Inside Johannesburg Water’s Existential Crisis – Johannesburg Water, which is responsible for supplying South Africa’s economic heartland with potable water, is in a tailspin, is financially unsustainable and is increasingly delivering substandard services – all thanks to political interference. [news24]
The 30-Year-Old Known For Dating Hollywood’s Octagenarian Set – Al Pacino, Mick Jagger, and Bill Maher have all become notches on the bedpost of the glamorous, 30-year-old film producer Noor Alfallah. [airmail]
Scene Stealer: The True Lies Of Elisabeth Finch – For years, a Grey’s Anatomy writer told her personal traumas in online essays, and wove those details into the show’s plot—until a surprising email to Shondaland accused her of making it all up. [vanityfair]
South Africa Defeated By New Zealand In Women’s T20 World Cup Champions – New Zealand are the Women’s T20 World Cup champions, having beaten South Africa by 32 runs. South Africa struggled with the ball after they won the toss and chose to field. The White Ferns put on a strong batting performance to post 158 for five. [enca]
From The McLaren F1 To The Ferrari F50: Car Collectors Are Getting Younger—And So Are The Models They’re Buying – This summer’s Monterey car auctions show that the market is getting a realignment, with the linchpin models of yesteryear ceding ground to more recently minted stock. [robbreport]
Six-Time Olympic Champion Chris Hoy, 48, Announces Terminal Cancer Diagnosis – The 48-year-old former cyclist, who is one of Britain’s most successful and recognizable Olympians, shared his diagnosis with The Sunday Times newspaper, saying that he initially went to the hospital last September after feeling some pain in his shoulder. [cnn]
CNN Reporter Struggles Not To Laugh While Covering Trump’s X-Rated Arnold Palmer Anecdote: ‘I’m Not Making This Up’ – A CNN reporter at the MAGA rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday struggled to make his way through a recap of former President Donald Trump’s talking points from the event, which included a lengthy anecdote about late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s genitalia. [nypost]
Europe’s Secret Season For Travel Starts Now – Summer might be the most popular season for tourism to Europe, but it hardly promises a calm, cool and collected experience. [cnn]
NASA’s Moon Suit Gets Runway Treatment In Prada Partnership – In one of the strangest partnerships we’ve come across, Axiom Space and Prada (yes, that Prada) have teamed up to produce the space suits NASA astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon as part of the space agency’s Artemis program. [newatlas]
Lab-Grown Meat: Will Britain Embrace Food Grown In A Bioreactor? – The government’s betting on lab-grown meat as the future of food, but will meat harvested in a vat ever win over the public? [independent]
Canary Islands: Thousands Demonstrate Against Tourism In Holiday Resorts – Protesters say local people are being priced out of the housing market and the millions of visitors damage the environment. [sky]
Cops Make Big Khat Bust In Karoo – A 42-year-old man has been arrested for drug dealing after police found khat worth R89,000 in a truck headed for Cape Town. [scrolla]
Charles Leclerc Wins United States F1 GP As Norris’s Battle With Verstappen Erupts – The season, a two-horse fight between Red Bull’s Verstappen and McLaren’s Norris, has long demanded a full-on head to head between the pair and they finally delivered with a humdinger, albeit not for the lead. [guardian]
What Is Behind Deadly Food Poisoning Incidents? Health Inspectors Descend On Soweto To Find Answers – Different State departments and agencies in South Africa have concluded that, following a “careful analysis”, the country is dealing with a chemical agent that could be behind a series of food poisoning incidents that has rocked the country. [iol]
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The 30-Year-Old Known For Dating Hollywood’s Octagenarian Set – Al Pacino, Mick Jagger, and Bill Maher have all become notches on the bedpost of the glamorous, 30-year-old film producer Noor Alfallah. [airmail]
Scene Stealer: The True Lies Of Elisabeth Finch – For years, a Grey’s Anatomy writer told her personal traumas in online essays, and wove those details into the show’s plot—until a surprising email to Shondaland accused her of making it all up. [vanityfair]
South Africa Defeated By New Zealand In Women’s T20 World Cup Champions – New Zealand are the Women’s T20 World Cup champions, having beaten South Africa by 32 runs. South Africa struggled with the ball after they won the toss and chose to field. The White Ferns put on a strong batting performance to post 158 for five. [enca]
From The McLaren F1 To The Ferrari F50: Car Collectors Are Getting Younger—And So Are The Models They’re Buying – This summer’s Monterey car auctions show that the market is getting a realignment, with the linchpin models of yesteryear ceding ground to more recently minted stock. [robbreport]
Six-Time Olympic Champion Chris Hoy, 48, Announces Terminal Cancer Diagnosis – The 48-year-old former cyclist, who is one of Britain’s most successful and recognizable Olympians, shared his diagnosis with The Sunday Times newspaper, saying that he initially went to the hospital last September after feeling some pain in his shoulder. [cnn]
CNN Reporter Struggles Not To Laugh While Covering Trump’s X-Rated Arnold Palmer Anecdote: ‘I’m Not Making This Up’ – A CNN reporter at the MAGA rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday struggled to make his way through a recap of former President Donald Trump’s talking points from the event, which included a lengthy anecdote about late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s genitalia. [nypost]