 Daisy Mafubela (picture), the chief of the health department of the South African province of Limpopo, which has a population of over 5 million people, blames Excel for the loss of the equivalent of $4 million. A committee has found irregularities in office supplies in the fiscal year 2009-2010. Miss Mafubela justified this by declaring that the department had so much to manage that the result would no longer fit into Microsoft Excel. However, she admitted that their current asset management system was inadequate. The committee, which reportedly was mostly asleep despite Red Bull consumtion, seemingly found this explanation credible, because the only consequence of the affair are 13 million Rand (~$1M) for a new "asset management system" for the health department. One committee-member accused Mafubela that this only happened because her department was too lazy to print out the documents - however in what way this would have prevented the Excel problem remains unclear. Mafubela will probably keep her post. | 
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn puts a preaching ban on Imam Shaker Assem who preached in a Catholic endowment organization. 
An Islamist group prostests against Valentine's Day. 
A 45-year old Swede allegedly has survived from mid-December to mid-February by eating snow after getting stuck on a forest road in Northern Sweden. Being severly emaciated and with hypothermia, the man was rescued from his car. 
After publishing six sentences, among them "I will not pray for you [Mohammed]", a 23-year old journalist had to flee to Malaysia because of public outrage. Now he has been extradited to Saudi-Arabia where he is facing the death penalty for blasphemy, which is requested by over 13,000 on Facebook. 
A Salafi sheikh in Egypt has reportedly issued a fatwa that buying [or driving] a Chevrolet vehicle is unacceptable ("haram") for muslims because the American brand’s logo looks like the Christian cross. 
