This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive.

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Gay Marriage in Argentina, But Homosexuality Still Illegal in Much of the World
In reaction to news that Argentina legalized gay marriage, the excellent Nate Silver posts this chart showing that the number of people living in jurisdictions that approve gay marriage has steadily risen over the past ten years. According to the chart, the number of people living in jurisdictions which recognize same sex marriage…
http://www.undispatch.com/gay-marriage-argentina-homosexuality-still-illegal
-much-world

Jobs: A Free Case For Every iPhone 4 User
Today at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, CEO Steve Jobs took the stage to address the iPhone 4 antenna issue. First he rattled of some numbers to show how small the problem actually is. But he also acknowledged that some people are having problems — and they want everyone to be happy. So what are they doing?…
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/16/jobs-a-free-case-for-every-iphone-4-user/

French Heiress vs. Daughter and Political Intrigue
An aging heiress. An angry daughter. A society photographer. A renegade butler and an embittered accountant. Secret tapes. A famous company with a nasty past and long political connections. An unpopular president and a cabinet minister with a taste for money, and tales of illegal cash donations in envelopes…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/world/europe/19france.html

Nexus One DEAD: Google Discontinues Its Android Phone
Google’s first-ever phone, the Nexus One, launched to great fanfare earlier this year. There was talk of the Android handset becoming an “iPhone killer” and speculation that Google’s direct-to-consumer sales strategy for its unlocked phone would change the mobile market as we knew it. But now, some six months…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/nexus-one-dead-google-dis_n_
650855.html

Syria bans face veils at universities
Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country’s universities. The Education Ministry’s ban on the niqab comes as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against Muslims. An official at the ministry says the ban affects public and private universities and aims to protect Syria’s secular identity…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100719/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_islamic_
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Darfur rebels JEM to sign UN child protection deal
Sudanese rebel group JEM is to sign a landmark deal with the United Nations this week on the protection of children caught up in the Darfur conflict, mediators said Monday. “As part of the agreement, the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) commit to taking all steps necessary to ensure the protection of children in Darfur,”…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100719/wl_africa_afp/sudanunrestchildren
unicefjem

Vaccination Patch Could Make Immunizations Painless
For most people, the worst thing about getting a vaccination is the big, scary hypodermic needle. So researchers have invented a new vaccine-delivery system that replaces the large single needle with 100 tiny dissolvable ones embedded in a Band-Aid–like patch. The new patch can immunize mice against influenza just as…
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/vaccination-patch-could-make
-immunizations-painless/

In Los Angeles, Unsolved Killings Reflected Era
It was the most painful sort of ordinary. One summer day in 1985, a woman turned up dead in a South Los Angeles alleyway. Almost exactly a year later, another woman with fatal bullet wounds was found, in another alley nearby. And so it went, for nearly 25 years — with a 13-year lull in which the killings seemed to stop…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/us/20grim.html

Lost Kafka writings resurface, trapped in trial
It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himself. The papers, retrieved from bank vaults where they have sat untouched and unread…
http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/2e515285f07040df999bd6b670db791c/
Article_2010-07-21-ML-Israel-Kafka-Trial/id-928aa6782e1b464ab35a374622826c17

Chad refuses to arrest Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges
Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, is in Chad on his first visit to a member state of the International Criminal Court, which last week issued a second warrant for his arrest on charges of genocide. Member states are legally obliged to arrest fugitives on their soil but Chad has refused. Bashir arrived in N’djamena yesterday…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/22/chad-refuses-arrest-omar-al-bashir