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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Caffeine-Eating Bacteria Revealed
Think you live on caffeine? Four species of bacteria that thrive solely on the substance have you beat. But these microbes get their caffeine fix from regular dirt—not the coffee which so many of us depend on to function. For example, people in the U.S. buy more than 2.5 billion pounds of coffee every year, according  to USAID. About 60 species of plants naturally produce caffeine, which contains carbon, hydrogen…

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Appeals to the ILO to Expand its Activities in Myanmar
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the former General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, spoke via video message to the delegates of the 100th International Labour Conference of the ILO. She expressed her hope that the ILO would expand its activities in Myanmar and help usher in an era of social justice. The International Labour Organization’s current activities in Myanmar include efforts…

Police raid, invade WOZA house
AT ELEVEN am on 10th June 2011, seven or eight men who identified themselves as police officers arrived at the gate of a venue WOZA members use for their internal meetings. They did not produce any search warrant and were extremely aggressive. A lawyer for Human Rights was immediately asked to attend the scene to demand any search warrant and observe the processes police would undertake. Two of the…

Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad…

Free Ayat now, Amnesty tells Bahrain regime
Amnesty International last night called on Bahrain to free Ayat al-Gormezi, the 20-year-old student who has become a symbol for those who have taken to the streets of the Gulf state to demand greater political freedoms. Jailed for a year this week for protesting, Ms Gormezi was convicted after reciting poetry critical of Bahrain’s king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and the Bahraini regime. She was arrested on 30 March…

‘There is no security’: hackers take down CIA site
Move over Anonymous – a new hacking group is on the block and in just a few weeks it has claimed several high-profile scalps including the CIA, US Senate, an FBI affiliate, Sony and several video games companies. The CIA’s website has been knocked offline today and the hacker group, which calls itself Lulzsec, has claimed responsibility. The group has amassed more than 150,000 followers on Twitter and…

Greek crisis threatens eurozone meltdown
A huge financial mess. People are upset because the government has been trying to push through harsh austerity measures designed to help reduce Greece’s huge budget deficit. Cuts imposed so far have led to public sector job losses and tax rises. This has stirred public unrest and created a crisis for Prime Minister George Papandreou, who is scrambling to save his government in the face of political…