Malema’s Trust Fund Is For Charity – Apparently – The African National Congress Youth League on Monday alleged the Ratanang family trust is no secret and is used solely to fund charitable causes supported by its president Julius Malema. [mail&guardian]
Malema Goes To Ground – ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has gone underground as pressure continued to mount about how he funds his lavish lifestyle. The DA yesterday wrote to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela asking her to investigate Malema, and AfriForum has opened a criminal case against him. [timeslive]
Norway Killer Was On Watch List - The man accused of killing at least 76 people in a shooting massacre and car bombing in Norway had been on an intelligence watch list since March, according to reports. The Norwegian newspaper VG Nett claims Anders Behring Breivik had been put on the list after illegally buying large amount of chemicals online from a Polish retailer. [skynews]
Blackberry Cutting 2,000 Jobs – Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphones and tablet, said Monday that it will cut its workforce by about 2,000 jobs and move some executives into new roles in an effort to battle the continued growth of Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone. [latimes]
Kate Middleton’s Old Wheels For Sale – Guess not everything Kate Middleton touches turns to sold. Just most things. Earlier this month, an opportunistic enterprising young Brit decided to put the duchess’ pre-royal wheels—a 2001 VW Golf in, naturally, royal blue—up for auction, with a starting bid of just under $33,000. [eonline]
Esquire Magazine Makes Joke About DSK Rape, Fails – Esquire magazine got itself into a heap of trouble on Monday with a shocking tweet that joked about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case. On the same day that Strauss-Kahn’s accuser spoke publicly for the first time about the allegations she has made against the former IMF chief, Esquire tweeted this link.. [huffers]
Norway Killer’s Father Doesn’t Dig His Son - In an interview at his home in southern France, Mr Breivik, 76, said: “I don’t feel like his father. How could he just stand there and kill so many innocent people and just seem to think that what he did was OK?” He told the Swedish newspaper Expressen: “He should have taken his own life, too. That’s what he should have done.” [telegraph]
Then And Now: The Most Visited Domains In 1996 Compared To Now – This week, comScore pulled data from 1996 and found the most visited domains. Most were search engines, university websites, and pornography. Some of the companies no longer exist. Others, like Yahoo!, are still around but have fallen in the rankings. [bizinsider]
New York Gay Wedding Opponents Sue - Opponents of New York’s gay marriage law filed the first lawsuit challenging the measure, an anticipated salvo that came Monday as dozens of same-sex couples exchanged vows in a group ceremony overlooking Niagara Falls a day after the first gay weddings. [bherald]
Amy Winehouse Funeral Takes Place Today - The funeral of British pop diva Amy Winehouse, who was found dead at her London home on Saturday, will take place on Tuesday and will be limited to family and close friends, a spokesman for her family said this morning. [abc]
Amy Winehouse Autopsy Results ‘Inconclusive’ - The world will have to wait just a little longer to learn what killed “Back to Black” hitmaker Amy Winehouse. A post-mortem exam performed on the five-time Grammy Award winner failed to establish a formal cause of death, London officials said Monday, prompting authorities to await the results of further toxicology tests. They should chat to the dealer she bought Cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine from ,the night she died.. popcrunch]
Zim Man To Stand Trial For Mugabe Joke - Harare court officials on Monday ordered a 52-year-old Zimbabwean man to stand trial for allegedly telling a work colleague that President Robert Mugabe’s death was imminent in an apparent joke that misfired. [news24]
2011 US Air Guitar Champion Is Crowned – “There will be rock. There will be roll. There will be no guitars, but there will be Thunder.” So reads the bio of Nordic Thunder, also known as Justin Howard, who in a raucous display of imitation musicianship and full-on showmanship was crowned the 2011 U.S. Air Guitar Champion. [huffpo]
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