Trace amounts of the radioactive element iodine-131 from the Japan nuclear disaster have been detected in South Florida, but authorities say the concentrations remain far below the level that would present any danger. - Wednesday 30 March 2011

Facebook has removed a page calling for a new Palestinian uprising against Israel after more than 350,000 people signed up to it.

The page which appeared on the social networking site was called Third Palestinian Intifada after two previous uprisings against Israeli occupation.

- Wednesday 30 March 2011

AOL Black Voices is taking a critical look at the AIDS nonprofit Keep a Child Alive’s ad campaign featuring Hollywood stars in what is meant to be traditional tribal face paint. Each celeb’s image is accompanied by the text, "I am African." - Wednesday 30 March 2011

NASA released an image of the planet Mercury on Tuesday, the first obtained from a spacecraft orbiting the solar system’s innermost planet.

The image is the first of many expected to come from the Messenger probe, the first space mission to orbit the planet closest to the sun. The Messenger spacecraft launched on August 3, 2004, and after flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury, started its historic orbit around Mercury on March 17.

- Wednesday 30 March 2011

Held over the weekend, in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State (Nigeria) on Saturday, March 26, 2011, the celebration announcing the winners of the 2011 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) – in just its 7th year.

This year’s nominations list boasted an even longer list of awards, compared to previous years, as the award ceremony continues to grow.

Viva Riva, a film I’ve touted on this website in recent days, after seeing it for the first time last week, rightfully dominated, winning 6 trophies, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Production Design.

- Wednesday 30 March 2011

What do you do after becoming the African American to travel in space? Sit back and enjoy the title? Not if you’re Dr. Bernard Harris. The astronaut, physician and businessman started the Harris Foundation to provide education and crime-prevention programs for Houston students. He is being honored for his work this week with the FBI’s Director’s Community Leadership Award for the philanthropic work that he calls his biggest accomplishment. - Tuesday 29 March 2011

The media giant is said to have approached the music website about exchanging the social network for a stake in a new venture.

News Corp. is in talks to give control of MySpace to music Website Vevo.com, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

- Tuesday 29 March 2011

What does it take to run a social-networking site that 500 million users rely on and obsess over? Who are the people working to keep your Facebook page not only up and running but constantly innovating and transforming?

MTV’s "Diary of Facebook" — premiering March 30 at 11 p.m. ET/PT — goes deep inside the social network’s hyperkinetic Palo Alto, California, headquarters to tell the story of what really goes on; you think you know, but you have no idea.

- Tuesday 29 March 2011

Amazon.com plans to introduce a service that will let people upload their digital music to the Web and access it from browsers on any computer and from Android phones.

The service, known as a music locker, was made available to Amazon account holders early Tuesday. Amazon will offer a Web-based hard drive backup service called Cloud Drive, where people can store documents, photos, videos and music.

- Tuesday 29 March 2011

In his remarks to the nation Monday, President Obama needed to navigate a narrow, thorny path in explaining the United States’ involvement in Libya’s internal strife.

He had to persuade a somewhat skeptical American public that intervention was in the national interest, while reassuring viewers that the U.S. military’s role would remain a limited one.

- Tuesday 29 March 2011