William And Kate Boogie Down The Aisle For T-Mobile – Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding is just a few weeks away now, but T-Mobile has stolen a bit of the royals’ thunder with this amusing video from Saatchi & Saatchi showing the bride and groom boogying their way down the aisle. [adweek]
LA Times & Washington Post Wins Pulitzers – The Los Angeles Times won this year’s top Pulitzer Prize for ferreting out government corruption in the poor, working-class city of Bell, Calif., it was announced Monday at Columbia University. A trio of Washington Post photographers won the Pulitzer for breaking-news photography for their coverage of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. [washingtonpost]
Ferrero Rocher Owner Dies Cycling In Cape Town – Pietro Ferrero, who with his brother ran Ferrero, the family-owned producer of Nutella, Tic Tacs, Ferrero Rocher and other sweets sold worldwide, died on Monday while riding a bicycle in South Africa. He was 47. Mr. Ferrero was riding a bike on his usual training run on a road in Cape Town when he fell off. [newyorktimes]
EU Awaits UN Approval Before Deploying Ground Troops Into Libya – European member states poised to send 1,000 soldiers to besieged rebel city of Misrata to assist relief effort. The EU has drawn up a “concept of operations” for the deployment of military forces in Libya, but needs UN approval for what would be the riskiest and most controversial mission undertaken by Brussels. [lexpressmedia]
Goodluck Jonathan Becomes President Of Nigeria. Riots Erupt – Deadly rioting erupted across Nigeria’s largely Muslim north on Monday as youths torched churches and homes in anger at President Goodluck Jonathan’s election victory. Jonathan, the first president from the oil producing Niger Delta, was declared the winner with around 57% of votes. He defeated Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler from the north, who got around 31%. [mail&guardian]
Charlie Sheen To Appear In Court – Charlie Sheen will appear in court Tuesday to make a personal plea to the judge to award him full custody of his kids, Bob and Max. Charlie, along with his lawyer, Mark Gross, will argue that Brooke Mueller is unfit to care for their kids, given her recent relapse into drugs. [tmz]
Mother of Charlie Sheen’s Kids Goes To Rehab – Charlie Sheen’s estranged wife Brooke Mueller has checked into rehab after a week of alleged drug binging. On Friday, it was reported that Mueller had refused to do a drug test even though it was required under the terms of her custody settlement with Sheen. [popeater]
Apple Sues Samsung Over Galaxy – In a patent suit filed Friday, Apple claims that Samsung’s line of Galaxy tablets and phones willfully infringe on its own patents. Apple is seeking injunctions as well as actual and punitive damages. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which runs on Android, was released late last year. [mashable]
Japan Puts Future Nuclear Plant Plans On Hold – Japan will freeze plans to build new atomic facilities and carry out a thorough review of its nuclear energy policy, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Monday, as robots engaged at the crippled Fukushima plant measured the new radiation level as “tough” for workers. Fair enough. [timesofindia]
Chinese 3D Porn Film May Get Sequel – A Chinese film billed as the world’s first 3D porn movie may get a sequel after opening to enthusiastic audiences in Hong Kong. Sex and Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstasy packed cinemas across Hong Kong yesterday as curious filmgoers flocked to see the highly hyped movie for themselves. The film is a sequel to 1991’s Sex and Zen, which remains Hong Kong’s highest-grossing adult film. [guardian]
Winnie Mandela Says Court Is ‘Illiterate” – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told a crowd of supporters outside the Johannesburg High Court yesterday that ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe was going to “educate this illiterate court” about struggle songs. “[ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe] is here to educate this illiterate court,” Madikizela-Mandela said, after thanking supporters for braving the cold, outside the South Gauteng High Court. No word on Stompie. [timeslive]
Inside Pope Benedict’s Daily Life – Pope Benedict XVI isn’t alone in his apartment at the Vatican. Four “guardian angels” help him, and recently there has been an addition to the personnel at his service. For the past six years, the pontiff’s Vatican apartment has been run by members of the “Memores Domini,” a lay association whose members practice obedience, poverty and chastity, and who live in a climate of silence and common prayer. [time]
Great Gatsby Mansion Gets Torn Down – Demolition of the mansion known as Land’s End began Saturday. Preservationist Alexandra Wolfe tells Newsday that regardless of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s true connection to the mansion, his relationship to the house has become local lore. The paper says Winston Churchill, the Marx Brothers and Ethel Barrymore attended parties there in the 1920s and 1930s. [newser]
Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire – It started online and quickly grew into the most intimate of betrayals. The rise, fall and stubborn survival of Kiki Kannibal, a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place. [rollingstone]
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