Valerie Trierweiler ‘Took One Pill Too Many After Hollande Told Her Of Affair’ – Valérie Trierweiler remains in hospital in Paris, having been taken there a week ago in a state of “deep despair”, having woken up last week feeling sick and “terribly alone” [tlgrph]

Julie Gayet Sues Closer Magazine Over François Hollande ‘Affair’ Photographs – The actress is seeking 50,000 euros (£41,000) in damages and 4,000 euros in legal costs for breach of privacy, Closer magazine told news agency AFP today. [indp]

Hollande Subject To Dirty Protest: Manure Dumped Outside Of The French National Assembly – A truck carrying a large pile of manure drove to the French National Assembly and unceremoniously dumped the lot in front of the Government building yesterday. [indp]

Australian Open 2014: Play Suspended As Temperatures Soar Above 40 Degrees – Australian Open organisers suspended play on Thursday in Melbourne after temperatures rose above 40 degrees for a third successive day. [ibtimes]

Fifth Person Arrested For Krejcir Plot – A fifth person was arrested on Thursday for allegedly plotting to kill a police investigator associated with the Radovan Krejcir investigation, said Gauteng police. [tlive]

Gauteng ANC Not Fazed By Opinion Poll That Puts Support At Less Than 50% – The ANC in Gauteng has poured cold water on opinion polls suggesting that it would lose its grip on the country’s economic powerhouse in this year’s general elections. [ctprs]

Google Glass: Motorist Cleared In Landmark Case – A woman who was issued with a traffic ticket for driving while wearing Google Glass has been found not guilty of watching television while driving. [sky]

Kruger Attack: Couple Will Not Be Charged – The South African National Parks (SANParks) management says it can understand the public outcry and anger over the Kruger Elephant attack and killing, but has asked the public to have confidence in the park’s decision. [n24]

Israel’s Efforts To Limit Use Of Holocaust Terms Raise Free-Speech Questions – Israel is on the brink of banning the N-word. N as in Nazi, that is. [nyt]

Fewer Visitors To Robben Island – Cape Town continues to welcome scores of local and international visitors to the Mother City, with top tourist attractions and the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) recording an increase in the number of tourists for the summer season so far. [f24]

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Happy 40th Birthday, Kate Moss! 40 Snaps From The Supermodel’s Early Days (PICS) – The icon that is Kate Moss, Britain’s undoubtedly most celebrated modelling institution, turned a fabulous 40 years old on Thursday. [huff]

Another Day, Another British Celebrity Sexual Predator – A woman allegedly raped by Coronation Street star William Roache kept quiet for decades because she blamed herself, a court has heard. She described how she was a “gullible” teenager – “a kid” – who was raped on two different occasions in 1967 at the actor’s then-home in Lancashire. [huff]

Nigeria Gays: 20 Lashes For ‘Homosexual Offences’ – A Nigerian man has received 20 lashes after an Islamic court in the northern city of Bauchi convicted him of homosexual offences. [bbc]

David Cameron’s Number One Priority For 2014? Hiding His Bald Spot – Prime minister shows off his sense of humour at Westminster correspondents’ dinner, poking fun at Tory rival Boris Johnson. [grdn]

H.I.V.-Positive Person, Told Otherwise, Is Being Sought – For the last six weeks, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has been engaged in a highly unusual effort to identify an individual who is H.I.V. positive but was wrongly informed that he or she was H.I.V. negative after a mix-up of blood samples taken at the hospital. [nyt]

Google Unveils ‘Smart Contact Lens’ To Measure Glucose Levels – Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. [bbc]

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Japan To Test ‘Magnetic Net’ That Can Fish Out Floating Space Junk – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) is teaming up with a company that manufactures fishing equipment to create a net that will sweep the heavens of the man-made debris orbiting our planet. [scmp]

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