Italian Parliament Turns Into A Brawl Amid Economic Tensions – Tensions over Italy’s attempts to avoid becoming the next victim of the eurozone debt crisis exploded in parliament on Wednesday, with MPs exchanging blows and insults over a pension reform plan. Epic. [telegraph]

Nokia Debuts Their First Windows Smartphones – News of a Nokia/Microsoft partnership first broke back in February — but Nokia has at long last debuted the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. It’s been hinted at for months now, but the handset formerly known as the Searay has finally been revealed as the Lumia 800. Stephen Elop has called it the “first real Windows Phone” — quite a lofty claim, but does the hardware live up to it? [techcrunch]

Johnny Depp And Keith Richards Impromptu Jam Session – Keith Richards gave an impromptu performance in New York City on Tuesday night, joining his buddy Johnny Depp on stage during the after party that followed the premiere of the movie star’s latest film, The Rum Diary. The Rolling Stones guitarist was accompanied to the bash by his two daughters, Alexandra and Theodora, and spent much of the evening hanging with Depp at the bar. [nydailynews]

Libya Promises To Bring Gaddafi Killers To Justice – Libya’s new leaders have vowed to bring Muammar Gaddafi’s killers to justice in a sharp break with their previous insistence he was caught in crossfire. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council has unanimously voted to end the mandate for international military action in Libya, ending another chapter in the war against Gaddafi’s toppled regime. [skynews]

Bloomberg TV Brings Live Streaming To The iPad – Bloomberg is bringing its 24-hour live broadcast to the iPad, the financial media conglomerate announced Thursday. Unlike CNN or ESPN, which make their live feeds available only to select subscribers, Bloomberg is boldly making its broadcast available to anyone with an iPad. [mashable]

Marijuana Peeps Sue Government – A medical marijuana advocacy group has sued the U.S. attorney general and the top federal prosecutor in Northern California, asking a federal court to halt recent raids and threats of prosecution that have significantly stepped up the Obama administration’s assault on the state’s 15-year-old program. [latimes]

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi Might Surrender – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi once vowed to fight and die on Libyan soil, but now he may be ready to hand himself in to the International Criminal Court rather than suffer his father’s gruesome fate. An official of the National Transitional Council said on Wednesday that Saif al-Islam, the only one of Muammar Gaddafi’s eight children still on the run, had proposed surrendering to the Hague-based ICC, where he is wanted on war crimes charges. [reuters]

The Real Reason Steve Jobs’ Benz Didn’t Have a License Plate – We’ve always wondered why Steve Jobs’ Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG didn’t have a license plate. Did he think he was above the law? Was he doing it to be different? Maybe! But how did he get away with it? Easy. He got a new one every 6 months. [gizmodo]

The US Have An Operational Drone Base In Ethiopia – The US Air Force has invested millions of dollars to upgrade an airfield in Arba Minch, Ethi­o­pia, where it has built a small annex to house a fleet of drones that can be equipped with Hellfire missiles and satellite-guided bombs. The Reapers began flying missions earlier this year over neighboring Somalia, where the United States and its allies in the region have been targeting al-Shabab, a militant Islamist group connected to al-Qaeda. [washpo]

World’s Biggest Coin Worth $53 Million – The biggest, heaviest and inherently most valuable gold coin in the world has been unveiled by the Perth Mint. Weighing 1012 kilograms, it is more than a tonne of 99.99 per cent pure gold worth more than $53.5 million. The giant coin is 80 centimetres wide, 12 centimetres deep, took 18 months to create and features a bounding red kangaroo on one side and the Queen on the other. [smh]

RIM Hit With Consumer Lawsuits Following Blackberry Outage – Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion (RIM.TO) for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of frustrated BlackBerry users on five continents without email, instant messaging and browsing. [reuters]

Man Builds Smartphone Dock In Prosthetic Arm – Trevor Prideaux, a 50 year old UK national, is the first man who has a built in smart phone dock on his prosthetic limb. Prideaux was born without his left arm and uses an artificial arm. But because of his prosthetic limb, he had some difficulties in using his smart phone, which is essential to him as a catering manager. Check it out. [ibtimes]

Gaddafi Composer Made A Song For Condoleezza Rice Called ‘Black Flower In The White House’ – Condoleezza Rice has revealed more about the creepy obsession Moammar Gadhafi had for her in a new interview. The former Libyan dictator was always fond of Rice and once referred to the former secretary of state as “my darling black African woman.” That fact wasn’t far from Rice’s mind when, during the same 2008 meeting, Gadhafi said he had prepared a video for her. [thedaily]

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