Poor Gordon Brown. He was due to hold a press conference on Wednesday to discuss his role as the UN special envoy for global education, but only one journalist decided to go.

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Last week, we reported on a picture that appeared on The Citizen’s front page. It was an image of the recent suicide attack in Kabul. Shortly after the paper came out, Johann “Slang” Hattingh alerted the rest of us to the fact that the image was actually Photoshopped – leading to questions regarding the ethics of the journalism.

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Cheryl Carolus and six other SAA board members resigned yesterday, plunging the state-vested airline into yet more turmoil.

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See that guy on the right – looking like he’s moonwalking away from the truck? He is our latest addition to the 2oceansvibe Boss Hall of Fame. Believe it or not, he was actually driving the truck at the time of impact. So great are his boss skills, that even he seems baffled by his impressive escape. Do I even need to tell you that he’s Russian too?

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Nothing gets voters riled-up like some good ol’ celebrity endorsement, and who better to scare someone into voting than the original, badass action movie star, Samuel L. Jackson. In this short clip he urges Americans, quite literally, to “wake the fuck up”.

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Poor Tom Cruise. It seems he might be facing a crisis of faith because Scientology leaders are trying to force him to choose between his religion and his daughter.

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Remember Kim Dotcom? He is the hacker-turned-multimillionaire businessman, accused of costing the entertainment industry $500 million through pirated content uploaded to his popular file-sharing site, Megaupload – which was shut down earlier this year.

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The Mona Lisa, also known as La Giaconda or La Joconde in Italy and France, is arguably the most famous painting in the world. However, it may lose that title due to an earlier version which recently went on display in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Pics of Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, have gone viral after being posted on Facebook following “one almighty session” in Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning. Serendipitously bumping into members of a winning Gaelic football team on the streets of Dublin, Radcliffe’s evening took a turn for the blurry.

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Somehow SAA has managed to fail to produce its annual report on time – six months after its year-end. Its claiming it needs to address its “immediate financial challenges” before auditors can complete the financial statements.

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Today is the fourth day that approximately 20 000 workers across South Africa from the freight transport sector are on strike over wages. They rejected the latest offer of a staggered 9% increase, and asked for a 12% increase instead. They have promised to “bring the economy to its knees” if their demands are not met.

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In the first ever ‘shadow’ report, the provincial MEC, Dan Plato, has given more detail to Cape Town’s crime statistics, using information gathered from police reports and mortuaries. The biggest shock? A lot of 18 – 35 year-old Capetonians are getting stabbed, making up the majority of murder victims.

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Getting rid of a bad attack of hiccups can be a real bitch. You try everything – drinking a glass of water, holding your breath or counting back from 100 while jumping on one leg. A classic method is getting a friend to scare you suddenly. Pulling a gun on them should do the trick.

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Capitec today announced a 35 per cent rise in first-half profit for this year. It also said it planned to offer more than 14 million new shares at R160 each – a discount of more than 22 per cent on Tuesday’s closing price.

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Julius Malema appeared in the Polokwane Regional Court this morning, and was officially charged with money laundering. This after he allegedly “received proceeds from unlawful activities”. He was granted bail of R10 000.

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“The electronic management of health care through mobile devices” or, more simply, “mHealth” is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of […]

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Can you believe that Apple has just released its 93rd iPhone ad? That’s a lot, considering that the iPhone has only been around for five years. A lot of the focus of the iPhone 4S’s advertising was on Siri, making this new iteration of ads a refreshing return to basics.

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A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of the head of Google’s operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate.

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Embarrassing. That single word has made up a lot of the overall feedback received after RIM uploaded this video to their YouTube page yesterday. Aimed at developers, it aims to showcase all the cool new features of the Blackberry 10 – by having a couple of dads pretend to be rockstars.

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Always wanted to explore the Great Barrier Reef but couldn’t quite get the cash together? Don’t worry, good guy Google has it covered. Its latest Street View collection comes from beneath the waves of several famous diving spots and the results are nothing less than spectacular.

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It’s back! After its initial launch almost a decade ago, the grandaddy of social networks, MySpace, is set to make a comeback with a completely redesigned site and new interface which they’ve previewed in a brand new teaser video. The new site looks great and, as one would expect, is promising to be the next big thing, yet I foresee one slight problem: does anyone care?

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The iPhone 5 isn’t due for release in the Netherlands until Friday, but that didn’t stop Dutch website iPhone5.nl getting their paws on one before everyone else. Bestowed with this great honour, what better way to celebrate other than by gluing it to the sidewalk and secretly videotaping everyone who thinks they’ve just made the find of the century?

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Well, this isn’t good news for Greece, especially as they have to reduce that budget deficit before they can get the next tranche of cash that has been promised to them.

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A group of activists recently gatecrashed the retirement dinner of former HMRC boss, Dave Hartnett. They gained entrance to the event by pretending to be representatives from Vodafone and Goldman Sachs. Watch them present him with a fake award for his services to “corporate tax avoidance”. What makes it even funnier is the fact that it took a while before people realised they were being punked.

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A few days ago Green Day was performing at the I Heart Radio Festival in Las Vegas. Everything was going swimmingly until their 45 minute set was cut in half to give Usher and Rihanna more time to perform, the band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, was not impressed.

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It’s time to start getting a little worried, gang. Soon that Saturday morning English breakfast is going to be missing its most vital ingredient, and your bacon and egg roll will become nothing more than just an egg roll. It’s coming – the porkpocalypse.

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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said that Google has not yet submitted a new Google Maps application to Apple.

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During an interview on one of America’s biggest talk shows, The View, Barack Obama did an awesome job of securing female voters for the upcoming US elections. He was accompanied by his wife, Michelle. The episode will air today, and sees him flirt with his other half, bestowing gifts upon the hosts, and quipping: “I’ve been told I’m just eye candy here.”

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Every now and then I get sent some wine. I never tire of this. Even if the wine is insipid, badly labeled, and I have to get my panga out of storage to hack through the multi-layered coating of bubble wrap I am happy. I love free shit. I don’t care that I will probably chuck it away soon after opening; it’s the pure and simple joy of opening something that you know you didn’t pay for but is yours. This feeling lasts but a fleeting moment, but oh, it is sweet.

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Adriaan Basson, the assistant editor at City Press, announced a little while ago on Twitter that he had learnt that an arrest warrant for Julius Malema has been issued.

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