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Gaddafi Accepts Peace Roadmap, According To Zuma – Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday after leading a delegation of African leaders at talks in Tripoli. “I have some commitment which is compelling me to leave now, but we have completed our mission with the brother leader [Gaddafi],” the South African president said after several hours of talks. [news24]

Why South Africa Is Emerging As A Hot Film Location – Baden Powell Drive is a highway linking South Africa’s historic wine country and the tin-shack township of Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, with wide verges favored by prostitutes and goats. Yet here,  a crew and a cast of hundreds are making Judge Dredd, which they hope will be one of next year’s biggest action movies. Why here? [time]

SA Sold R70Million Of Arms To Libya – Confirming what 2oceansvibe exposed in February this year (following the sighting of a personnel arms carrier being loaded in the harbour, The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) annual report for 2010 showed that South Africa sold weapons to Libya worth about R70-million last year. [mail&guardian]

Is Your Facebook ‘Friend’ Actually A Facebook ‘Stalker?’ – You know the type: someone who is always showing up in comments and appears to be practically plugged in directly to Facebook. While we’ve effectively outlined all the signs of addiction, there’s a group of Facebook users that are all to themselves: Facebook stalkers. Here’s how to tell if you have one. [allfacebook]

Julius Malema Hate Speech Trial Starts Today – It’s hard now to remember what South Africa was like exactly a year ago. We were indeed, for a while, a different country. One that seemed more like that other place of pre-1994. And now we’re going to have a rehash some of those emotions – fear being one of them. Thankfully though, it will remain within the comparatively dry confines of the law. [dailymaverick]

75-Year-Old Woman Shuts Down Two Contries’ Internet – Georgian police arrested a 75-year-old woman who single-handedly cut off Internet connections in Georgia and neighbouring Armenia, the interior ministry in Tbilisi said on Wednesday. The pensioner was digging for scrap metal when she hacked into a fibre-optic cable which runs through Georgia to Armenia, forcing many thousands of Internet users in both countries offline for several hours. [timeslive]

Japan Tsunami Debris Heading For US – The Hawaiian islands may get a new and unwelcome addition in coming months — a giant new island of debris floating in from Japan. Researchers in Hawaii have created a simulation showing exactly how the houses, tires, chemicals and trees washed to sea by the March 11 tsunami will float across the Pacific and eventually hit the U.S. coast. [cnn]

Charlie Sheen Bombs In New York – Sheen and his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour limped and sputtered through town. And when the show ended — ahead of schedule — the actor ran from the stage like a scared felon ahead of a lynch mob.
“F–k you, Charlie! F–k you, Charlie!” a row of young men chanted after Sheen sprinted from the theater. [nypost]

Japan’s Most Powerful Mafia Don Released From Prison – Police in Japan are bracing themselves for the possibility of conflict with the underworld after the head of the country’s most powerful crime syndicate was released from prison. Kenichi Shinoda was freed from the Fuchu prison, near Tokyo, on Saturday after serving a six-year sentence for firearms offences. Around 35,000 gangsters – 44% of Japan’s total – are members of his gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi. [guardian]

Kate And William Invite Ex-Flames To Royal Wedding – Prince William and Kate Middleton have invited a total of six of their ex-partners to the royal wedding. While the Prince of Wales embraced the worlds of high finance and international politics when sending invitations, the 250 guests jointly chosen by the Royal couple, together with the 100 guests invited by Kate’s parents, include a football club chairman, a famous comedian, a yoga teacher – and all of William’s ex-girlfriends, along with two of Kate’s rumoured former flames. [dailymail]

Grand National 2011: Ornais Trainer Andy Stewart Anger At Storm Over Horse Deaths -Stewart was outraged by derogatory coverage, which, he said, attempted to denigrate the race and the courageous win of the Donald McCain-trained Ballabriggs in the world’s most famous steeplechase. Stewart, also the owner of the staying hurdling phenomenon Big Buck’s, said he would continue to support the Grand National. “It is the showcase of jump racing to the entire world. [telegraph]

‘Henry’ Is Hollywood’s New Favourite Baby Name – When The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers had his third son recently, he surprised trend watchers by choosing not an ancient prophet’s name like Ammon, as he did for his first child, or a contemporary bad boy name like Gunnar, which he used for his second son. Instead, Flowers followed up those two typically-crazy rocker baby names by choosing something really different, even radical: He named his little boy Henry. [dailybeast]

Britain To Allow Gay Men To Donate Blood, Unlike US – British health officials said Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first time, reversing a decades-old ban. According to the new policy, gay men who have not had sex with a man for the past 10 years will be allowed to donate. Sexually active gay men, though, will continue to be barred. [nydailynews]

Dennis Quaid’s Favourite Mistake – “My greatest mistake was being addicted to cocaine. I started after I left college and came to Los Angeles in 1974. It was very casual at first. That’s what people were doing when they were at parties. Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised. It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it.” [newsweek]

Boston Bans Coca-Cola On City Property – Boston’s long-time mayor, Thomas M. Menino just made quenching the thirst of city-workers that much harder. According to The Boston Globe, Menino issued an executive order to phase out sugary drinks from all city property in an effort to curb rising obesity rates. So long non-diet sodas. Adios sweet tea. Arrivederci you sexy sports drinks, you. [slashfood]

Natalie Portman Pre-Teen Dance Routine [Video] – While her “Black Swan” body double claims that she secretly danced all of Natalie Portman’s ballet scenes — charges both “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofksy, choreographer Benjamin Millepied and co-star Mila Kunis vehemently deny — there can be confusion about whose fancy footwork is on display in this video. [huffingtonpost]

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