Julius Caesar, the most prominent and famous of all the Roman rulers was stabbed on the 15th of March, 44BC – known as the Ides of March. We know this thanks to the many classical texts detailing the event. For the first time, archaeologists suspect they may have found physical evidence.

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The Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and the Black Keys have collaborated on a track for RZA’s upcoming film ‘Man with the Iron Fists’ – a Kung Fu film that he is directing, starring and co-writing (alongside Hostel’s Eli Roth) which opens November 2.

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I’ll be honest. The only way I’ve ever been able to solve one of these babies was to pull off all the stickers and paste all the colours back together on each side.

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Well this is embarrassing, Robert Kiyosaki has filed for corporate bankruptcy after being ordered to pay out almost $24 million following a US court ruling.

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“The Zuma family will continue to pay for upgrades in Nkandla which are not linked to state security”, the Presidency said yesterday.

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Yesterday, about 400 miners at the Nkaneng informal settlement in Photsaneng near Rustenburg resulted to violence in order to voice their frustrations. In the process, a man was burned to death, and another was shot dead. Several security guards were also assualted by strikers.

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Yesterday, a metro police officer was gunned down in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Mpumelelo Xakekile was shot by two men at the intersection of Mew Way and Lansdowne Road while issuing a fine to minibus taxi driver.

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Sepp Blatter is no-one’s favourite guy, but his Goal project – started in 1999 – has funded 600 projects in 199 member associations. Artificial pitches, association HQ’s, training centres have all been built totally on Fifa’s dime. How many projects have we got funded? Zero.

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Following the press junket for their new movie, “Seven Psychopaths,” Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell and Sam Rockwell sat down with website Screen Junkies. They spoke a little of the new film, but mostly gave us some great insight into redneck culture.

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An American ad agency, together with the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, have thrown down the gauntlet to the giants of the soft drink industry with a controversial new three-and-a-half minute video that looks at the health risks of the overconsumption of sugary, carbonated drinks.

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1time CEO Blacky Komani recently said that his airline owed Acsa as much as R130 million. As part of cost cutting measures, the company will now retrench 15% of its workforce.

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Fatty Boom Boom is a track on the second Die Antwoord album, Ten$Ion. It is also the third song from the CD that has been made into a music video.

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Paying off student loans is never easy, even more so when decent-paying jobs are few and far between. Which is exactly what drove two British students to turn their faces into marketing and advertising real estate.

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It would be safe to deduce that Prince Harry’s adventures in Las Vegas and the happy snaps to go with it would have given the city of sin some good publicity. Exactly how much though? The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority crunched some numbers and have come up with a number.

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Just yesterday we reported on the fact that Apple Maps had exposed a Taiwanese military facility, now, using information contained in a Navy SEAL’s book, someone found a satellite image on Bing depicting what is surely the training facility used for the assault on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.

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A Russian court today ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich should be freed because guards threw her out of Moscow’s main cathedral before she could even remove her guitar from its case to play in protest of Vladimir Putin.

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About 50 000 demonstrators defied a ban on protests yesterday in Greece to voice their displeasure with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She is currently in the country to meet with Greek leaders who are searching for a new package of budget cuts. They need this in order to secure bail-out funds – largely underwritten by the German taxpayer.

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Following Trevor Noah’s spot on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno earlier this year, another South African has appeared as a guest on the popular American talkshow. Yesterday Oscar Pistorius sat down for an interview and spoke to Leno about his gold medal-winning experience at the 2012 Paralympics.

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How would you get the rather hard to get hold of Tom Hanks on to your podcast? Money? Women? Wine? A song perhaps? Nope, the correct answer is a 1934 Smith Corona typewriter.

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Revolutionary hero, and centerpiece for countless t-shirts and flags, Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s handwritten diary, from the year leading up to his death, has been released online. This is the first time a broad audience will have access to the unedited text.

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If you’ve ever been to Scotland, or seen Braveheart, you’ll know that the Scots and the English aren’t the best of friends. Scotland currently operates under its own set of laws, and has a devolved government in Edinburgh, but it is now looking at making things a little more permanent.

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A Chinese blogger who goes by the alias of “Blue Cat Polytheistic Religion Founder 07”, has apologised for saying he planned to kill Roger Federer.

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“R16 000 [a month] is nothing! It’s peanuts!” These were some of the statements made by Julius Malema yesterday. He was speaking to miners at the Beatrix Mine in Meloding, Free State. This was his first public appearance after being granted bail on a charge of money laundering last month.

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This past weekend, multiple gold medal winning Olympian Michael Phelps made waves in a different arena. Phelps was competing in the Pro-Am Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrew’s, in Scotland, when he set a new world record for the longest televised putt, ever.

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Apple Maps is in hot water yet again, this time not because some poor guy tried to get to Constantia and ended up in Turkey, but rather for revealing sensitive military information. Taiwanese authorities have asked Apple to take Google’s lead, and rather post low-res pics of sensitive places.

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I’d be lying if I said we didn’t see this coming. I thought it might end up being a kinky skin flick (if it isn’t already), but as it turns out, Hollywood has embraced the latest in mom-erotica. The sexy (and bondage-filled) adventures of billionaire Christian Grey and literature student Anastasia Steel are heading to the silver screen.

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The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has warned that simply following a high-protein, high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet is not advisable.

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A 20m bronze sculpture of a naked pregnant woman, wielding a sword, by well-known artist Damien Hirst has arrived in Devon in England.

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Forget all the silly idea you may have about marching band members. I would become a fan of American Football if I got to see this at half-time. Hell, I’d even get into rugby if we had something similar.

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The people over at sex.com have decided to open their wallets in a bid to distribute Hulk Hogan’s now infamous sex tape – described online as “a fucking masterpiece.” Why wouldn’t they, with the tape featuring a suntanned bleached-blond with huge boobies, and a woman.

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