Happy Birthday Madiba! - Former president Bill Clinton hailed his close ties with Nelson Mandela before visiting the anti-apartheid icon’s home in his childhood village ahead of his 94th birthday today. [nation] [image from twitter]

Woodpecker Fossil Named For Mandela - The science world has added an unusual tribute to the long list of accolades bestowed on Nelson Mandela, naming a prehistoric woodpecker after South Africa’s first black president, who turns 94 today. [afp]

Top Tour de France Cyclist Tests Positive For Banned Substance - Frank Schleck, who finished third in last year’s Tour de France, is out of the Tour after providing the first positive test of this year’s race. [telegraph]

Sanyati CEO Lifts Lid On The Chaos That Sank His Firm – SA has systemic corruption and incompetence in provincial and municipal government, particularly in the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo, former CEO of soon-to-be-liquidated civil engineering and construction company Sanyati Holdings, says. [businessday]

Kim Jong Un Finally Secures Total Power - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been given the title of ”marshal”, state media has announced. Marshal is the highest military rank and would cement Mr Kim’s control over the army, reports say. [bbc]

Passengers Trapped For Hours On Gautrain – Passengers travelling south from Centurion to Midrand were trapped for hours on the train, which had its doors closed and little ventilation, according to Marzanne de Villiers, a regular commuter. [timeslive]

Dead Model’s Pics Used In Glamour Magazine’s Fashion Spread – It has been almost 3 years after the death of model Daul Kim, but that didn’t stop Glamour from featuring the deceased model in their latest August issue. [examiner]

Coke Worth R24m Seized At Cape Harbour - Twenty blocks of cocaine with an estimated street value of R24m have been seized at Cape Town Harbour, Western Cape police said on Tuesday. [news24]

Next iPhone to Slim Down - Apple’s next iPhone, currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, will use a new technology that makes the smartphone’s screen thinner, people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. technology giant strives to improve technological features amid intensifying competition from Samsung and other rivals. [wallstreetjournal]

George W. Bush: “8 Years Was Awesome. I Was Famous And Powerful” (VIDEO) - George W. Bush had some surprising things to say about being president. “Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful. But I have no desire for fame and power anymore,” he said in an interview with the Hoover Institute, a conservative American think tank. [globalpost]

Cableway Closes For Two Weeks For Annual Maintenance – Table Mountain Cableway will be closed for annual maintenance from Monday 23 July to Sunday 5 August. The Cableway is required to do annual maintenance to meet the highest global cableway standards set by the Swiss Governing Body for Cableways (BAV). [tablemountain]

Inside Suri’s Posh Catholic School [Photos] – Suri Cruise will be following in the steps of Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton and several other famous faces when she joins a New York Catholic girls academy this autumn. The six-year-old is expected to begin classes at Manhattan’s Convent of the Sacred Heart School on September 6. [dailymail]

Paramedics Carry Guns Now - Facing the threat of violence daily , paramedics are now arming themselves so that they can get on with the business of saving people’s lives. This emerged yesterday during a judgment in the case of two men accused of raping two paramedics in Roodepoort, on the West Rand, in 2010. Stunning. [timeslive]

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They Found Another Nazi! – The world’s most wanted Nazi war criminal — who helped send 15,700 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz — has been tracked down. [thesun]

HSBC Compliance Head David Bagley Quits In Wake Of Damning Senate Report - Committee chairman says HSBC’s culture was ‘pervasively polluted’ after bank admitted it failed to act on money laundering. [guardian]

Romney’s Wealth Did Concern McCain – John McCain’s top campaign strategist in 2008 says that Mitt Romney’s much-discussed tax returns were not the reason that the Republican candidate chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, but he did acknowledge that Romney’s wealth played a factor in the decision. [huffpo]

It’s Official: Social Media Users Happier With Google+ Than With Facebook - As ubiquitous as Facebook is, it turns out a lot of people don’t actually like using the social network giant. On the other hand, users are giving Google+ a warmer reception than they did before. [wired]

Kris Humphries Takes A Swipe At Kanye West – Basketball player Kris Humphries has hit back at Kanye West after reportedly signing a two-year contract with the Brooklyn Nets. [femalefirst]

Man Uses Own Obituary To Confess To A Life Of Lies – Friends and family of Val Patterson learned Sunday that the man they thought held a doctorate from the University of Utah received the degree thanks to a paperwork mistake and that he never even graduated. Read the rest – it’s radical. [newser]

No Doubt Releases New Album – It’s been more than a decade since No Doubt last released an album, but that all changes when Push and Shove drops September 25th. If you can’t wait until then, check out the new video for the first single, “Settle Down.” [rollingstone]

Verashni Pillay: Whites Truly Not Welcome? – Verashni Pillay reflects on quota systems, interrogating the dearth of white people in SA’s civil service – and whether we need them there at all. [mail&guardian]

David Lynch Designs Dom Perignon Bottles – Filmaker David Lynch has collaborated with Dom Perignon to create signature bottle and package designs for their Vintage 2003 and Rosé Vintage 2000. [luxuo]

Adriana Lima To Become First Pregnant Model In Naked Pirelli Calendar – Adriana Lima is a veteran of the Pirelli Calendar, the annual calendar shoot featuring the world’s top models in various states of undress. But the 2013 edition will be different for Lima: the Brazilian model is posing naked… while pregnant. [ohnotheydidnt]

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