Gist: Rebel Wilson tastefully covers Elle Australia

Rebel Wilson on the cover of Elle Australia's April issue. (Elle magazine, David Burton)

Cape Town – Our favourite a capella ‘pitch’ took the cover of Elle Australia and she looks amazing!

Sporting hot red lips, Rebel Wilson chatted to Elle about everything from Fat Amy to what she likes to wear in her down time.

News: We will not concede any town to B’Haram again, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that the Federal Government would continue to resist any attempt by Boko Haram terrorist group to “capture and take over” any town or village within the country. Declaring this at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign rally in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, yesterday, the President said:

Gist: Kylie Minogue calls it quits on Jay Z's managing company

Kylie Minogue. (AP)

Los Angeles - Kylie Minogue has stopped working with Jay Z.

The pop princess has decided to part company with the rapper's Roc Nation management company after two years following a series of professional disappointments.

Kylie's last album, 2014's Kiss Me Once, under-performed in the charts despite having some of her best material for years and she was reportedly also disappointed that many promised sponsorship deals and endorsements never materialised so she has decided to make a break.

News: At least 30 dead in mosque bombings in Yemen capital: witnesses

At least 30 people were killed Friday in triple suicide bombings that targeted mosques attended by Shiite Huthi militiamen in the Yemeni capital, witnesses said.

One bomb exploded inside Badr mosque in southern Sanaa, and was followed by another at the gate as worshippers fled, witnesses said.

The third suicide bomber targeted Al-Hashahush mosque in northern Sanaa, witnesses said.

Gist: Kelly Rowland is one proud mama!

Kelly Rowland on the cover of, Essence Magazine (Instagram)


Cape Town - We’ve been waiting forever to catch a glimpse of the entire Rowland / Weatherspoon clan and now Kelly and hubby Tim Weatherspoon are on the cover of Essence mag with their baby boy, Titan Jewell.

This is the first time we get to see Titan, since she gave birth in November last year. And he looks so cute!

News: Paula Patton and Robin Thicke have been granted a divorce.

Paula Patton and Robin Thicke at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Viewing. (AP)

Los Angeles — Paula Patton and Robin Thicke are another step closer to divorce.

The actress from Precious and 2 Guns was granted a divorce on Tuesday from theBlurred Lines singer in Los Angeles. Their legal split will go into effect on 14 April.

News: Hong Kong man who salted and cooked parents guilty of murder

A Hong Kong man who was accused of killing, dismembering, salting and cooking his parents was found guilty of double murder Friday.

During the 20-day trial the court heard how Henry Chau, 31, had dismembered his elderly parents before salting, cooking and packing their body parts into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork”.

The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March 2013, stuffed into two refrigerators in a bloodstained apartment, days after they were reported missing.

News: EU leaders discuss Tunis attack, Islamist threat in Libya

EU leaders said they would discuss Friday the attack in Tunis that left many European tourists dead and how unrest in neighboring Libya threatens broader European security.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack that left 21 people dead, including two Spaniards, a British woman, a Belgian woman, two French, a Pole and an Italian, authorities said.

The two gunmen involved in the attack on the Tunis museum trained at a militant camp in Libya, the authorities said, where Islamic State and other jihadist groups are present.

News: Yemen: Shiite, Sunni militants lead slide into chaos

Powerful armed groups have sidelined Yemen’s government ever since a 2011 popular uprising forced long-time president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

Shiite militiamen and Sunni extremists have sought to exploit the power vacuum, as escalating violence and political chaos grip Yemen.

– The Huthis –

The Shiite Huthi militia, also known as Ansarullah (Supporters of God), have long complained of marginalisation by authorities in Sanaa.

Gist: Hugh Jackman forced to cancel stand-up shows due to a vocal haemorrhage

Los Angeles - Hugh Jackman has suffered a vocal haemorrhage.

The 46-year-old actor has been forced to cancel the remaining dates of his one-man show, An Evening with Hugh Jackman, in Istanbul, Turkey, this week after blood vessels on his left vocal chord burst.

He did however, promise disappointed fans he will be rescheduling the dates on Twitter.

News;IS claims beheading of three Iraqi Kurdish fighters

The Islamic State group claimed to have beheaded three Iraqi Kurdish fighters in an online video and threatened to kill more unless the Kurds stop bombardment of jihadist-controlled areas.

Peshmerga forces from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, backed by US-led air strikes, are battling IS in the country’s north and have pushed the jihadists back in Nineveh and Kirkuk provinces.

The video starts with images of people being brought to a hospital and a voiceover saying that they were wounded by peshmerga rocket fire.

The three prisoners, dressed in orange jumpsuits with their hands bound, are later shown kneeling one at a time with masked militants standing guard at locations said to have been hit by peshmerga fire, and are then beheaded.

News: Iran nuclear talks intensify after Obama appeal

Marathon talks towards an Iran nuclear deal picked up pace Friday as US President Barack Obama appealed to Tehran to seize an “historic” opportunity and begin a “brighter future”.

In Switzerland, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart began their fifth day of talks, while in Brussels the leaders of Germany, France and Britain also met.

In a Nowruz (Persian New Year) video address, Obama said that a “reasonable nuclear deal… can help open the door to a brighter future for you the Iranian people.”

“I believe that our nations have an historic opportunity to resolve this issue peacefully — an opportunity we should not miss,” Obama said.

News: India’s first gun for women proves a hit – among men

lightweight revolver gun

A lightweight revolver launched in the wake of a deadly 2012 gang rape in Delhi and billed as India’s first gun designed for women has proved a hit — but only among men.

Sales figures for the Nirbheek, which means “fearless” in Hindi, show that just 28 of around 450 orders received so far have been for women.

The revolver was developed by a state-run weapons factory in the northern city of Kanpur after the death of a young student who was gang-raped in the capital sparked widespread fears about women’s safety.

News: Myanmar leader defends reform pace, army role

Thein Sein

Myanmar’s president has rejected criticism that his government has stalled on crucial reforms and has defended the powerful army’s hold over politics.

Thein Sein, a former general who has run Myanmar since 2011 when the junta ceded power to a quasi-civilian government after decades of brutal rule, insisted his country was on the path towards genuine democracy.

News: Nigeria’s Jonathan eyes Boko Haram ouster within a month

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan said in an interview broadcast on Friday that he hoped that Boko Haram militants would be pushed out of captured towns and villages within a month.

“I’m very hopeful that it will not take us more than a month to recover the old territories that hitherto have been in their hands,” he told the BBC.

Nigeria’s military has had a remarkable transformation, claiming to have recaptured dozens of communities from the Islamists in the restive northeast since early February.

News: Nigeria’s Jonathan eyes Boko Haram ouster within a month

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan said in an interview broadcast on Friday that he hoped that Boko Haram militants would be pushed out of captured towns and villages within a month.

“I’m very hopeful that it will not take us more than a month to recover the old territories that hitherto have been in their hands,” he told the BBC.

Nigeria’s military has had a remarkable transformation, claiming to have recaptured dozens of communities from the Islamists in the restive northeast since early February.