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 […]
Actors re-enact Scabir Shaik’s alleged assault of a female journalist Schabir Shaik Accused Of Throttling And Slapping Female Journalist – The Democratic Alliance on Sunday called for a full investigation into convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik’s alleged assault of a journalist on a golf course in Durban. The KwaZulu-Natal journalist was expected to open a case of […]
Natalie Portman Stars In New Dior Commercial – Black Swan star Natalie Portman features in a new TV ad for Christian Dior’s Miss Dior Chérie fragrance. Again directed by Sofia Coppola, this latest installment for the scent shows the Oscar nominee as her most French self, dressing up in Dior (bien sûr), lounging around a […]
Britain Borrows Jet From BP To Evacuate Citizens From Libya – Britain’s Foreign Office finally managed to load 300 Britons onto a plane at Tripoli, but only after it had borrowed the jet from BP. The plane the Government had intended to use to evacuate Britons waited on the runway at Gatwick airport for 10 hours […]
Yeah dude, I rock! Gadaffi Vows To Die A Martyr – Moammar Gadaffi vowed to die in Libya as a martyr in an angry tv address on Tuesday, as eastern regions had broken free from his rule in a burgeoning revolt. “I am not going to leave this land, I will die here as a martyr,” […]
Moammar Gadaffi Has Not Fled Libya Gadaffi Has Not Left Libya – Is Defiant In Face Of Rising Revolt – Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi appeared briefly on state television on Tuesday signalling his defiance in the face of a mounting revolt against his 41-year rule. In his first address since the protests started last week, he […]
Posh And Becks Crack The Nod To Royal Wedding – 1,900 Formal invitations to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding ceremony were sent out Wednesday and Thursday. Although most of the names were expected, there were a few notable surprises. Among the small handful of celebrities who reportedly received the gilded cards were David Beckham, Spice […]
World’s First Gay Beer World’s First Gay Beer Launches In Mexico – A small Mexican brewery has produced what it claims is the world’s first beer specifically targeted at the homosexual community. The beer, which has a slight honey flavour, will initially be marketed to homosexual consumers in Mexico, Colombia and Japan. The Minerva brewery […]
Muammar Gaddafi – Next to go? Libyan Riots – Is It Gaddafi’s Turn Now? – Hundreds of protesters have reportedly torched Libyan police outposts in the eastern city of Beyida, while chanting: “People want the end of the regime.” Demonstrators gathered in the early hours of Wednesday morning in front of Benghazi’s police headquarters and chanted […]