Businessmen To Testify About Malema’s Tax Affairs – An inquiry into suspected tax evasion by allies and benefactors of embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will begin this week with about 30 high-profile businessmen testifying. [timeslive]
Dutch Prime Minister Resigns – Prime Minister Mark Rutte met the Dutch queen on Monday afternoon and tendered his government’s resignation after talks on austerity collapsed at the weekend. [cnbc]
North Korea Vows To Turn Seoul To Ashes – North Korea’s military Monday threatened “special actions” soon to turn parts of the South Korean capital to ashes, accusing Seoul’s conservative government of defaming its leadership. The North has for months been criticising the South’s President Lee Myung-Bak in extreme terms and threatening “sacred war” over perceived insults. [afp]
One In Four JHB Drivers Asked For Bribe – One in four Johannesburg drivers paid a bribe to traffic police in 2010, Corruption Watch executive director David Lewis said on Monday. [news24]
Rolling Stones Biopic In Production – A new biopic based on the English rock band The Rolling Stones is being made. The film will focus on the tumultuous relationship between band members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as they recorded The Rolling Stones` 1972 double album, `Exile on Main Street`, reported Contactmusic. [zeenews]
Facebook Drops $550 Million On Microsoft Patents – Facebook’s $550 million deal to buy hundreds of former AOL patents from Microsoft may give it an upper hand in the company’s intellectual property fight with Yahoo. [nytimes]
Inside Microsoft: A Rebel Tells All – In this recent TechCrunch article, the author tells of his 5 years at Microsoft, before he got fired. He paints a picture of a lot of people with a lot of titles, ticking boxes and churning out rubbish. [techcrunch]
Japanese Tsunami Soccer Ball Makes Its Way To The United States – A Japanese teenager has identified himself as the owner of a soccer ball that washed up on an Alaska beach last week – the first traceable debris to arrive in the United States from last year’s tsunami. [msnbc]
Bank Chiefs In Talks With ANC On Plans For Economy – South Africa’s bank CEOs have met the African National Congress economic transformation committee to raise their concerns about the party’s economic policy discussion documents. [businessday]
Meet The Internet Hall Of Fame Inductees – The Internet was awarded its own Hall of Fame on Monday — with a slew of inductees that have had a profound impact on the early stages of the web. A total of 33 visionaries will be among the first to be inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in Geneva, Switzerland. [mashable]
Scientists Finally Work Out Brain Freeze – Most people have likely experienced brain freeze — the debilitating, instantaneous pain in the temples after eating something frozen — but researchers didn’t really understand what causes it, until now. [livescience]
Is This The World’s Most Beautiful Woman? – The ratio of the distance between her ears to the distance between her pupils is nearly 2:1 — the scientific ideal. Furthermore, the distance between her eyes to her mouth is just under a third of the distance from her hairline to her chin — another measure of perfect pulchritude. [gawker]
As Google Drive Gets Real, Rivals Prep For Invasion – The long-rumored Google Drive cloud storage service is expected to be launching this week, and if one seemingly credible launch partner leak is not enough to back that this is the real deal, rivals’ preemptive strikes seem to support that it’s coming. [wired]
White Killer Whale Spotted – First Time In The Wild – Scientists have made what they believe to be the first sighting of an adult white orca, or killer whale. The adult male, which they have nicknamed Iceberg (good name), was spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. [bbc]
Princess Charlene Chops Her Hair Off – Princess Charlene has let go of her locks. The former South African swimmer was spotted at the final match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters on Sunday sporting a short, slick haircut. [channel24]
Lindsay Lohan Confirmed For Liz Taylor Role – After months of negotiations, Lifetime has signed Lindsay Lohan to portray Elizabeth Taylor in Liz & Dick. The biopic chronicling the enduring love of movie icons Taylor and Richard Burton, whose fiery romance was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day. [deadline]
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