Friday Morning Spice

Murray Mania Grips Wimbledon - A dream semifinal pitching two of the game’s greatest ever players against each other is likely to be a tasty warm-up act for many of the fans in Centre Court on Friday as home favourite Andy Murray bids to reach a maiden Wimbledon final. Shame. They really are so hopeful. [Sport24]

Former Argentine Dictators Found Guilty Of Stealing Babies - Three decades ago, when a military junta ran the country of Argentina, the government ran a systematic program to take babies from leftist parents. Hundreds of babies are thought to have disappeared under the program. [CS Monitor]

Libya To Hold First Free Election in 60 Years On Saturday - Nearly three million Libyans have registered to vote in the country’s first multi-party election in 60 years, set for Saturday. They will choose among 1400 candidates for a 200-seat National Assembly that will form a temporary government and draft a constitution, leading to another election next year. [VOA News]

China’s Stocks Fall For Third Day As Banks Plunge On Rate Cut- China’s stocks fell for a third day, led by banks and energy producers, as the central bank’s second interest-rate cut in a month intensified concern that the economic slowdown is deepening. [Bloomberg]

Analysts Laud Vodacom Over Succession – Stock market analysts have praised outgoing Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys, saying the telecommunications operator flourished during his tenure and that his designated replacement, Shameel Joosub, is a sound choice to succeed him. The move is widely viewed as part of a carefully calibrated succession strategy and an indicator of a well-oiled corporate machine, analysts TechCentral polled on Thursday said. [Tech Central]

Apple Working On Resolving Crashing App Issue - Apple has responded to news of widespread problems with crashing iOS and Mac apps and has assured its developers that it is working to resolve the issue, according to various reports. Apps that received updates on or around July 4 in the US were crashing as soon as people tried using them, leading to user retaliation in a barrage of one-star ratings for the reviews of affected apps. [Brisbane Times]

Mdluli Suffers More Setbacks - In his second setback this week, Mdluli’s claims that some of the country’s top policemen were involved in a plot to unseat him were shot down by a special task team set up by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa. [TimesLive]

Virus Could Black Out Nearly 2,5 Computers - About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that US authorities shut down last November. [Hindustan Times]

Jobs Tapped 80′s French Gadget For Ideas - The man who turned Apple into a web-connected empire of consumer gadgets drew some of his inspiration from a table-top box that wired French households to networked information long before the arrival of mass internet, a French telecoms engineer says. [News24]

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Florida Shooter Zimmerman’s Bail Set at $1 Million – A Florida judge on Thursday granted bond a second time to George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, but set it at $1 million and expressed concern that Mr. Zimmerman was a flight risk. [WSJ]

The Movement To Ban McDonald’s, Coca-Cola From The London Olympics - Junk food giants McDonald’s and Coca-Cola could find themselves left at the starting blocks after the London Assembly voted to call for a ban on Olympic sponsors that produce high calorie food and beverages. Just over a month before London hosts the 2012 Olympics, the powerful elected body passed a motion urging the International Olympic Committee to adopt strict sponsorship criteria in a bid to outlaw advertising of products linked to child obesity. [Time]

Ditching Scientology – Good Luck With That - Leaving a highly secretive and close-knit group like Scientology might not be as easy as checking the “irreconcilable differences” box. Since news broke that Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, her husband of nearly six years, speculation has been rampant that she wants out of Scientology—and she wants to take daughter Suri with her. [Daily Beast]

Plans To Tax Coachella Suspended - An Indio City Council member who created an uproar when he suggested a new ticket tax on the hugely popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival backed away from his proposal Thursday. Councilman Sam Torres’ concept of a 5-to-10 percent admission tax this week generated intense speculation that the festival, which started in 1999, would leave the small desert city for more financially friendly digs. [CNBC]