Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro wins

Venezuela’s electoral authority declared Nicolas Maduro the winner of the presidential election with 50.66 percent of the votes against 49.06 percent for his rival Henrique Capriles, who has refused to concede defeat. The National Electoral Council said yesterday more than 99 percent of the ballots had been counted and the results were “irreversible.”

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THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE SMARTPHONE

British luxury designer Stuart Hughes has created a £10 million, solid-gold bodied, diamond-encrusted iPhone 5. The phone, which underneath its special shell, is no different from any iPhone in terms of hardware components, was commissioned by an unnamed Chinese businessman as his regular day-to-day handset.

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Maduro narrowly wins Venezuelan Presidential vote

Venezuelan Acting President Nicolas Maduro narrowly won the Presidential elections with 50.66 percent of the votes, National Electoral Council’s President Tibisay Lucena said on Sunday. With 99.2 percent of the ballots counted, Maduro defeated his opposition challenger Henrique Capriles, who gained 49.07 percent of the votes.

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BBC in death song ding-dong with Thatcher fans

The BBC came under pressure on Friday to ban the Wizard of Oz song “Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead” from its airwaves as it surged towards the top of the British charts following the death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

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