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While Mark Zuckerberg this week focused on finding ways that people could use Facebook to share every article of journalism and, who knows, maybe even clothing with their Facebook friends, a mayor in New England used the site to share much more.

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Another Brillante Mendoza film brought honor to the country.

“Lola,” the latest film by Cannes-winning director Brillante “Dante” Mendoza, won the Grand Knight Award, equivalent to the Grand Jury Prize in the world competition category of the 27th Miami International Film Festival in the US.

The international film festival also commended the star of Lola, Anita Linda, as a cinema icon and its story for offering “an earnest, compassionate study of forgiveness and redemption.”

The pinoy indie film bested 13 other entries from Russia, Brazil, China, Bolivia and The Netherlands in the category that celebrates the works of up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world.

7 pinoys made it to the Top 100 finalists of Benetton’s “It’s My Time” model search.

They are:

Tiger Woods announced he will make his much-anticipated return to golf at the Masters in April.

"The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect," Woods said in a statement, now on his Web site. "After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta."

Woods, 34, stepped away from the tour late last year after crashing his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and then a tree near his home outside Orlando, Florida.

22-year-old Castro has just released his debut album entitled “The Love Uncompromised.” His debut single “Let’s Just Fall In Love Again” is the track which is currently being aired on air.

So I was just reading latest entertainment news from DIGG and here's what I found. Guess what? A 3-D Titanic?! A shocker, but who knows what happens next. There's a big plan of re-releasing movies and turning them into 3D movies. And the leader? James Cameron. According to reports he will re-edit Avatar and re release the movie this fall and Titanic then will follow. They're targeting spring of 2012 for the release of Titanic 3-D. That's also the 100th year anniversary of the ship.

This is a big project, if this goes out right - we'll just have to get prepared for other movies like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Clash of the Titans to turn out and become 3D versions as well. Below is the report from thestar.com

Is the pound-for-pound boxing king, Manny Pacquiao ready to leave his throne?

After the fight of the Filipino boxing king with Ghainan challenger Joshua Clottey last Sunday (Mar 14), the rumor on Pacquiao’s retirement in boxing is again set on fire.

This Tuesday (Mar 16) on “The Correspondents,” Manny Pacquiao will set the record straight in an interview with ABS-CBN sports correspondent Dyan Castillejo. Find out as well how the boxing champ’s career started and how he prepared for each of his 56 fights.

Pacman defeats Clottey and retains tite in a hard-fought fight!

WBO welterweight champion and World’s best pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) from the Philippines scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision against former IBF champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KOs) from Ghana in front of a crowd of 50 thousand at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas Saturday night (Sunday noon in Manila).

In this Star Cinema and Viva Films co-production, Sam Milby will be playing the role of a teacher who will eventually meet and fall for a model-promo girl played by Anne Curtis.

He admitted that he is a mamm's boy!

Everywhere he goes around the world, his mum always travel with him .

In the UK Magazine, Justin was asked, are you a mummy's boy? "Oh yeah, for sure - I love my mum! She travels with me when I'm on the road, which is nice when you're waking up in a different country every day."