Top News Stories –
Ronaldo has most Facebook likes after going ahead of Shakira –
Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has overtaken Shakira to become the most followed person on Facebook. The 30-year-old star now has 107,096,356 likes compared to 107,087,100 for the Colombian singer. Ronaldo became the first sportsman to cross 100 million likes last October after joining the site in 2009. He also has 34 million followers on Twitter but is only 13th on that list with Katy Perry leading on 66.6 million followers. [BBC]
Christiano Ronaldo
Flintoff wins Australia’s I’m A Celebrity –
Andrew Flintoff has been crowned Australia’s king of the jungle after winning their version of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Flintoff beat Australian Football League player Barry Hall and TV personality Chrissie Swan to the title in the South African jungle. After winning, Freddie said: “As an Englishman winning something in Australia, it’s unheard of.” On the show he ate a rat’s tail and was covered in elephant manure. He also drank fermented milk laced with cockroaches and flies and fell out of a helicopter. [BBC]
Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff
Vladimir Putin reappears in public for first time in 10 days –
President Vladimir Putin has made his first public appearance for over ten days, scotching rumours of a Kremlin coup and even his own death. All eyes were on the Russian city of Saint Petersburg on Monday as Mr Putin met with the President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, for talks as planned. Commenting on suggestions that he had been forced to lie low because of ill health, Mr Putin said that life without rumours would be boring. “It would be boring without gossip,” Mr Putin, 62, said in his first public appearance since March 5. [Daily Telegraph]
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List of the day –
| Facebook’s top 20 accounts | |
|---|---|
| Page | Facebook likes |
| 1. Facebook for Every Phone | 544 million |
| 2. Facebook | 170m |
| 3. Facebook Sales Germany | 170m |
| 4. Ronaldo | 107m |
| 5. Shakira | 107m |
| 6. Eminem | 98m |
| 7. Vin Diesel | 90m |
| 8. Rihanna | 89m |
| 9. YouTube | 86m |
| 10. Barcelona | 83m |
| 11. Real Madrid | 82m |
| 12. Michael Jackson | 80m |
| 13. Lionel Messi | 78m |
| 14. Justin Bieber | 77m |
| 15. Katy Perry | 77m |
| 16. Bob Marley | 76m |
| 17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | 76m |
| 18. Will Smith | 76m |
| 19. The Simpsons | 74m |
| 20. Taylor Swift | 74m |
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Other News Stories –
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Libyan Civil War
- Islamic State kidnaps about 20 medical workers from the Ibn Sina Hospital in the Libyan city of Sirte. (CNN)
- Disasters and accidents
- Cyclone Pam
- The remnants of Cyclone Pam move down the east coast of New Zealand causing evacuations, heavy flooding, and power outages. (New Zealand Herald)
- The United Nations estimates that every school in Vanuatu has been destroyed or damaged by Cyclone Pam. The interim death toll has risen to 44. (ABC News Australia), (Reuters via Daily Mail)
- A bus runs off the road in northwestern Nepal killing at least seventeen people. (The Hindu)
- International relations
- The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, orders troops placed on full readiness in snap drills citing increased NATOexercises as the reason. (Bloomberg)
- Law and crime
- Italian police arrest four people while 51 others are under investigation for corruption associated with public works including a stretch of the high-speed rail line near Florence. (Daily Mail)
- An Egyptian court hands down a death sentence to Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and thirteen others.(BBC)
- Robert Durst is formally charged with the murder of his former friend Susan Berman covered in the HBO documentary miniseries The Jinx. (Variety)
- Malaysian police arrest parliamentarian Nurul Izzah Anwar for alleged sedition. Izzah is the daughter of former Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim. (Straits Times)
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