Facebook's row over Vietnam photo shows how Mark Zuckerberg has become a media tycoon by stealth

Only a few days ago, Mark Zuckerberg told an audience of Italian students that he was the boss of a technology firm, not a media company.

Even at the time, it was clear that the Facebook boss was being disingenuous - either to his audience, or to himself. Because, as the Vietnam photo controversy has made glaringly clear, the 32-year-old is indeed a media tycoon. The most powerful one there has ever been.

'I've won 3 Ballon d'Ors and he's won none' - Cristiano Ronaldo stunningly blasts Xavi

 Cristiano Ronaldo blasted Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez after the former Barcelona player said the Real Madrid/Portugal star was unlucky to be playing in the same generation as Lionel Messi.

Speaking to Spanish radio station Cadena Ser earlier in the week, Xavi had said: 

“Ronaldo is a player of his time. The problem is that there is another who has been pretty much the best player in history. Ronaldo is extraordinary but compared to Messi, for me and for everyone who likes football, there are no comparisons.

90 year old Queen Elizabeth drives Kate Middleton around her Scottish estate

The Queen of England may be 90, but she proved on Friday that she can still chauffeur family members to gatherings at her beloved Scottish estate. The queen drove her granddaughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton to a picnic lunch with Prince William in the hills above Loch Muick on the Balmoral estate while the security guards sat in the backseat behind them. Another photo after the cut...

What are you Sowing? And what do you intend to Reap

The reason I so like the verse in James is that it brings us a picture of what we must do to bring the harvest of righteousness about, we must sow the seeds of righteousness, seed by seed, so that our harvest will be plentiful. We must sow seeds daily---weekly--for our whole lives, that there will be remnants of His beauty, peace, redemption, everywhere we go, every day that we live.

Develop New Plans

There are two times when a person is likely to quit, after a failure or after a victory. Instead, if at first you do succeed, try something harder. All progress is due to those who were not satisfied to let well enough alone.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Dealing with Your Ex

Everyone knows breaking up is hard to do. But staying in contact with your ex following a breakup? That’s where things get really tricky. By remaining in each other’s lives, you run the risk of a post-breakup rendezvous, holding onto feelings for your ex, and in general delaying your ability to heal and move on quickly (and without additional heartache). The following are some tips to help you avoid a post-breakup backslide into your ex’s arms, and instead ease you into your happily ever after future:

7 Honest Answers About Having Friends Of The Opposite Sex,

1. Have your ever dated someone in your social circle?

anonymous: I’ve never dated anyone I was friends with, then had it blossom into a relationship like a Monica-Chandler-type thing. All of my exes started out as acquaintances, then we hung out more

Tips to Help You Deal with Your Ex

Most of us have at least one former partner in our lives. Sometimes these relationships are smooth and sometimes the lines between ex and ex-tremely bothersome may be blurred. Here are some tips to help you make that relationship work without hurting your current partner.

1.     Be patient. There's usually uncomfortable fallout from most relationships so give your ex (and yourself) a little space to make appropriate adjustments.

GIVING UP IS NOT THE BEST OPTION

It doesn’t take nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’:

If you’ve ever done any sales training, the old adage goes that the ratio of ‘no’s’ to ‘yes’s’ is 9 to 1. So it takes nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’.

If you’re an entrepreneur, you know this isn’t true.

Sylvester Stallone had to survive over 1,500 rejections before he got Rocky to be made on his terms (many by the same agents multiple times).

The Breakfast of Champions

No obstacle will ever leave you the way it fund you. You will either be better or worse. Problems are the price of progress. The obstacles of life are intended to make us better,, not bitter. Adversity has advantages.