If you don’t know by now, Beau Constantia is a stunning wine estate perched on the slopes of the Constantia Valley, less than 15 minutes away from the city bowl. The farm’s wine maker, Justin van Wyk has this report on the state of the vines ahead of the 2014 harvest. Make sure you read […]

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The famous filmmaker Wes Anderson is well-known for his quirky films that feature large set of recurring cast members, iconic use of simple colours and whimsical musical accompaniments. Here’s a video showing that symmetry is another feature we should add to this list.

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Here is the new £1 coin for numismatists, a big word for coin collectors, to drool over. The new 12-sided design, similar to the three pence piece currently in circulation, is said to be the hardest in the world to fake.

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Civilians by the boat load are using the online map site Tomnod to find missing flight MH370, Courtney Love even thought she spotted the plane using the site’s images. This recent pic, showing a plane flying above a jungle, was reportedly discovered by a Taiwanese university student.

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A mysterious billionaire has set a new Guinness World Record for having the most expensive life insurance policy, $201 million. On top of that the annual premiums on the policy are costing the unknown billionaire a couple of million dollars.

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Even if you don’t know a stitch about football – Messi should ring a bell. During Barcelona’s 7-0 thrashing of Osasuna, Lionel Messi broke an 87-year-old Barcelona record. Messi being Messi, did it in style with a hat trick.

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Apple’s security is leakier than a colander of late. These images – based on a first hand description – of the company’s life data tracking app ‘Healthbook’ have surfaced. It is expected that Apple’s health-monitoring software for its mobile operating system will be launched with iOS 8.

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Sleep, glorious sleep. If you didn’t have enough reasons to nod off, take a gander at a few more. Some of these facts you can even use to try and convince your employer to start instigating nap time. It may sound contradictory to work efficiency but a having a six minute nap improves your memory.

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Authorities are frantically searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished on 8 March. So far, they’ve been stumped. So it’s super helpful that famed drug addict and musician, Courtney Love has coordinates and a picture of the missing plane.

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Rock legend and sex symbol Mick Jagger’s jaded history with women, requires a 24-hour dedicated news channel, with enough drama to keep it running long into the foreseeable future. Jagger’s love life has seen its fair share of suicide attempts, but until now it they haven’t seem to leave a scar behind.

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is partaking in the Inner Circle Show, an annual charity event where New York political journalists come together to poke fun of politics in a musical theatre setting. Here to aid the New York mayor for his skit on the show is actor Steve Buscemi.

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Check out the winning photographs of the Open and Youth categories of the 2014 Sony’s World Photography Awards. This year Sony’s World Photography Awards had to select the winners from 70,000 entries from around the world. These are some of the best amateur photographs you’re likely to see.

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Easter is fast approaching. While some of us only see it as a couple of days off from work, Christians will be all talk around the water cooler about the man that allegedly rose from the dead 2,000 years ago. Here are five little known facts about Jesus.

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Steve Jobs didn’t like Apple execs giving interviews. Up until recently Apple’s design chief, Jonathan Ive, has only appeared a handful of times in public for his works, much less give an in-depth interview. Please meet the designer that changed the world.

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Thanks once again, Russia, for a terrific YouTube video. What you have here is your standard house hold dog, banished from the bed. Throw in an absent owner and a hidden camera, and you have YouTube gold.

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What is the exact definition of “Tennessee Whiskey”, anyway? For an alcohol to qualify as Tennessee Whiskey, it must be fermented in the state from mash of 51 percent corn, aged in brand-new charred oak barrels, filtered through maple charcoal and bottled at over 80 proof. That’s how Jack Daniel’s make their whiskey, which is why they’re allowed to call it that. But that could change if lawmakers in Tennessee get their way.

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If you’ve put cocaine up your nose recently, there’s roughly an 80% chance that you’ve ingested a cattle deworming medication that will give you “chemical Aids” if ingested in the right quantities. Oh, and hairspray. Kim Gosner is a chemist specialising in the study of narcotics. Vice caught up with him to find out about […]

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Yesterday a major scientific discovery was announced which further bolsters the Big Bang Theory of the universe. Scientists found the first evidence for the primordial B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background which was detected by a telescope called BICEP2. This is direct evidence of cosmic inflation.

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Here’s some footage of flight MH370 Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid being searched by and clearing security before boarding the missing plane. In case you didn’t know by now, an investigation is underway to determine if the pilots intentionally vanished the plane and its passengers.

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With a solid summer taking us through to the end of May, and overseas June holidays around the corner, you better stake your claim from this brand new range of kaftans that went online this morning. Flaunt some poolside glamour, girls!

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Keep things safe and sound with a Four Channel CCTV kit or Four Channel HDMI CCTV kit. Easy to set up and use, this system has four cameras, complete with mounting brackets and cables and allow footage to be viewed via the internet or a cell phone. The HDMI kit expands things even further by giving security seekers a clearer picture than ever before, thanks to the handy HDMI port. A great solution to security issues at home or in the office, this kit allows you to catch criminals red handed or finally spot which neighbour’s been stealing your newspapers.

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Pistorius’s defense was dealt a heavy blow after it was revealed in court that the ‘Blade Runner’ was planning on stocking up enough arms to become Rambo. A month after he shot Reeva Steenkamp he canceled a large gun order he placed in June 2012.

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Someone just lost their job. This video illustrates exactly why attempting to drive a one million pound yacht beneath a Thames bridge days after the UK recorded its highest rainfalls in over two centuries is a bad idea. Brace yourself for the 1:08 mark. Maybe it’s better to get around in an Uber luxury sedan. Don’t […]

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Throughout history, creatively inclined people have had to sometimes rely on a rich benefactor for financial backing, while their ideas are still in the teething phase. “Ideas Island” is project by Fredrik Härén which allows creatives to stay on one of three private islands for free.

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Times are tough for Vijay Mallya. It’s almost a year since he shutdown his airline and had his name taken off the Forbes billionaires list. The Indian mogul’s estimated net worth has dwindled from $1.4 billion in 2012, to a mere $750 million in October last year. This bad spell has led Mallya to part ways with his R70 million Clifton pad.

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Bitcoin is an incredibly divisive topic. Should you buy, should you sell? Perhaps you should ask Warren Buffett. Here’s his advice.

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Last month, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that the messaging platform company are planning to add voice over IP (VoIP) functionality to their app. A screenshot of what it might look like has been leaked, showing the proposed feature on an iOS smartphone.

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Don Draper is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, smooth-talking ad man with a shadowy past, and he has a way with words. And over the past couple of seasons he has dropped more than a few pearls of wisdom.

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Had enough trials and tribulations with the start of a new working week? Take a breather and check out man’s best friend enjoying a dog’s life at a doggie day care.

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Navagio is rated as the prettiest beach in all of Greece, ipso facto the world – by a sane person’s logic. Nicknamed ‘Smuggler’s Cove’, the beach has its very own rusty shipwreck, which is rumoured to have once belonged to a smuggler – more logic.

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