Ahoy! Gaddafi Accepts Peace Roadmap, According To Zuma – Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday after leading a delegation of African leaders at talks in Tripoli. “I have some commitment which is compelling me to leave now, but we have completed our mission with […]
SA Photographer Taken Hostage In Libya – A South African photographer who worked at The Star newspaper, Anton Hammerl, has been taken hostage by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the GlobalPost news site reported on Thursday. Hammerl was taken hostage with three other foreign journalists while reporting on the outskirts of Brega. [news24] […]
Coca-Cola Drops Rooney – Wayne Rooney’s foul-mouthed tirade has cost him roughly R7 Million, as Coca-Cola have pulled their partnership with the Man United ginger-ninja. Rooney, a mere child at 25, was seen by millions screaming the F-word into a camera after scoring a dramatic hat-trick against West Ham. I can relate – once I […]
Ferrari Reveals The World’s Most Expensive Book – Supercar maker Ferrari has published the world’s most expensive new BOOK – which costs a mind-boggling £155,000. The diamond-encrusted ‘Official Ferrari Opus Enzo Diamante’ costs £10,000 more than the company’s cheapest car, the 193mph California. Just one copy will be sold in each country worldwide, making it […]
Charlie Sheen Gets Standing Ovation At Second Show – fter being heckled and booed in Detroit, Charlie Sheen made some changes to his road show Sunday night – and this time, it ended with a standing ovation. Sheen used a talk show-style format at his Chicago show, with a master of ceremonies asking the actor […]
India Wins Cricket World Cup – Not even Hollywood’s DreamWorks studios could have dreamt up a more fitting final to a dramatic world tournament than Saturday’s tense clash between two of the finest cricketing nations in the world – India and Sri Lanka – climaxing in a towering six and more than a billion delirious […]
2oceansvibe Broadcasting Live From Table Mountain Today -2oceansvibe Radio’s premier show is broadcasting live from the lofty heights of Table Mountain today! Hint: It has something to do with liberating one fortunate Capetonian from the hell of Friday afternoon work hours. Tune in for all the fun! [2ovFM] Ballem Asked To Stand Down – The […]
Murdoch’s Youngest Son Primed As Successor – James Murdoch is moving from London to New York to become deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation. Murdoch Jr will also become chairman and chief executive of News Corp’s international businesses, retaining his responsibilities for Europe and Asia. The move confirms that the youngest of Rupert Murdoch’s three […]
Spot the axe murderer Ex-Blue Bull held for axe murders – The 34-year-old suspect, who’d played for the Blue Bulls in both the Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup, was arrested at a home in Durban. Police refused to name him. The team investigating the murders in Umbilo, Lamontville and Yellow Wood Park confiscated an axe […]
Is Gaddafi Going To Pull A Great Escape? Italy Plots Escape Route For Gaddafi – Efforts appear to be under way to offer Muammar Gaddafi a way of escape from Libya, with Italy saying it was trying to organise an African haven for him, and the US signalling it would not try to stop the […]
Elizabeth Taylor Artwork Discovered – Vanity Fair is proud to offer the exclusive first image of a lost masterwork recently discovered in a cellar of the building formerly occupied by Chasen’s restaurant in West Hollywood, California: Elizabeth Taylor Ascending to Heaven Accompanied by the Angels Michael Jackson and Richard Burton, artist unknown, date unknown (circa early […]
LOL, OMG And ♥ Added To The Oxford Dictionary – The stalwart bastion of language, the Oxford English Dictionary, will now include ♥ and LOL as real words worthy of etymological recording. Other words added include the formidable OMG. As they say, ‘words” like these “are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications,” and have […]
While walking is not always the most practical way of getting around, with troublesome Mercury turning retrograde in a few days’ time, you may want to try staying off trains, planes and other forms of mechanical transport for a little while. As evidenced by a tragic public transport collision in China earlier today.
