Reaction To Zuma’s God And Heaven Comments ‘Childish’ – The reaction of opposition parties to President Jacob Zuma’s heaven comments is “childish”, African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday. “We are more surprised by the childish reaction of the opposition parties … [at] how childish can the opposition be in an open society and a free society.” Hilarious. To recap, Zuma said, “When you are carrying an ANC membership card, you are blessed. When you get up there, there are different cards used but when you have an ANC card, you will be let through to go to heaven.” [mail&guardian]

Woodstock Cracks The New York Times – We found a stunning story about Woodstock in the New York Times that you should see. Check it out : “This used to be a run-down, derelict area,” I informed a London visitor, as we drove down a wide road in Woodstock, Cape Town, flanked by large, loft-like buildings, on one side, and neat, brightly painted Victorian houses on the other. “Really?” she said politely, clearly straining to keep skepticism at bay. [newyorktimes]

Court Sets Date For Dewani Extradition Hearing – The extradition hearing of Shrien Dewani, accused of hiring a hit man to kill his new bride, has been listed for 3 May. Mr Dewani, 31, from Bristol, was unfit to attend a hearing on Tuesday. A further preliminary hearing is due to take place on 23 March and the full extradition hearing in May is expected to last three days. [bbc]

Picasso Painting Gets $40.7Million At Auction – A Pablo Picasso painting depicting his young lover Marie-Therese Walter has sold for 25.2 million pounds ($40.7 million) at a London auction. Sotheby’s says the 1932 painting, called “La Lecture,” was bought by an anonymous buyer over the phone after some six minutes of heated contest among bidders. [startribune]

Lindsay Lohan To Be Charged For Theft – Actress Lindsay Lohan will be charged Wednesday with felony grand theft relating to a necklace allegedly taken from a Venice, California, jewelry store last month, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The actress “allegedly walked out of the store with the necklace on January 22.” The necklace, which is valued at $2,500, was handed over to police just before they were to execute a search warrant to look for the jewelry in Lohan’s Venice, California, apartment last week. [cnn]

Virgin Atlantic Has The Most Attractive Cabin Crew – Virgin Atlantic‘s cabin crew have been voted the world’s most attractive in a survey of British business travelers – traditionally the most frequent flyers. The Virgin Atlantic crew, who traditionally dress in red, beat competition from Singapore Airlines and Etihad in the survey of 1000 business travelers. [luxuo]

Surprise Surprise: North-South Korea Talks Stall – The low-level military talks which were billed as paving the way to higher-level peace talks, were the first since North Korean artillery bombarded South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island last year, killing four people and bringing the peninsula to the brink of all-our war.
South Korea says it wants the regime of Kim Jong-il to apologise for last November’s bombardment and the torpedoing of its warship, the Cheonan, in the Yellow Sea last March which cost 46 South Korean sailors their lives – an attack which North Korea denies it carried out. [telegraph]

Obama Quits Smoking – President Obama has finally kicked the habit. “Yes, he has,” First Lady Michelle Obama proudly declared Tuesday when asked by reporters if it was true he quit smoking. “It’s been almost a year.” Asked for a more specific date, Michelle Obama said she didn’t know exactly “because he never smoked a lot” – and because she never saw him light up. “He’s always wanted to stop,” she added. [nydailynews]

German Tune Gives MINI The Louis Vuitton Look – If Louis Vuitton ever made cars, it would be like this! A German tuning company called CoverEFX from Erftstadt Fahrzeugfolierer has achieved the classic Louis Vuitton-inspired look with the Mini Cooper by combining the black leather look with gold metallic look. The dark leather bears thousands of small gold specimens glued individually by hand to enact the signature Louis Vuitton feel with the foil embossing technique. [bornrich]

First Pic Of Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher Revealed – The Iron Lady, the Margaret Thatcher biopic that marks the latest collaboration for Meryl Streep and her Mamma Mia! director, Phyllida Lloyd is set to explode! The film is billed as the story of “a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.” You NEED to see this pic of Meryl.. [guardian]

The Biggest Threat To Google, Microsoft And AOL: Ronald Reagan – In the world of email, a short list of companies dominate–Google, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft–but there’s a new player in the game that’s ready to tear down their firewalls: Ronald Reagan. Just as Reagan took on Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, the conservative icon’s family isn’t about to bow down to any lily-livered liberals, be them presidential candidates or billion-dollar tech giants. Read on. [fastcompany]

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