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Zayn Malik solo track taken down after angry response from One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson –
A song featuring Zayn Malik without the rest of One Direction has been taken down, less than a day after it was shared on Twitter. Producer Naughty Boy posted a link to the track early on Tuesday, with the words “let the music do the talking”. It came less than a week after Zayn confirmed he was quitting 1D. Earlier on, the band’s Louis Tomlinson accused Naughty Boy of being “inconsiderate” to fans after he retweeted a video about Zayn. [BBC]
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Top Gear: Richard Hammond and James May no longer work for the BBC –
James May and Richard Hammond are out of contract with the BBC from midnight, after declining to sign new deals to present the next series of Top Gear. The pair are now free agents, meaning rival broadcasters can approach them with job offers. Hammond has tweeted that he is “not ready for retirement”. May does not seem in a great hurry to find new employment, he is making a shepherds pie. [Daily Telegraph]

Google Maps launches PacMan on real streets –
Google has launched an April Fool’s Day version of Google Maps that allows users to play the classic arcade game Pac-Man on real streets. Google Map users can access the Pac-Man version by clicking on the icon in the bottom corner of the screen and then using their keyboard to play the game. The game is accessible on desktop computers and on the Google Maps app. It allows users to play the famous game around the world’s most recognisable streets or your own neighbourhood. At some famous locations, such as the area around the Taj Mahal and the Arc de Triomphe, Google has added a Pac-Man marker that also launches the game because the areas appear perfectly matched to the original Pac-Man layout. [Daily Telegraph]

Elon Musk’s $1bn tweet: news of secret product line sees Tesla shares soar –
Elon Musk, the billionaire technology entrepreneur, has announced a “major” new Tesla product line that is “not a car”, in a cryptic tweet which has left millions guessing. The CEO’s news sparked the hashtag #TeslaNewProductGuesses, with guesses ranging from a time machine to a real-life Iron Man suit. Shares in the electric car jumped to nearly 4 percent in just 10 minutes – adding a staggering $900 million (£600 million) to the company’s market cap in just 115 characters. The tweet went out to his 1.9 million followers and had thousands of retweets within an hour. [Daily Telegraph]

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Disasters and accidents

• Landslides in India‘s Jammu and Kashmir state kill at least six people and leave sixteen others missing. (BBC)
• Large parts of Turkey experience a power outage affecting public services and infrastructure including air traffic control, trams, and subways in Istanbul. As much as 65% of the country is without power. (CNN)
• Germanwings Flight 9525:
  • Germanwings’ owner Lufthansa officially acknowledges that it knew there were mental health issues with Andreas Lubitz before the crash. (The New York Times)
  • German newspaper Bild and French news magazine Paris Match say they have a passenger’s cell phone video showing the plane’s last moments before the crash. (BBC)

Health

• The journal Nature Neuroscience publishes research from Columbia University Medical School that finds that wage income of parents correlates with brain complexity in their children. (Washington Post, via MSN) (Abstract of article)

Law and crime

• A Malaysian court finds a local man guilty of the murder of two British students in Borneo in 2014. (BBC)
• A prisoner accused of multiple bank robberies escapes from a hospital in Falls Church, Virginia after stealing a guard’s gun. Washington, D.C. police capture him. (WJLA)
• In a courthouse in Istanbul, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party–Front of Turkey takes hostage the prosecutor handling the case of a 15-year-old who died in a police gas attack. The situation ends with police killing the gunmen. The prosecutor later dies at a hospital. (BBC)
• An incident at a shooting range complex in Bucharest, Romania leaves two people dead. (Mediafax)

Politics and elections

• Nigerian general election, 2015
  • Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria.(Bloomberg via Melbourne Age)

Sports

• The Australian Football League anti-doping tribunal clears 34 members of the Essendon Football Club team of doping during the 2012 AFL season. (The Daily Telegraph)

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