Lady Gaga Labeled A ‘Kafir’ – Lady Gaga’s June 3 concert in Jakarta has been canceled following heightening protests and threats of violence. She has been labeled a ‘kafir,’ which is the arabic word from which South Africa’s own ‘K’ word with two fs was derived (wikipedia). A group called the Islamic Defenders Front said that they would stop the concert by a pop star they refer to as the “messenger of the devil.” [gawker]

Mdluli Finally Suspended From Police – Former police crime intelligence chief Lt-Gen Richard Mdluli has been suspended from police after failing to respond to notice of intention to suspend him, issued by acting national police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. [businessday]

City Press Refuses To Remove Painting From Website – City Press editor Ferial Haffajee on Sunday apologised for the hurt caused by the paper’s publishing of a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed, but refused to remove the image—artist Brett Murray’s The Spear—from the paper’s website. [mail&guardian]

Tshwane City Manager To Earn More Than Zuma – Municipal managers in the country’s two largest cities are about to become the highest earning government employees and the first to break the R3m barrier. Tshwane city manager Jason Ngobeni and his Johannesburg counterpart, Trevor Fowler, will earn R3.25m and R3.23m a year from 1 July. That’s about R700k more a year than President Zuma. [news24]

Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes – Austrian director Michael Haneke was the popular winner of the Cannes film festival’s top honor on Sunday with “Love” (Amour), an elegiac tale of an elderly couple facing the inescapable, yet no less tragic march of death. Haneke joins an elite group of two-time winners of the coveted Palme d’Or at the world’s biggest film festival after his “The White Ribbon” won in 2009. [jakglo]

Vatican In Chaos As Pope’s Butler Arrested – The Vatican’s investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope’s butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See by revealing evidence of internal power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of the Catholic Church governance. [huffpo]

Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Officially A Cash Billionaire – Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is now officially a billionaire. Until now, Mr. Zuckerberg has been staggeringly rich only on paper. On Tuesday, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the 28-year-old founder completed the sale of 30.2 million Facebook shares at $37.58 each. That will give Mr. Zuckerberg a not insubstantial $1,134,916,000 in cash. [nytimes]

Facebook Smartphone Rumours On The Rise Again – Can a software company build its own smartphone? We may find out soon. This past week, Google completed its acquisition of the hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which could lead to the search giant’s making its own smartphone. But another software titan might be getting into the hardware game as well: Facebook. [bosglo]

How Tim Cook Is Changing Apple – A 14-year veteran of the company, Cook is maintaining, by words and actions, most of Apple’s unique corporate culture. But shifts of behavior and tone are absolutely apparent; some of them affect the core of Apple’s critical product-development process. [forbes]

Brits Trial Cameras In Cars To Reduce Insurance Premiums – Young drivers are being given a new way of cutting the cost of car insurance. A 15% discount, worth hundreds of pounds in many cases, is being offered to motorists under 25 years old willing to fit cameras inside their cars. [bbc]

Ernie Els Apologies For Wentworth Outburst – Course designer Ernie Els has apologized for his expletive-laden outburst about the softness of the greens in the PGA Championship at Wentworth, European Tour officials said on Sunday. He had told ‘them’ to put ‘fucking water on the greens.'[reuters]

Protests Loom As Webber Takes Monaco – The Red Bull driver makes it two wins at Monte Carlo to become the sixth different driver to win this season – a new F1 record – but discontent ripples through the paddock over the car’s design. [mirror]

Harvard Beats Yale In 147th Regatta – Harvard cruised to its fifth consecutive win over Yale on Saturday in the 147th renewal of the Harvard-Yale Regatta on the Thames River (US). Harvard has now won 13 of the last 14 regattas. [theday]

Decorate Your Home With Embroidered Kanye West Tweets – If you’re going to hang up embroidery around your home, you might as well opt for an original sentiment. That’s why you might like this — embroidered Kanye West tweets. This seller has found the perfect way to commemorate Kanye’s unique stream of consciousness style, with a classic, cozy feel. [gawker]

Obama’s Weed Smoking Days Get Big Coverage Is US – President Obama may have smoked a lot of ganja back in his teen years, but marijuana advocates grumble that he’s not showing weed users any love today. Pro-cannabis campaigners called the president’s behavior hypocritical. [thedaily]

Strippers At Silvio Berlusconi Sex Parties Wore Obama Masks – New details about Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” parties reveal some decidedly un-presidential behavior. Reuters reported one woman who attended Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” parties told a court Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of US President Barack Obama to entertain the former Italian prime minister. [globalpost]

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docks Successfully – Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and guided the privately owned craft into a docking berth on Friday, opening a new chapter in the U.S. space program. [mybroadband]

Men In Black III Knocks Avengers Off Top Spot – Men in Black 3 took the retro thing all the way to the box office. The Will Smith sequel won the holiday weekend with an estimated $55 million Friday-Sunday take that was big enough to defeat The Avengers, but was a throwback to the franchise’s grosses from a decade or more ago. [eonline]

Kristen Stewart’s Sideboob Revealing Gown – Friday’s premiere of “Cosmopolis,” Cannes 2012 mainstay Kristen Stewart ditched the Balenciaga pants and went bold, bold, bold in a sexy red Reem Acra gown — that almost revealed more than she probably wanted. [huffers]

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