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Even if he was editor of Loaded magazine which was accused of being a soft porn publication, Martin Daubney was shocked when he sat down on a forward-thinking class led by sex education consultant Jonny Hunt.

Australian stocks remain in the red for a third consecutive trading session, after Wall Street closed lower overnight on budget concerns. The US government shutdown has now entered its seventh trading day, or second week, and is starting to rattle investor sentiment. The Bank of America added to investor worries over the weekend by downgrading its fourth quarter US GDP (economic growth) forecast from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent.

Coffee, tea or me? This pick-up line appears to have a popular answer based on a survey of 7,455 coffee drinkers in six countries. And the winner is: coffee. The survey by Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts found that 78 per cent of the respondents would prefer to have morning coffee than have sex with their spouse.

While Nathan Verhelst, a 44-year-old Belgian transsexual, was recently allowed to be euthanised after an unsuccessful sex change procedure in 2012, Andy Guy of Australia is luckier.

More woes continue to hound the Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry after a shareholder filed over the weekend a class action lawsuit against the troubled tech firm and two executives. The shareholder charged them with inflating the stock price by providing misleading financial information of prospects of the firm's BlackBerry 10 smartphone line.

Reports said that Microsoft Operating Systems Chief Terry Myerson asked HTC in September the possibility of adding the option, with possibly an offer or cutting or removing the patent licensing fees that HTC pays Microsoft for every Android phone it sells.

Petronas, the state-owned oil and gas company in Malaysia, said on Monday that it will invest $36 billion in Canada. The announcement came at the same time that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was attending in Bali, Indonesia a gathering of Asian leaders.

Love is in the air anew for former Miss Universe 1999 1st runner-up Miriam Quiambao who announced on Monday her engagement to businessman Eduardo "Ardy" Roberto Jr.

Two eye candies are battling it out for public attention on New York City's Times Square. The war is between Naked Cowboy Robert Burck and Naked Cowgirl Sandy Kane.

Apple's newly released iPhone5C is living up to the C in its name for cheap at least in Walmart. The world's largest supermarket just dropped the price of the 5C to only $45 with a two-year contract.

Arsen Garibyan from Los Angeles filed last week a lawsuit against Sprint and Nextel of California because the mobile phone he purchased for his son in 2011 allegedly contains porn.

To protest overcharging and underdelivering web hosts, wrestler Hulk Hogan released a video on YouTube over the weekend, promoting his own hosting company, Hostamania, while riding on the popularity of Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball video.

Besides being fired from her job as teaching assistant in Singapore and facing possible criminal charges for bashing newly crowned Miss World 2013 Megan Young and insulting the Filipinos for working as domestic helpers overseas, more woes continue to plague Devina Dediva. New Facebook accounts made on her behalf are now being flooded by hate messages for her offensive remarks to Filipinos.

Previous videos of the 3 Filipinas who stomped a puppy to death had gone viral in YouTube and Facebook. The original 20-minute video which could have provided more leads on the identity of the three women had been removed by YouTube. What remains is a short video actually made up of frozen images of the women showing their legs and their blotted out faces, making it harder for authorities now seeking more information on the identities of the 3 mean Filipinas.

Asian males are known to be prolific and horny. One big proof to that statement is to point to the population of China and India, which has breached the 1 billionth mark each a few years ago.

News of Twitter filing for a $1-billion initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday sent investors into a buying frenzy that they failed to double check the spelling of the company of the stocks they were paying.

Prince Harry of Britain, attired in a navy suit and blue tie, commenced on Saturday his royal visit to Australia, charming his way into the hearts of many Aussie women, including the adult daughters of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Being accessible to the local females was possible because the fourth-in-line heir to the British throne did not have his girlfriend Cressida Bonas by his side.

It is not only Marina Shifrin, the writer who quit her job in a very creative manner, who is a YouTube sensation. Her boss from her and co-workers are now also YouTube stars by making a counterpoint to her video with the message that they are hiring.

On Thursday, Oct 13, fans of the hit Fox musical should stack on boxes of tissues or hankies as they will surely cry a river watching the show's tearful tribute and farewell to deceased Glee star Cory Monteith, who played the character Finn Hudson.

The torture that 3 mean Filipino girls did to a puppy, captured in a viral video that has created furor in social media, is just the tip of the iceberg.

The impasse over US budget talks continues in the U.S. Democrats and Republicans appear no closer to a budget deal on the third day of the federal government shutdown. Up to 800,000 federal workers have been sent home without pay. As a result the Aussie dollar traded at its highest level in a week on Friday on the back of a weakening US dollar.

PC maker Dell has just belatedly rejoined the tablet war by introducing four new low-priced tablets, running on Intel processors.

The Australian stock market has seen selling from the outset, in line with most global stock indices in the last day. Investors continue to give US politician the benefit of the doubt, expecting a timely resolution to the budget impasse. However, if there are no meaningful signs of progress over the weekend market sentiment will likely shift next week. Funding the government's activities is a sideshow compared to the extension debt ceiling. If US lawmakers fail on this count, a debt default w...

Germany's Olympic officials insist that their newly introduced team uniform for the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia is just being fashionable. However, with its rainbow theme, it appears the uniforms are a jab at host country Russia's anti-gay policy.

You reap what you sow. That adage was put to application on Thursday when the hate-spreading Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas when a bisexual female musician shot a porn movie on the church's lawn

Fifty Shades of Grey is a bestseller with 70 million copies of the book sold so far in 37 countries. However, the 2011 novel by E.L. James, pales in comparison to the best-selling book of all time - the Holy Bible, which sells yearly 100 million copies worldwide. And it seems that it is not only in number of copies sold that the two books are competitors. Even in the areas of sex and violence, the Bible could give Fifty Shades a run for its money.

Although Katherine Jackson said she was "OK" when the LA jury delivered its verdict on Thursday favouring AEG Live, the producer of her son Michael Jackson's concert series in London, in truth and not unexpectedly, she was devastated.

YouTube had already removed the 20-minute video of three Asian-looking girls stomping on a puppy to death. The video had gone viral with over 5,000 likes and 50,000 shares in social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

From stolen sperm to unwanted child, an international couple is going through a court battle with elements that would put the sudsiest soap opera to shame in comparison. The incident has so many elements and twist and turns, that if made into a movie would likely a blockbuster.