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Robert Mugabe “Fighting For His Life” In Singapore Hospital
10 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After decades of fighting innocent and unarmed civilians, Robert Mugabe is now reportedly battling with death in a Singapore hospital. Confidential info released by WikiLeaks last month said Mugabe has prostate cancer that has spread to other organs. According to the report, he was also urged by his physician to step down in 2008, but had ignored the advice.
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Kony 2012 Part II: Beyond Famous [VIDEO]
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The long-awaited sequel to the Kony 2012 viral video has finally arrived, and although it’s different, it’s much of the same. Click through for the video.
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Young Butchered Mammoth Discovered In Siberia
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A juvenile mammoth – nicknamed “Yuka” – was found entombed in Siberian ice near the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and shows signs of being cut open by ancient people. The frozen carcass is believed to be at least 10 000 years old – and could prove to be the first mammoth carcass revealing signs of human interaction in the region.
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Microsoft Kits Out A ’67 Mustang With Windows 8 & X-Box Kinect [VIDEO]
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Microsoft wants you to notice them too – which is why they’ve rolled out a Ford Mustang fitted with Kinect sensors, two Windows 8 tablets, projection screens, and a couple of other neat toys as a proof-of concept to inspire developers to build applications and automotive technologies with Microsoft in mind.
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300 Pit Bulls Saved From Dogfighting Farm In Philippines [PICS]
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Over the weekend, roughly 300 dogs were rescued from secret woodland kennels just south of Manila. They were part of an illegal online gambling operation in which players outside the Philippines bet on dogs fighting at a clandestine compound. But this is not the animals’ happy ending, as many of them are too injured or too wild to rehabilitate.
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Driver Jailed For Attempting To Mow Pedestrians Down With Car [VIDEO]
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A driver in the UK has been jailed after trying to run a group of pedestrians over “like skittles.” The group of people had apparently “been mocking him” as he drew up at a junction. So he did what any sane person would do in such a situation by turning his car into an 80km/h motorised battering ram. Video after the jump.
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Russian Daredevil Free-Climbs Moscow Tower [VIDEO]
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russian daredevil Tyomka Pirniazov free-climbed up to the ornate Soviet star on top of the 200 metre tall, Stalin-era Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building in Moscow. Which is made a little more impressive by the fact that he spent the duration of the climb with a camera clenched in his mouth.
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Zimbabwe Suspends Weddings Indefinitely
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zimbabwe has suspended all weddings indefinitely – reportedly in an effort to curb corruption and fraud. The ban on matrimony was revealed by the state-run Herald newspaper, SW Radio Africa reported yesterday.
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Tornadoes Toss 18-Wheel Trucks And Cricket Ball-Sized Hail [VIDEO]
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, between six and 12 tornadoes hit Dallas County, Texas, throughout the day. That estimate alone is enough reason to rejoice that twisters are not a regular phenomenon in South Africa. Add to the equation that they’re powerful enough to fling 18-wheeler trucks like toys, and you’ve got a legitimate reason to break into song and dance down the main street.
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Church Apologises After Porn Pops Up During Priest’s School Presentation
03 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The Catholic Church in Ireland has apologized after gay porn popped up on screen during a PowerPoint presentation by a priest at a primary school. Father Martin McVeigh was presenting a talk for parents in preparation for their kids’ First Holy Communion. But when he inserted a flash disk into his computer, images of man to man action popped up on screen.
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Watch The Trailer For The ‘Total Recall’ Remake [VIDEO]
03 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I was all set to hate the Colin-Farrell-starring remake of 1990’s Total Recall (which had Arnold Schwarzenegger portray an amnesiac freedom fighter from Mars) – but it actually looks pretty rad! Flying cars, memory implants, and Jessica Biel are all things that make good movies good. Take a look.
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Violence Erupts In Europe Following Anti-Capitalism Protests [VIDEO]
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Saturday, demonstrators across Europe took to the streets to partake in a day of protest against capitalism. The proceedings, which started peacefully, took a turn for worse soon after they began when protestors began clashing with local law-enforcement. Click through for the video.
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Round-Up Of 2012’s Better April Fools’ Jokes
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
April Fool pranks played by people tend to be either cruel or embarrassing. April Fool pranks played by tech companies, however, are charming and endearing attempts at being funny for one day every year – and this year’s haul of PR stunts is actually pretty good. Check them out after the jump.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Secures Myanmar Parliamentary Seat
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nobel Peace laureate, Aung Sun Suu Kyi has hailed “the beginning of a new era” in Myanmar’s (also known as Burma) politics after her party claimed a spectacular 43 out of 44 parliamentary seats in a historic by-election yesterday.
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Unemployment Rates In Eurozone Continue To Climb – Spain’s Figures Hit The Roof
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re looking for a job, don’t even think seeking your fortune in Europe. Unemployment rates across the Eurozone – the countries which use the euro – continue to climb and in February were at their highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999. Spain has been worst hit, with the unemployment rate amongst its under-25 population rising to an alarming 50.5% in February.
