Rugby player, Manu Tuilagi says he’s sorry for playing a prank on British Prime Minister David Cameron. Tuilagi was at 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon for a visit along with the British and Irish Lions. The group posed for a photo outside the entrance to honour the Lions’ 2-1 defeat over Australia, and Tuilagi pulled this stunt.

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Google Street View has captured some weird and wonderful moments around the world. Its taken us to the Galapagos Islands, under the sea and along the Tour de France. Now, Google Street View has helped save a stray dog.

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Do you love McDonald’s fries? Ever find yourself buying a burger just for the fries? No? … Just me then. Anyway, their fries are amazing. In my eyes they’re the best thing on the menu. And now you can make them at home.

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The first woman of Indian descent has been crowned Miss America, and she’s not letting any haters get her down. First day on the job and she’s frolicking around the beach for snap-happy photographers on Jersey Shore

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Stephen King’s It has come to life in the small English town of Northampton. A man dressed in full clown attire has been spotted hanging out on street corners late at night, holding colourful flowers, balloons and juggling. Clowns are scary enough as it is in the day-time, but in the middle of night, waving at you from a street corner, they’re terrifying.

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The first Vinyl Venzday last week was highly subscribed, as we were broadsided by the original Nirvana ‘Unplugged in New York’ vinyl album. This week is just as exciting as we play this very special vinyl album. Here is a 1986 Rolling Stone album review for ‘Licensed to Ill’ by the Beastie Boys: The Beastie […]

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The Department of Home Affairs has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the visa irregularities at the Gupta-owned 24-hour news channel, Africa News Network 7 (ANN7), or if you prefer, Gupta-TV.

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A report penned by two current and one former University of Cape Town students illustrates the alleged involvement of a current UCT student in the publishing of the now infamous UCT Exposed blog and Facebook page. UCT Exposed made a name for itself over the course of the last month by publishing the private correspondence and data of UCT students, including grades. The blog has caused severe emotional stress to a number of its targets.

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That’s according to Andrew Heslop, editor of press freedom and media development at the World Editors Forum, who wrote an open letter to Zuma that was published in the City Press on Sunday. The letter was a response to Jacob Zuma’s speech made to a group of journalism students from the Tshwane University of Technology about “patriotic reporting.”

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Jacob Zuma’s nephew, Khulubuse, and a business partner chartered a jet for R2,5 million to fetch R50 million in gold bars from Conakry, the capital of Guinea. However, on their return they found the “99.9% pure gold bars” were nothing more than copper and zinc knock-offs worth about R7,000. Eish.

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Microsoft has pulled this parody video from their website because it apparently didn’t have the “desired effect.” The video is called, “A fly on the wall in Cupertino?” and it depicts a series of meetings at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino where executives pitch ideas for the iPhone 5S and 5C.

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A former SAS soldier has confessed, in secrecy, to his wife, that Princess Diana was assassinated by shining a bright light into her driver’s eyes, causing the fatal accident in the Paris tunnel.

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Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather was victorious in his much anticipated fight this past weekend against Canelo Alvarez. Not only is he undefeated, but he is stinking rich and wants you to know how much money he has. It’s more than you can imagine. Check out this video of him counting $1 million on his private jet.

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In an awesome interview with Alexis Petridis for The Guardian, Elton John opens up about cocaine use and the temper he became famous for during what he describes as his “cocaine years.” Remember the famous incident when Elton John woke up to a storm outside his hotel room, and immediately called his managers demanding they change the weather?

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Charly, the world’s smallest (hence, cutest) pony has been kidnapped from a horse fair in Italy. The police, who aren’t horsing around on the issue, are suspecting the mafia will hold the pony for ransom.

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In 1996 The Independent called Stephen Crohn, “The Man Who Can’t Catch AIDS”, after they found his white blood cells had a genetic defect that made him resistant to the virus even when tested with “HIV concentrations thousands of times greater than would be encountered outside a test tube.” Being “immune” to HIV, he saw all of his friends die and last month, took his own life at age 66.

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You may be cold right now, but you’re delusional if you aren’t getting real about the fact that we’re on the home stretch of September already. Summer is knocking on the door, people. Are you going to fry to a crisp when it bursts over the threshold, or are you going to arm yourself with shade?

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The 34-year-old R&B singer has married the 27-year-old Sports Illustrated model, Chrissy Teigen. The couple tied the knot this weekend at a lavish estate in Lake Como, Italy – the spot where they fell in love. The beautiful bride said she bought three Vera Wang wedding gowns for the special day.

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Google Street View is making it harder and harder for us to find reasons to leave the house. This week marks the 178th anniversary of Darwin discovering the Galápagos Islands, and Google has launched an amazing 360 degree tour of one of the most biodiverse archipelagos on Earth.

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Footage has come to light that once again underscores the brutality of the conflict in Syria. A photojournalist embedded in that country has handed this series still shots to Time for publishing. Knitted together, the video documents the execution of a young Syrian (whose political or military affiliation cannot be verified) in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo, on August 31, 2013.

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Are you boycotting Stolichnaya vodka in protest of the anti-gay laws in Russia? You may want to think again. A gay rights advocate in Latvia, Kasper Zalitis who joined the forces boycotting Stoli, recently found out that Stoli vodka is actually made in Latvia.

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Court documents filed this week recommend that a man going by the online moniker of ‘Fat Longpig’ should be jailed for 27 years for planning the kidnap, rape and eventual cannibalisation of children.

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On 6 September, NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the same time, a frog took one giant leap for amphibiankind and photobombed the whole thing. Take that, rocket ship.

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If you are a Harry Potter fan, prepare to squee. JK Rowling has been lured out of retirement. That’s right, she’s back and ready for action. She has signed a deal to write a series of new films based on the wizarding world exposed in the Harry Potter series.

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Remember ‘Lost In Translation?’ Of course you do. It’s the iconic Tokyo love story between a young Scarlett Johansson and much older Bill Murray. Yesterday marked a decade since the film’s release, and the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the hit, Sofia Coppola re-visited the romantic-comedy by doing an interview with the Daily Beast.

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Are you looking for an office space? Would you be willing to pay R1,500 a month for this place, with internet speeds of almost 40Mb per second? This is for real. Take a look inside.

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Got heirlooms? Sure you do. Ever had the odd trinket go missing after hosting a dinner party? Sure you have. You never know who’s hiding a raging kleptomaniac beneath that nice private school exterior. But you don’t have to suffer shrinkage of your valuables and decorative smalls anymore if you box smart. And you know, you can put other stuff in there, too.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief election rival has sparked a storm by flipping the bird on the cover of the weekly magazine supplement of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper’s Friday edition. The middle finger, or “stinkefinger” (note: best vulgarity name, ever) is a fairly big deal in Germany. Cranking one out in public can earn you a fine of anywhere between 600 to 4,000 Euro.

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Nicole Kidman was knocked to the ground and out of her heels by a paparazzo on a bicycle as the man attempted to snap a pic of the actress in New York, yesterday.

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This is the latest full length international trailer for ‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’. The film chronicles former president Nelson Mandela’s life, from his childhood to the monumental day he was inaugurated as the first legitimate President of South Africa.

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