Monday Babalaz

5 Dead, 40 Injured As Stage Collapses In US – At least five people were killed and 40 injured when a stage structure collapsed at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The incident occurred late on Saturday night when a wind gust brought down the stage rigging prepared for a country music concert. Nobody was performing at the stage when the tragedy occurred. [telegraph]

Keegan Bradley Wins PGA Championship - A rally that ranks among the best. A collapse hardly anyone saw coming. There was even a guy in a red shirt Sunday, pumping his fists with each clutch putt in the final, frenzied hour of the PGA Champions

Tender Boss Paid Malema R1.2 Million – Julius Malema was paid R1.2-million by businessman Steve Bosch who scored tenders worth tens of millions of rands in Limpopo. This is the first proof to emerge confirming that tenderpreneurs in Malema’s home province finance the ANC Youth League leader’s lavish lifestyle, adding fuel to claims that he assists them in scoring government business. [timeslive]

Ruth Madoff Is Leaving Bernie - The wife of Bernard Madoff has severed ties with the disgraced Wall Street financier and not seen him for more than six months, it has been revealed. Ruth Madoff, who has been married to the convicted fraudster for 52 years, has shunned her high school sweetheart as she allegedly seeks reconciliation with her son. [dailymail]

Shrien Dewani Hires Top SA Legal Team – Confident that Papa Wag Vir Hom in South Africa, murder accused Shrien Dewani has hired a top South African legal firm to represent him. The law firm Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs was assembling a team of expert criminal lawyers to defend Dewani if and when he went on trial at the high court in Cape Town. [mail&guardian]

Beyonce Concert Sells Out In 22 Seconds - Beyoncé has sold out the first of her four-run New York City shows. Eager fans snatched up all of the tickets in under 30 seconds. She announced four shows in New York earlier this week, where she will perform her latest album, called “4.” The album entered Billboard’s 200 chart at number one, with 310,000 copies sold in its first week. Quite mean. [rtt]

V&A Waterfront Spraying Nerve Gas On Customers – The V&A Waterfront, in Cape Town, has been accused of poisoning patrons, including a six-year-old child, after it allowed a deadly, banned pesticide to be sprayed around a popular eatery and its public spaces this week. Now several customers have spoken of their horror after being caught in the spray drift of the pesticide and how they suffered severe headaches and nausea within minutes of being exposed. [argus]

George Soros Made His Gal Pal Sit at the Kids’ Table - A “friend” of George Soros says the 81-year-old Hungarian mogul used to make his Brazilian ex-girlfriend Adriana Ferreyr sit at the children’s table during his Sunday brunches in the Hamptons—ostensibly because she’s 28, which is very young. Very young if you’re 81 years old, anyway. [gawker]

Pakistan Shows China The Stealth Helicopter From Bin Laden Raid – In the days after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s intelligence service probably allowed Chinese military engineers to examine the wreckage of a stealth American helicopter that crashed during the operation, according to American officials and others familiar with the classified intelligence assessments. [nytimes]

Mexican Army Finds Drug Tunnel To US - The Mexican army says it has uncovered an incomplete drug tunnel with lights and ventilation that stretches from the border city of Tijuana 10 yards into the United States. Mexican army Gen. Alfonso Duarte says the tunnel is about 300 meters long and 6 feet in height. The entrance is hidden in a house under construction and the exit has not been dug. [usatoday]

Neo-Nazi Rock Fans Punk’d By T-Shirt - Rightwing rock fans at a nationalist music festival in eastern Germany were taken by surprise when souvenir T-shirts they were given were emblazoned with a secret anti-extremist message. The slogan on the shirts first read “hardcore rebels” along with a skull and nationalist flags. But once the T-shirts were washed, the tagline turned into a message from a group offering to help far-right extremists break away from the neo-Nazi scene. [guardian]

20 Rescued From Cable Car - Helicopter crews lifted the cable car operator and 19 tourists to safety early Saturday from a gondola suspended 330 feet (100 meters) above the ground on Tegelberg mountain in southern Germany, after hanging there overnight. The cable car that climbs the mountain was halted Friday after a paraglider tandem flight crashed into its cable. [msnbc]

Digital Pics Of Apple’s New Flying Saucer HQ - The 2.8 million-square-foot four-story workplace for 12,000 Apple employees will contain a 1,000-seat auditorium, 300,000 square feet of research facilities, a couple of levels of underground parking in the circular structure, as well as an external four-story parking structure. Best of all, it will run mostly off the grid, using its own “energy center” as its power source, using the conventional power grid as a backup. [mashable]

Bridget Jones 3 Is Confirmed - Chicks Lose Their Minds – “Amazing news, film fans – our favourite singleton is set to return! After months of whisperings and rumours, it has finally been confirmed Bridget Jones 3 is on the way. Oh yes. Entertainment Weekly has confirmed the third movie starring Renee Zellweger has officially been given the go-ahead, with film bosses reportedly hoping to start work on the new project soon.” [marieclaire]

Hollywood Is Infested With Paedophiles: Corey Feldman - Actor Corey Feldman has sensationally claimed that his Lost Boys co-star Corey Haim was the victim of a paedophile who was also a Hollywood mogul. The Lost Boys actor said he was ‘literally surrounded’ by paedophiles at the age of 14, but didn’t realise ‘until I was much older what they were and what they wanted.’ [dailymail]