That’s How Gaddafi Rolls.. How To Become One Of Gaddafi’s Virgin Bodyguards – Moammar Gaddafi counts on protection from a unique bodyguard corps he’s been training for decades — an all-female, gun-toting posse of virgins. About 40 lipsticked, bejeweled bodyguards surround the Libyan dictator at all times. They wear designer sunglasses and high heels with their […]
Silvio Berlusconi Rocks The ‘Bunga Bunga’ Parties Highly Anticipated Pictures From Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘Bunga Bunga’ Parties Emerge – This “policewoman” is among the first photographs to emerge from Silvio Berlusconi’s infamous “bunga bunga” parties.. The pictures were discovered on laptops and cameras seized by prosecutors from dozens of female guests as part of their investigation […]
Cyril Beeka Killed In Drive-by Shooting [image:news24] Underworld Boss Cyril Beeka, Killed – Alleged underworld boss Cyril Beeka was gunned down in what appears to have been an assassination in Cape Town Monday night. Cape Town police were hesitant about giving details of the shooting, shortly after 5pm in Modderdam Road, Belville, but have confirmed […]
Sharpville, A Crime That Still Echoes – More than fifty years ago, a massacre shocked the world and proved beyond doubt the inherent monstrosity of the apartheid system. It may have taken another 30 years for it to fall, but it was Sharpeville that first made its ultimate destruction inevitable. “As the police emerged to […]
Aristide Buggers Off And Tells Everyone Else (Obama In Particular) To Do The Same – The US did everything except stamp its foot and declare it forbidden, but nothing was going to stop Jean-Bertrand Aristide from leaving Johannesburg on Thursday night. Not the prospect of his mere presence throwing his country into chaos, and certainly […]
Predictable Shaik A Free Man – Shabir Shaik is a free man. A parole supervision committee investigation yesterday cleared him of assaulting a man at a mosque in Durban. He has also been cleared of violating his parole conditions. Correctional Services regional commissioneer Mnikelwa Nxele said there was no evidence to support the allegation of […]
1 X Miracle Miracle As Baby Is Found In Japan Rubble – A four-month old baby girl dressed in a pink snow suit has been found in the ruins of a home in earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Japan – 72 hours after the disaster hit. She was rescued from the rubble of her devastated town of […]
Another Explosion – Radiation Increases – Nuclear Disaster Warnings – Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire spewed large amounts of radioactive material into the air. In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned that […]
Tsunami Survivor – 10 Miles Out At Sea Tsunami Survivor Found 10 Miles Out At Sea – A 60-year-old man has been found on the roof of his floating house nearly 10 miles out at sea, two days after the tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan. Hiromitsu Shinkawa must have resigned himself to […]
The honeymoon, she is over.. Tsvangirai Wants Divorce From Mugabe – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for a “divorce” from his national unity government colleague President Robert Mugabe. Mr Tsvangirai organised a news conference after his ally, Energy Minister Elton Mangoma, was arrested. He said the relationship between the parties had broken down and called […]
Helen Zille – not impressed.. Helen Zille Phone-Tap Spy Scandal – Western Cape Premier Helen Zille insisted on Wednesday (her 60th birthday) that her telephone calls were once being monitored by the National Intelligence Agency. “On January 8 2008 at 6.20 am, my husband Johann answered the phone on the desk in my study,” Zille said. “He […]
Go science! Urethras Can Now Be Made In The Lab – And They Work – Growing tissue outside the body and then making it work inside the body is an effort still in its infancy. But look at this! Researchers at Wake Forest University in the US have successfully taken tissue from five boys who […]
Jay’s pad.. Great Gatsby Mansion To Be Torn Down – It could be a tragic ending for this mansion. The Sands Point, L.I., mansion that was said to be author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for his legendary novel “The Great Gatsby” is about to be demolished, Newsday reported. After sitting on the market at $30 million, the […]
Phil Collins Quits Music – His back hurts from a dislocated vertebra. He’s lost some of his hearing. Nerve damage makes it hard for him to hold his drumsticks. The decades of rock and roll have taken their toll on Phil Collins – both from the wear-and-tear on his body and the pain from the constant […]
Is This Banksy? Is This Bansky? – His film Exit Through The Gift Shop was nominated for best documentary at the Oscars. But while those hoping to see Banksy at the ceremony would have been left disappointed, drivers in California this week caught a glimpse of a man believed to be the reclusive graffiti artist. Exactly who […]
Is Robert Mugabe next? Zimbabwe Uprising: Is Robert Mugabe Next? – Internet campaigns calling for protests against the 31-year rule of President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday did not lead to any mass gatherings in Zimbabwe, where police have threatened to crush any “Egypt-style” protests. The two campaigns, on Facebook and Twitter, were trying to start popular […]
It’s Show Time! Soldiers and dozens of tanks from the Libyan military’s elite Khamis Brigade, led by Gadhafi’s youngest son Khamis Gadhafi, take positions on Monday about 6 miles outside Zawiya. US Troops Get Ready To Enter Libya – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi were massed near the Tunisian border on Tuesday and […]