Bill Clinton Recalls ‘Romantic’ Times Square Hooker Scenario – Asked if he had any memories of the area, Clinton said: “When I was 18 years in November of 1964, a freshman at Georgetown, I first went to Times Square. I saw a hooker approach a man in a grey flannel suit. Pretty heavy stuff for a guy from Arkansas. Yes, look, I still have vivid memories of it. Romantic, fascinating.” [telegraph]
Gaddafi Cruises Around Town In A Lexus, As Bombs Fall – Libyan TV broadcast pictures which they say show Muammar Gaddafi standing in an open-top sports utility vehicle driving around Tripoli streets and said the outing occurred while the Libyan capital was being bombed by NATO. [reuters]
The 10 Largest Military Powers In The World – America is the arms merchant to the world and is likely to sell $50 billion in weapons this year. Business may not be as good in the near term, however. Military spending among all the world’s nations totaled $1.63 trillion last year, but that was up only 1.3% from the year before. Here is the top 10. [24/7]
ANCYL Child Faces New Hate Speech Charges – An additional hate speech charge will be brought against ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and another against spokesperson Floyd Shivambu. “AfriForum took this decision after Malema encouraged his followers outside the… High Court in Johannesburg to sing a song with the words ‘shoot to kill’ with him.” [news24]
For Rent: The Country Of Liechtenstein – Got $140,000 to spare? If so, the entire country of Liechtenstein can be yours to rent through Airbnb. Airbnb is a website that helps travelers rent a place to stay from homeowners. Usually, that means a house, or at least a spot on someone’s couch, but now the scope has expanded to include six Austrian villages, three German towns, one Swiss ski-resort village, or the Principality of Liechtenstein. [techland]
Most Catholic Women Use Birth Control – Catholic women overwhelmingly use birth control, despite an official ban by the church, a new study finds. The study, conducted by reproductive health institute Guttmacher, finds that 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women use or have used birth control other than church-approved natural family planning. [livescience]
World’s Fastest Long-Range Superyacht Up For Sale – Custom built in 2009 by Hanseatic Marine in Henderson, Australia for German eco-industrialist Guido Krass, the 73.5-metre Silver Zwei, the world’s fastest long-range superyacht. The luxury yacht has been now put on sale by the German billionaire via Burgess for €59 million (about $85 million). [bornrich]
Man Watches Porn, Bursts Into Flames – Cops and firefighters are searching for clues about what caused a man to burst into flames while watching porn in a private booth at a San Francisco sex shop. Crew members from a private ambulance parked near the sex shop in the city’s South of Market neighborhood spotted the porn junkie running down the street while on fire just after 6 p.m. Wednesday. [nydailynews]
Inside Kate Middleton’s Family Business – Prince William and Kate Middleton’s fairytale romance begins a new chapter on April 29. So too does the business owned by the family of the future princess. Kate’s middle-class parents, Michael and Carole, are the owners of Party Pieces, a party supplies business that sells everything from balloons and bunting to cakes and confetti. [cnn]
Serena Williams Rolling With Full-Length Shocking Pink Body Suit – Leave it to Serena Williams to come back to tennis in style (huh?). Williams, a former world No. 1 who hasn’t played since July because of injury and illness, announced on Twitter that she returned to training Tuesday by posting a photo of herself serving in a hot pink full-length body suit. [miamiherald]
Apple Releasing White iPhone 4 Quite Shortly – Apple Inc. (AAPL) will start selling a white version of its iPhone 4 in the next few weeks, following a 10-month delay. The new model will be available from AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless in the US by the end of April. [bloomberg]
Early Arcade Fire Footage Turns Up On YouTube – Before winning a Grammy and perplexing the world, Arcade Fire played house parties. Just like you — only, they were actually good. Pitchfork has just surfaced this clip, which it says comes from 2002, before the band’s first disc, Funeral, came out. [mashable]
Shakira Gets Robbed During Concert [Video] – Shakira performed in Monterrey, Mexico earlier this week and as she walked through the crowd while singing, she shook hands with a fan who slipped a ring off her finger. The whole thing was captured on film and the guy still didn’t get caught. [blemish]
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