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I’ve been watching a lot of Sky News over the past couple days since the looting started in London. Personally, I’m not quite sure what to think about all of it, apart from sorrow; sorrow for the kids who feel they need to behave like this to be seen or to get things they want. There’s clearly a problem with parenting is kids are acting like this. I’m also amazed at how few police forces were available to stand up to them – watching video’s of police running from the kids is something the Prime Minister needs to address because this is just kids, it could be way worse (the parties involved that is).

Like anything, there’s always something on the Internet that comes along which adds a pinch of tongue and cheek. I was sent the link to the Movers and Shakers section on Amazon, this section shows which products are experiencing inclines in sales and are clearly popular picks.

Anyway, this is what you’ll see:

Sure, there might be no link, but it’s a little bit of a coincidence don’t you think?

Anyway, despite the little bit of humour here, my thoughts do go out to all those people in London and surrounds, I hope the chaos stops soon so things can go back to normal!

The News of the World has shut down, one of the biggest media publications, the biggest in the UK, ever to exist. I haven’t followed the phone hacking situation too much, but have a general idea of what went down, so it would appear that all of this is causing way more damage than I actually thought, despite knowing it was very serious.

The website shuts down with a simple message about being the world’s greatest newspaper from 1843 to 2011 and they’ve announced a final Souvenir Edition, which can be purchased and a pound from each purchase will go to a charity.

The Telegraph published an article entitled, “News of the World shut down in bid to end phone hacking scandal”, which you can read here.

Here’s what the website looks like:

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I’ve watched Wimbledon since 199x and have always kept my fingers on the pulse. The Williams sisters didn’t start off as fans of mine, but over the years they ‘matured’ into women I have grown huge respect for. In fact, this year I was holding thumbs for them, hoping one of them would at least make the finals, but alas, both sisters are out.

Venus lost to Pironkova and Serena lost to Bartoli. Bartoli took the match 6-3, 7-6 and Pironkova 6-3 6-3. I’m quite bleak about this, but both winners played incredibly well and deserved to win, so may the best woman go through of course!

The men’s side is getting great too, I’ve watch some excellent matches with Nadal, Federer and djokovic, and I’m looking forward to when all these gents play against each other, that’s when the games are going to get brilliant!

Have you been watching?

Another terrifying natural disaster has occured this weekend, perhaps not as awful as the recent quake, but it’s still horrible non-the-less. Several videos have been published:

Absolutely terrifying to see the sheer power of this twister!

The full story’s been published on the Huffington Post, so if you’re interested in reading more, best you head on over there.

It doesn’t matter where you’re looking today, the biggest news is about the death of Osama bin Laden, one of the most feared terrorists in the world. The news broke earlier today and since then it’s carried like wildfire over the Internet. It didn’t take long for “Osama bin Laden” to start trending on Twitter at all and no matter where I looked online, it was being broadcast.

Here’s US President Barack Obama giving a speech on the matter:

There are a collection of resources on this, so if you’re interested in reading further, here are some sources:

• CNN
• CNBC
• BBC
• News24

This morning, Japan’s northeastern coast experienced a huge 8.9 magnitude earthquake and this was followed by a 6m tsunami. Footage shows cars and buildings being washed away and the destruction is awful.

CNN are broadcasting live and you can watch it live right here:

My thoughts go out to everyone involved!

A wikileaks cable has been leaked and it clearly states that the ANC is a “complete mess” and that its young cadres have no interest in history, but simply want access to jobs and personal enrichment.

The cable points out that Dumisa Ntuli, an ANC spokesperson, had discussed various things with a US diplomat. Ntuli had told the diplomat that crippling divisions were plaguing the ruling party.

The entire cable is available here, alternatively catch up via News24.

If you’re South African, it’s probably a good idea to go on over and have a quick read, it’ll only take you about 5 minutes to read the article and it’s interesting to see, potentially, what is happening internally at the ANC.