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PA Sangma quit NCP and NDA extended its support to him, tension spikes over Mubarak's successor as he slips into coma, Facebook revealed how its site is policed, a sex toy is mistaken as a mushroom in a village in China, and Anjelina Jolie to be Maleficent in the classic story of sleeping beauty.Here are few more stories that were preferred by our readers.

PA Sangma quit NCP and NDA extended its support to him, tension spikes over Mubarak's successor as he slips into coma, Facebook revealed how its site is policed, a sex toy is mistaken as a mushroom in a village in China, and Anjelina Jolie to be Maleficent in the classic story of sleeping beauty.

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1) Sangma has quit NCP, will get our support: NDA
Presidential candidate P A Sangma has resigned from his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and will get the support of NDA in the election, politician Subramanian Swamy announced on Wednesday.

2) Egypt's Mubarak in coma as tension spikes over successor
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was Wednesday in a coma on life support at a Cairo hospital, sources said, as tension spiked over who will succeed him as president and moves by the ruling military to extend its powers.

3) Facebook reveals how site is policed
Facebook Inc offered a rare peek at one facet of the elaborate system it uses to police its 900 million-user social network, as it attempts to keep it free of content it deems offensive, illegal or just plain inappropriate.

4) Sex toy mistaken for mushroom fools entire Chinese village
The discovery of a double-headed sex toy, which was mistaken for a mystical rare fungus, brought national notoriety to a Chinese village and TV program this week.

5) FIRST LOOK: Angelina Jolie as Maleficent
Wearing leather horns, prosthetic cheek bones and yellow contacts, Angelina Jolie impresses in her latest outing as an evil sorceress. The film explores the origins of Maleficent and events that led her to curse Princess Aurora to sleep in the classic story of Sleeping Beauty.