DSK Lawyers Claim Hotel Maid Is Not Credible – Former IMF boss Dominique Strauss Kahn’s lawyers say they have information that “gravely undermines the credibility” of the maid who claims he tried to rape her. Strauss-Kahn’s legal team wrote to New York’s district attorney complaining about the repeated leaking to the media of evidence related to his trial. [thisdaylive]
Mladic Arrested After 15 Years In Hiding – After more than 15 years in hiding, onetime Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was in a Belgrade jail Thursday night to face charges that he presided over Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ was the highest-ranking fugitive to remain at large after the conflicts that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. [cnn]
Chinese Prisoners Forced To Farm Gold In Online Game - Prisoners at a labor camp in northeast China were forced by guards to play online games in a moneymaking scheme. The scheme, a practice referred to among gamers as “gold farming,” required some 300 prisoners at the Jixi labor camp to gather currency in multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft, which the guards then hawked online for cash. [mashable]
Paypal Sues Google Over Smartphone Payment Service - PayPal says Google stole its ideas for a new service that is trying to turn smartphones into digital wallets. The allegations emerged after Google unveiled its mobile payment service in New York Yesterday. The complaint alleges Google lured away PayPal executive Osama Bedier earlier this year to obtain trade secrets that are now being used in Google’s phone-as-a-wallet service. [cbsnews]
Zim Cop Gets Detention For Using Mugabe’s Toilet - A Zimbabwe policeman has been in detention for two weeks after he used a toilet specially reserved for President Robert Mugabe’s use. Sergeant Alois Mabhunu, a police homicide detective in the western city of Bulawayo, was on surveillance duty a fortnight ago at the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair when he received an urgent call of nature. [news24]
Dave Cameron Approves Apache Helicopters For Libya – The UK is sending four Apache attack helicopters to the mission in Libya, after approval by the prime minister. If called upon, they will allow for swifter attacks on a wider range of smaller targets in urban areas. The Apache helicopters, normally based at Wattisham, in Suffolk, are expected to go into operation within days. [bbc]
Zuckerberg’s New Challenge: Eating Only What He Kills – If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren’t trembling, they should be. When he’s not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new “personal challenge,” as he calls it. “The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself,” says the Facebook founder and CEO. [fortune]
FIFA’s Bin Hammam Suggests Sepp Blatter Probe – FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam, who’s facing a bribes probe ordered by soccer’s governing body, said the investigation should be extended to include incumbent president Sepp Blatter. Hammam and Blatter are opponents in the race for the presidency, with the vote due to take place June 1. [bloomberg]
Cheryl Cole Dropped By US ‘X Factor’ – Cheryl Cole has been replaced as a judge on the new US version of The X Factor. An insider said the singer is to be replaced as judge by former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. Showbiz website TMZ earlier claimed the Girls Aloud star was axed from the show because her Geordie accent was “too thick”. Oh dear. [skynews]
Carla Bruni Visibly Pregnant – Her hands cradling her swelling midriff, a visibly pregnant Carla Bruni-Sarkozy posed for pictures as she welcomed G8 leaders’ wives Thursday, ending weeks of speculation about France’s soon-to-be First Baby. [afp]
Amazon Introduces Mac Download Store – Competing With Apple - Amazon unveiled its Mac Download Store on Thursday: a web-based competitor for the Mac App Store. The store provides direct downloads of Mac software directly from your browser, and ships with some marquee titles that aren’t yet available in Apple’s own marketplace. The real coup here is that Amazon has top-tier offerings from Microsoft and Adobe. [gigaom]
Who Is Left On The World’s Most Wanted List? – The arrest of Ratko Mladic, allegedly one of the world’s most prominent war criminals, is being hailed as a turning point for his native Serbia. Of course, Mladic’s arrest comes just weeks after the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, which means two of the world’s most wanted men are now off the list. So who’s left on the list? [huffpo]
Hangover II Genital Exposure On Whole New Level - Warner Bros. is betting big on penises. The studio’s comedy sequel The Hangover: Part II is not only on track to open at more than $100 million at the box office over the Memorial Day weekend, potentially setting a record for an R-rated movie, but it might be the raunchiest film ever given a massive global release by a Hollywood studio. [hollywoodreporter]
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