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New Legislation Makes The UK Big Brother
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So! The British Home Office announced yesterday that new legislation will soon allow the government to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of every single person in the UK. The Home Office then had to clarify that, no, this was not some sort of elaborate April Fools prank.
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Qatar’s Police Force Rolls Out A Fleet Of Porsches [VIDEO]
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, it must be nice having the second-highest GDP per capita in the world, like Qatar does. That way you can afford to kit out your police force with an entire fleet of deeply sexy Porsche and VW vehicles, which you can send out on parades whenever you feel like it. Like in this insane video.
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SA Art Brings In Big Money At London Auction
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canvasses by lauded South African artists such as Irma Stern, William Kentridge, Gerard Sekoto and Francois Krige fetched over R3.5 million at an auction at Bonhams of London last week, highlighting a significant appreciation of interest in work by South African artists. We’ve got the full list of big sellers after the jump!
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Apple Mac Users Warned Of Computer Virus Risks
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Computer viruses are mostly a headache reserved for PC and Windows users. But with Apple becoming more popular globally in recent years, so has the numbers of hackers with wet dreams of corrupting its operating system. Read more about a new pair of Trojan viruses – with the ability to infiltrate Macs – after the jump.
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Ex-Goldman Exec, Greg Smith, Secures $1,5 Million Deal To Write Book
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Greg has done it. He is now earning more than he would have been earning if he hadn’t exposed the rotten core of ethical detachment at Goldman Sachs. There was a bidding war for the rights to publish Greg’s memoir, and a division of the Hachette Book Group, Grand Central, outbid Penguin to get them.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Invokes “Absolute Immunity,” In Civil Suit
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently charged for involvement in a prostitution ring, is also being accused of raping a hotel housekeeper – and since he seems to be losing that whole prostitution thing, he’s had his lawyers try to dismiss the case because his former position as head of the International Monetary Fund gives him “absolute immunity.”
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Astonishing Story Of Young Malawian Who Saved His Family With A Homemade Windmill [VIDEO]
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Check out this short documentary about a young Malawian called William Kamkwamba who built a windmill out of scraps and saved his family, and then ultimately his village, when famine and destitution threatened to destroy them. Real African success stories like this are hard to find, and this one is nothing short of extraordinary.
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Turkcell Sues MTN For $4,2 Billion
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Well, this doesn’t look good: Turkcell is suing MTN for $4,2 billion. Turkcell has decided to act on its claims that MTN bribed officials, arranged meetings between Iranian and South African leaders, and promised Iran weapons as well as UN votes, all in exchange for a licence to offer cellphone services in Iran.
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Amazing Shots Of Afghanistan-Bound U.S. Army Servicemen Flying Off To War [PICS]
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Check out this amazing gallery of shots taken of U.S. Servicemen about to ship out to serve in Afghanistan. Despite the risks, and the promises that the U.S. and NATO role in the conflict is due to end within two years, hundreds of troops are being shipped into Afghanistan each month to help secure the civilian population and the post-Taliban government there.
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Everyone Panic, There’s Officially An Unfollow Bug On Twitter!
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Cue mass hysteria, Twitter has officially confirmed what many have suspected for some time, there’s a bug that causes twitter users to randomly unfollow people. It’s doubtful whether society will be able to function normally without their precious social media and in all likelihood this is the first sign of the impending apocalypse.
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Elite Police Marksmen Investigated Over Controversial Photo [PIC]
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Three officers have been kicked out of the police’s firearms unit in the UK. This after a controversial photo was found on a computer during a raid on another officer’s home. It depicts one of the guys pointing his shotgun at another, who poses on the bonnet of an armoured Land Rover Defender with his finger on his mouth like a pin-up girl.
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Spike Lee Accidentally Terrorizes Innocent Elderly Couple
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An blog post allegedly featuring the residential address of George Zimmerman – the man who killed Trayvon Martin – has gone viral. The post went viral after it was retweeted by Spike Lee to his 250 000 followers. Unfortunately, the address actually belongs to an innocent elderly couple, who now live in fear.
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Public Protector Appeals To MP’s Over Info Bill
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the public protector, Thuli Madonsela, wouldn’t outwardly say that the current tabulation of the Protection of Information Bill was unconstitutional, she did say MP’s could be spared the embarrassment of having it declared invalid by the courts if they rethought certain aspects of the bill.
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Danny MacAskill’s Competition Is Here. Meet Andrew Dickey [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Regular readers will be aware that we’ve been ardent fans of Danny MacAskill here at 2oceansVibe for years. We are now however proud to present to you an Australian, Andrew Dickey, who could arguably be as good as Danny. You’ll enjoy his skills.
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New York City To Make Offensive Words Like “Dinosaur” And “Birthday” Extinct
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
The City of New York’s Education Department has issued a list of about 50 English words and topics that will no longer appear on standardised tests for fear of offending students’ sensibilities. Unfortunately for them, when you accommodate an entire world of cultures in a single city, students’ sensibilities become a very broad category to cover indeed! Full list of this insanity inside!
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