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The trial of two former Australian Defence Force Academy cadets for filming having sex with women cadets, and broadcasting it over chat service Skype started on Monday with the two pleading not guilty to charges of using a carriage service in an offensive manner.

Sixty-nine year-old Age Kolaj and 72-year-old June Norman are studies in contrast. Both were featured in newspaper reports on the same day, Aug 19, 2013, but for different deeds.

The flat result for local stocks appears unflattering, although it was a solid result considering that Telstra and the CBA went ex-dividend , which took 20 points off the market.

The Australian sharemarket is up by around 0.2 per cent at lunch, after a relatively flat few hours of trade.

The Sakurajima volcano in southwestern Japan erupted on Sunday afternoon, spewing ashes 5 kilometres up in the air. As a result, railway operators stopped their service in Kagoshima City temporarily while the ash is being removed.

WeWi Telecommunications, a Canadian company based in Ontario, will release on the last week of August a solar-powered laptop priced at $350. However, the device may also land in North America as a Chromebook, reported Computerworld.

No barebacking. A California federal judge upheld on Friday a voter-approved rule in Los Angeles Country that mandates the wearing of a condom by porn actors when filming sex scenes.

The flagship device of the Taiwanese tech firm, HTC One, is coming to carrier Verizon on Aug 22, ending the long wait of techies wanting to own the device under better terms.

A photo scandal is threatening the reign of newly crowned Miss Teen USA 2013 Cassidy Wolf. The 19-year-old graduate of Great Oak High School in Temecula is said to have nude photos which could circulate in the Internet.

Two disturbing videos surfaced over the weekend, showing attacks on elderly men. The first victim was an 80-year-old Sikh who was beaten by a drunk teenage girl in Britain.

A Yemeni wedding party on Saturday turned into a disaster after floods inundated southern Yemen, causing the death of 27 people and 41 more lost when the vehicle with the wedding party was swept away. The vehicles were driving across Wadi Nakhla, a valley flooded by the monsoon rains, between Taiz City and Ibb province.

Samsung will unveil its smart watch, the Galaxy Gear, on Sept 4. The event will be held two days before the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin and six days ahead of the expected roll out on Sept 10 of the iPhone 5C and 5S, according to Bloomberg.

Thanks to hidden spoon in their underwear and alarm systems in airports, teenage girls of Asian descent in Britain are escaping forced marriages.

Some Ontario residents, it seems, have a love affair with deadly pythons. Just two weeks after an African rock python killed two boys in New Brunswick, 40 pythons were found in a Brantford motel on Thursday evening.

Although Cory Monteith died of drug overdose at the age of 31 in July, the producers of Glee are not exploiting his personal problem to gain more viewers when Season 5 returns.

Another abusive boss who uses his position and power to force his employees to have sex with him in exchange for choice work assignment has been unmasked. The New York Post identified him as 45-year-old Nesim Zuberi, a banquet supervisor at the New York Athletic Club.

Australian stocks came under selling pressure on Friday, despite a strong rise on the Chinese share market. Another triple digit loss on Wall Street overnight impacted sentiment, while profit taking also seemed to be in vogue.

More device owners are dumping their dumb phones for smartphones as many have done recently. Data from research firm Gartner showed that for the second quarter of 2013, smartphone sales for the first time exceeded that of feature or dumb phones, accounting for 51.8 per cent of the market share.

The Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust (MSSAT), a support group, urged New Zealand parents to believe their sons if their male kids complain of sexual abuse.

The Australian share market is under heavy selling pressure at lunchtime on Friday, after Wall Street suffered another triple digit loss overnight.

Do you want to make more money? Then have sex four times a week, a German study recommends.

Organisers of the Vancouver Science World Exhibit banned two print ads that they deemed too sexy for public exhibition, specifically in outdoor space such as bus shelters. The decision what to place in such locations is in the hands of municipalities and display companies.

The mother of an 18-year-old student at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, is protesting the school's requiring her daughter to appear topless in a play. The daughter, a creative arts student, was warned that she may not get lead roles in school stage productions if she is hesitant to shed of her clothes, at least her blouse off.

About 1,700 local workers employed by mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) will lose their jobs at the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. Rio blamed the lay-offs to the stop in the $5 billion expansion plan ordered by the Mongolian government.

The flip phone is back, and behind its return is not Google's Motorola which was famous for its Razr line of flip phones, but South Korean tech giant Samsung.

The Australian sharemarket finished a touch lower, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) slipping by just 0.1 per cent or 4 pts. Continued concerns of Fed tapering in QE is still keeping investors on edge in the US, with the DOW slipping by 0.75 per cent.

The Australian share market remains flat in early trade on Thursday, as investors weigh up profit results against a triple digit loss on Wall Street overnight.

Microsoft will release this week its latest version of keyboard called Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard.

Filipino actor Cesar Montano vehemently denied on Tuesday the marital rape charge filed on Monday by his estranged wife Sunshine Cruz.