Man Grabs French President Before Being Tackled [Video] – A man grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy by his shoulder and pulled him up against a barricade Thursday before being tackled by security officers. The incident came as Sarkozy visited the town of Brax in southwest France. Television footage showed the man being wrestled to the ground by four bodyguards. [cnn]

Former Partner: Lions Bankrupt – The Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU) is totally bankrupt according to a document sent to GLRU president Kevin de Klerk by the GumaTAC Group. Debt of several millions of rands, including a loan of R30-million with ABSA that the GLRU has to pay back by Sunday, a claim of having to pay back around R14-million and the inability to pay salaries, are mentioned in the document. [sport24]

Strauss-Kahn Case Is Close To Collapse – The prosecution case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and French presidential hopeful accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, is close to collapse. At the centre of the dramatic turn in the case, is lack of confidence on the prosecution side in the witness’s testimony about herself and what she says happened. [guardian]

Chavez Confirms Tumor – Doctors in Cuba detected and removed a cancerous tumor from Hugo Chavez’s body, the Venezuelan president announced in a speech broadcast on state-run VTV Thursday night. Chavez said he was continuing treatment, but did not specify what that treatment entailed, where the tumor was located or when he would return to Venezuela. [cnn]

Monaco Royal Wedding Party Begins – The Mediterranean principality of Monaco on Thursday began three days of royal wedding festivities marked by glamour and romance but also, thanks to last minute rumours, suspense and intrigue. Californian rockers The Eagles were tuning up to mark the start of the party with a late night concert on the eve of Prince Albert II’s Friday civil wedding to statuesque South African swimming champ Charlene Wittstock. [channel24]

Facebook Plans To Launch “Something Awesome” – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters at the company’s Seattle office yesterday that the company next week plans to “launch something awesome.” The thing, let’s call it Project Awesome, was developed in that office, Reuters reports. [forbes]

New Ohio Law Allows Guns In Bars – Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich on Thursday signed into law a bill that allows gun owners in the state to carry concealed weapons into bars and other places where alcohol is served. Brilliant idea! They should open up a crèche run by pedophiles while they’re at it! [reuters]

Lost Da Vinci Painting Worth $213 Million – A painting verified as a lost work of Leonardo da Vinci is set to be exhibited in London before going under the hammer. Scholars in the US and Europe have authenticated the oil on wood painting of Jesus Christ as a work of the great Renaissance artist and inventor, ARTnews magazine reported. It is expected to fetch more than $200 million at auction. [ninemsn]

Mobsters Apartment Now Hottest Apartment In Santa Monica – Katie Perry and Russell Brand allegedly just forked out $6.5million for a California home, a modest sum compared to the $150million Petra Eccleston spent on hers. But it appears that the hottest property in the golden state at the minute is the simple Santa Monica apartment where James ‘Whitey’ Bulger hid from the FBI for more than a decade. [dailymail]

200 Million Tweets A Day – Twitter has achieved a new milestone: Its users now send 200 million tweets per day. To demonstrate just how large a number that is, Twitter decided to do the math and see how many books could be written with 200 million tweets. According to its calculations, a day’s worth of tweets would be enough to write a 10-million-page book or 8,163 copies of War and Peace. [mashable]

China Opens Longest Water Bridge – China opened the world’s longest bridge over water on Thursday. The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles long, according to Guinness World Records. It links China’s eastern port city of Qingdao to Huangdao island. Bravo, China! [msnbc]

Animals Get High Too – After a long day of roaming the wild, can you blame a bird for throwing back a few fermented berries? Perhaps not, according to author and neuroscientist David Linden, who says that wild animals will “voluntarily and repeatedly consume psychoactive plants and fungi,” much like humans. [huffpo]

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Alleged Suicide Attempt – Troubled actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers was taken to hospital by ambulance after a suspected suicide attempt, The Sun reports. Meyers, who plays Henry VIII in the series “The Tudors,” is believed to have downed pills at his home. [foxnews]

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