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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What’s your sign? Minn. prof suggests it’s off
A Minneapolis astronomy professor says he’s stunned by the attention he’s getting for suggesting the signs of the zodiac are all wrong. Parke Kunkle said in a newspaper interview that the Earth’s wobbly orbit means it’s no longer aligned to the stars in the same way as when the signs of the zodiac were first conceived. He said that means when astrologers say the sun is in Pisces, it’s really in Aquarius, and so on…
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDefault/APOdd/Article_2011-01-14-Zodiac%
20Shifting%20Signs/id-562c7d458b64408b89497afa29c43af9

Tunisian president arrives in Saudi after mass uprising
The president of Tunisia landed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, a day after he fled massive demonstrations calling for his ouster in the northern African country. A plane carrying President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family landed in Jeddah, where he was welcomed by the Saudi king. The government said the gesture was to support Tunisia. “The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announces that it stands fully by…
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/15/tunisia.protests/index.html

Marine Le Pen ‘chosen to lead France’s National Front’
France’s far right National Front has chosen Marine Le Pen as its new leader, replacing her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, party officials say. The results will be officially announced on Sunday, but party sources said she had secured about two-thirds of members’ votes. Mr Le Pen is stepping down after leading the ultra-nationalist party, which he founded, for almost 40 years. In 2002 he came a shock second in the first round…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12198370

Obama prepares to engage China on human rights as Pres. Hu visits next week
President Obama is planning to refocus attention on China’s record of suppressing free speech and political freedom in the coming weeks, despite the risk of further destabilizing an important relationship after a contentious year. After elevating human rights as a guiding principle of his foreign policy at the United Nations last fall, Obama has been looking for ways to engage China’s leaders on the issue without undermining…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/
AR2011011404091.html

Insiders Say Facebook’s Goal Is To Be The First TRILLION Dollar Company
Goldman Sachs clients are buying $1.5 billion worth of Facebook stock at a $50 billion valuation. Yesterday, Wedbush analyst Lou Kerner said that if Facebook were a public company, it would be valued closer to $100 billion right now. On the secondary markets, accredited investors are actually buying Facebook stock at much steeper implied valuations – sometimes higher than even $124 billion. Crazy numbers right? Wait till you…
http://www.businessinsider.com/50-billion-hah-facebooks-goal-is-to-be-the-
first-trillion-dollar-company-2011-1

Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html

China Leader’s Limits Come Into Focus as U.S. Visit Nears
With President Hu Jintao at the helm, China has become a $5 trillion industrial colossus, a growing military force, and, it sometimes appears, a model of authoritarian decisiveness, navigating out of the global financial crisis and sealing its position as the world’s fastest rising power. But as Mr. Hu prepares to visit Washington this week in an attempt to defuse tensions with the United States, Obama administration…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/world/asia/17china.html

Apple Says Steve Jobs Will Take a New Medical Leave
Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is taking a medical leave of absence, a year and a half after his return from a liver transplant, the company said on Monday. Mr. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees that said he was stepping aside “so I can focus on my health” but would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company. “I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can,”…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/technology/18apple.html

Facebook Starts Sharing Your Home Address, Phone Number With Developers
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that his company’s mission is to “make the world more open and connected.” The quest for greater openness now involves sharing Facebook users’ home addresses and mobile phone numbers with the third-party developers that create Facebook apps. In other words, a Facebook app can now access your address and phone number, though that application or website can only obtain…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/facebook-home-address_n_
809901.html

Christina Taylor Green Cornea Donation Saves Eyesight Of 2 Children
Donated corneas from the young girl killed in the Arizona mass shooting have saved the eyesight of two children, the girl’s father told The Associated Press on Monday. John Green said the Donor Network of Arizona told him and his wife about the successful transplants. He said he doesn’t know whether any of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green’s other organs have gone to any other children, but he’s under the impression that…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/christina-taylor-green-cornea
-donation_n_810144.html

Haitian police take ex-dictator to court
Haitian police led ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his hotel and took him to court Tuesday without saying whether he was being charged with crimes committed under his brutal regime. His longtime companion denied that he had been arrested. A contingent of police led the former dictator known as “Baby Doc” through the hotel and to a waiting SUV. He was not wearing handcuffs. Duvalier, 59, was calm and did not say anything…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_ex_
dictator_returns

Bin Laden threatens France in new message
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden called on France to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in exchange for releasing French hostages being held by affiliates of the extremist group, according to a new audio message broadcast on an Arabic news channel Friday. “The exit of your hostages out of the hands of our brothers depends on the exit of your troops from Afghanistan,” bin Laden said in the message broadcast by al-Jazeera…
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDefault/*/Article_2011-01-21-Al%20Qaida%20France/
id-15e123feede048dead60f9d8fe2556d2