailymail]

4.74 Degrees Of Separation – So far, the “six degrees of separation” theory seems to be one of those facts which is neither substantiated nor disputed. Everyone seems to have accepted that “fact” that each person on earth is separated by six connections. Now, researchers at Facebook sampled 721 million Facebook users and found that rather than six degrees of separation, the average number of degrees between any two random people is about 4.74. [dandt]

Justin Bieber Takes Paternity Test – It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Justin Bieber as the “Baby” singer fights off accusations he fathered a baby with a fan, Mariah Yeater. But it may be almost over: Bieber has taken a paternity test in New Jersey. The pop star, 17, reportedly went to a lab to take the test under “very controlled circumstances,” and now Yeater, 20, just has to provide DNA from her child. [people]

Where In The World Are Your Twitter Followers? – Knowing where your Twitter followers are located can not only feed your curiosity, but it can also help you measure the success of your social campaigns. To do this, TweepsMap links to your Twitter account, analyzes your followers and provides a map or chart that shows where they’re located by country, state or city. [mashable]

London Mansion Goes For R1.5 Billion – With recent sale of properties like the Pinault Chelsea residence, and the Glebe, both of which are record breaking events in the real estate segment of the UK, the city of London seems on the radar of every high profile individual around the world. Adding to that list of high profiles sales is the mansion of NRI Raj Bagri which was sold for £120 million). [bornrich]

The World’s Scariest Roller Coaster? [Video] – While it’s not the world’s fastest or highest, this Austrian downhill coaster is nevertheless terrifying, as evidenced by this first-person video of the downhill plunge. The single-pipe alpine coaster located in Mieders, Austria, is reachable only by taking a suspended cable car to the top of the mountain. Once at the top, riders sit on a small car equipped with a brake lever and zoom down the steep mountainside. But this brave soul decided to show us what it would be like without using the brake lever through the entire ride. [huffpo]

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