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October 20, 2011 | | JUDGMENT DAY News Corp.’s annual shareholders meeting is approaching, and the question on everyone’s lips is whether frustrated investors will vote to loosen the family’s grip on the media empire. The Daily Beast’s Nicholas Wapshott reports on long-favored son (and heir apparent) James, who is teetering on the edge, and his mogul father Rupert, who must convince shareholders that he has been misunderstood by his enemies—and betrayed by his minions. LIBYA The ruling Libyan government reported Thursday that former dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been captured in Sirte. National Transitional Council officials said Gaddafi had been wounded in both legs. Reports of his capture have not been independently verified. Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, had fallen to the former rebels shortly before his supposed capture. A field commander of the NTC confirmed that Gaddafi had been captured, but said it is not clear whether he is dead or alive. NATO has not confirmed the reports. BAD BLOOD Mitt Romney and Rick Perry sure didn’t seem like friends at Tuesday night’s debate, and, in fact, they’re not: Bad blood has long coursed between the two men, going back to 2006 when Romney, as the chairman of the Republican Governors’ Association, hired a consultant who worked for one of Perry’s political opponents. Perry then attacked Romney in his 2008 book about the Boy Scouts for banning the scouts from the 2002 Olympic Games. And Romney, apparently, never forgave Perry for endorsing Rudy Giuliani in 2008. CULPRIT It was the cantaloupe in the packing facility with the unsanitary conditions. The Food and Drug Administration has pinpointed the source of the nation’s deadliest listeria outbreak. A Colorado cantaloupe farm’s packing facility has been linked to the 25 deaths. The cause seems to be equipment at Jensen Farms that was not cleaned appropriately and the use of washing and drying equipment for packing cantaloupe as well as other raw agricultural commodities. The lack of a precooling step to cool the fruit before cold storage may have led to the growth of the bacteria. The outbreak, which has diminished but is still not contained, has infected 123 in 26 states. JUMANJI Police in Ohio say they have accounted for all 56 exotic animals that escaped a private zoo after their owner opened their cages. That mostly means dead, as only a grizzly bear, two monkeys, and three leopards survived. The other animals—18 tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, three mountain lions, two grizzly bears, two wolves, and a baboon—were all killed, and a monkey was found dead. The animals' owner, Terry Thompson, shot himself after he released them. The six surviving animals were taken to the Columbus Zoo. | | 
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