Photographs in White House when Laden was killed!!!

Sometime after midnight last night I Tweeted this: "Can't wait to see White House photographer Pete Souza's behind-the-scenes photos of the past few days' events." Souza has delivered. For the past several years, the White House chief photographer has been chronicling every moment of the Obama Administration. He has unprecedented access to the President and his staff and gets himself into meetings and rooms you'd think he wouldn't ever be allowed. Case in point: Souza was in the Situation Room with President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other senior officials while the mission in Pakistan to take out Osama bin Laden was taking place yesterday. The photo above is truly remarkable — check out the no-BS look on the President's face and Secretary Clinton's expression of near shock at what she's watching. Absolutely awesome. We can only guess that they're watching the mission unfold via a camera mounted on one of the Navy SEAL's helmets. Check out more cool photos from yesterday's events in the White House after the jump.

By the way, one more thing about Souza's photos. He posts a selection of them every day on theWhite House Flickr feed, and perhaps even cooler, every single photo that he and his staff takes are protected pieces of the National Archives. Which means that he's not allowed to delete any photos and the entire collection will be made available to the public following the completion of Obama's presidency. That's pretty amazing.

Cannes Film Festival had begun in cannes of france from May 11 2011!!!

The much-awaited Cannes Film Festival is all set to begin today with the screening of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (France's first lady, wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy)! The Festival de Cannes will be held from May 11th to May 22nd. The mouth watering line-up of movies that will be screened also includes Michael Hazanavicius' French film, The Artist, which is creating much buzz for being a silent movie, set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to sound. Another highly-anticipated film is The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. Also making the list is the much-awaited next instalment of the Pirates' franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz.

The other big names showcasing their wares will be Gus Van Sant with Restless, Pedro Almodovar with La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In); Lars Von Trier with Melancholia, the Dardenne brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc with Le Gamin au Velo; Japanese horror guru Takashi Miike with Ichemel (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai) and Italian comic/ communist guru Nani Moretti, with Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), and upcoming hotshot Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place.

Amidst all this fun and fanfare, India will also mark its presence at the festival with three Indian beauties Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Freida Pinto and Sonam Kapoor, walking the red carpet as brand ambassadors of a cosmetics company. Aishwarya says, "Being at Cannes for L'Oreal Paris has been an absolute pleasure and to experience this for the tenth consecutive year is overwhelming. It is one of the most glamourous red carpets on the world platform, celebrating cinema, showbiz, beauty, diversity and excellence. Several countries have always had more than one spokeswoman at Cannes and I'm glad India is finally getting the same recognition. I am happy that with Sonam and Freida, both beautiful women, have being invited to the festival this year, India will have a stronger presence, which is a clear sign of the growing importance of the country."

Also bolstering India's presence at Cannes will be the screening of a special documentary 'Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told', made under the collaboration of UTV and Shekhar Kapur, on a special invitation of Cannes Festival director Thierry Fremaux. This 81-minute film will be screened as a part of the official selection for the 'out of competition' section.

 For more information about the festival please visit the official website and the link .

Facebook owner and youngest Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg bought home in Palo Alto

Mark Zuckerberg is, at age 26, on the young side for a first-time home buyer these days. But the Facebook cofounder and chief executive isn’t exactly stretching financially to make his first purchase. Valued at $13.5 billion, and with a persona made famous by the Oscar-winning film The Social Network, Zuckerberg recently plunked down a relatively paltry $7 million for his first home.

The restored historic Palo Alto, Calif. Abode encompasses 5,617 square feet on a 17,100 square-foot plot. It includes five bedrooms, five and a half baths, a banquet-size dining room, a music alcove and glassed-in porch. The backyard has a saltwater pool, a spa, an outdoor gazebo with a wood-burning fireplace and a carport. The lot, located on Edgewood Drive in the Crescent Park neighborhood, is shielded from nosy neighbors and gawkers by a wall and citrus trees. Crescent Park itself is a high-end neighborhood where median single-family homes went for an average of $1.9 million in February, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.

The young billionaire’s new pad hails from an earlier structure erected by William A. Newell, a physician and politician who helped establish and govern the area in the late 19th century. It was razed and rebuilt by another physician in 1903. Since then, it changed hands roughly seven times, going through several remodelings, before being acquired by the social media entrepreneur.

The property was listed through Sherry Bucolo of Alain Pinel Realtors. Both Bucolo and Facebook declined to comment on the sale, but public records indicate the deal closed in mid-March. As with most real estate transactions involving rich and famous homebuyers, the sale was conducted through a third party LLC.

The young billionaire has long been a fan of renting and of relatively modest digs. His last two places were rentals in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto, both of which were close to Facebook’s offices and significantly smaller than the new home.

Zuckerberg, who ranks 52nd on Forbes’ list of the World’s Billionaires, paid $1 million more than the previously listed asking price of $5.85 million. The $7 million paid is about what the home is valued in the expensive 94301 zip code, according to Zillow.com.

That might seem like a hefty price tag to many middle Americans, but it’s pee wee league among billionaires. Yuri Milner, a venture capital billionaire and Facebook investor, shelled out $100 million for an 11 acre, 25,000 square foot estate in the area earlier this year. In April, news broke that Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s wealthiest billionaire, had snatched up a London penthouse for $221 million, the most ever paid for an apartment anywhere.