Vittorio Hernandez

A YouTube video of a drunken 26-year-old man from Stockport, New Zealand in a failed prank has gone viral in the video sharing site with more than 187,000 views so far. The 47-second video showed Sean Martin go up the roof of a bus stop, bare his bottom and then fall through the plastic roof material.

Americans are not buying the explanation of Rolling Stone why the iconic magazine featured as its cover story a glamourised photo of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The fallout would be felt in the sales of the August 2013 issue as at least five retailers from the New England area would not sell Rolling Stone magazine. These are CVS, Walgreens, Rite Air, Stop & Shop, Roche Bros and Tedeschi Food.

Friday nights are gimmicks nights for many Filipino employees. But on July 12, Friday, many Metro Manila employees braved the weekend rush hour traffic to be home to catch the episode of the popular gay-themed soap opera My Husband's Love.

Did the last Superman lost the standard red trunks worn over the superhero's famous blue suit? Superman fans who have followed the adventures of the Man of Steel in theatres and TV from the time of Christopher Reeves in the late 1970s to Brandon Routh must have notice that the iconic red underwear was no longer on Henry Cavill by the time he donned on the costume of the superhero for the 2013 version of the much-loved movie.

Toward the end of season 3 of Glee, Finn Hudson proposed marriage to his girlfriend Rachel Berry, but the wedding plans fizzled out when Finn decided to set Rachel free to pursue her dream of becoming a famous artist. In real life, the same scenario just happened to the actors who played Finn and Rachel when Cory Monteith, who played Finn, died of alcohol and heroin overdose on Saturday, July 13.

The Bernanke speech may be in the rear view mirror now, but having navigated the main risk hurdle of the week markets have remained subdued. For much of the day the local index traded in a narrow range and volumes were equally constrained. The question to pose now: What's the next catalyst?

While its competitor Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) was short of its iron ore production for the first half of 2013, largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) had a strong year of production as it reported the miner's full 2013 financial year results.

Local stocks were enjoying some modest gains at lunchtime on Thursday reflecting the response to the Bernanke testimony overnight. The fact that price moves in the aftermath have been modest, in the main, indicates that investors are getting comfortable with the US central bank and its perspectives on quantitative easing. The real test will come when the Fed finally reduces the size of its monthly asset purchases from the current levels of $85bln.

Sun observers will be treated to some spectacular solar effects in the coming days as waves of particles from an enormous coronal mass ejection (CME) would pass Earth within three days. The solar phenomenon is called a geomagnetic storm, which is a normal event and would not directly harm humans.

Rolling Stone magazine defended its use of the image of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its August 2013 issue released on Wednesday.

Many people have surely heard that human or animal urine is a good fertiliser. However, researchers at the University of West England have discovered another good use for the liquid human waste product that gives eco-friendly and sustainability a fresh spin. The researchers invented a method to charge mobile phones using urine. First, they created a new microbial fuel cell (MFC) that converts organic matter such as piss into electricity.

Although China's Internet penetration rate was 42 per cent as of last count, the South Asian giant continues to hold on to the number one post in terms of users. A report from China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) released on Wednesday said the penetration rate went up by 2 per cent to 44 per cent as number of users rose to 591 million.

The Amazon Kindle Fire is one of the tablets that reportedly will have a next-generation model, which is why tech experts recommend for people who are on tighter budget and want to take advantage of price cuts on 2012 models to consider this gadget.

The end to eight division boxing title holder Manny Pacquiao's 18-year boxing career appears to be in sight. Freddie Roach, the coach of the Filipino champ, said on Wednesday that the champ would retire from professional boxing if he loses his bout with American boxer Brandon Rios on Nov 24 in Macau, China.

The pattern of trade seen this morning continued over the remainder of the day as investors turned over the possibilities to emerge from Fed Chairman Bernanke's semi-annual testimony to the US Congress later tonight local time.

U.S. carrier Verizon has scheduled an event on July 23, Tuesday, and hinted it would be the release date for three Motorola DROID phones.

Regional markets have started Wednesday's session in cautious fashion as investors wait for US Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's semi-annual testimony to the US Congress. The Bernanke testimony is split into 2 parts: Prepared remarks are released at 10:30pm AEST; and the committee hearing, which includes the Q & A session commences at midnight AEST. The prepared remarks will likely reflect the views of the FOMC as a group. To this end Mr Bernanke is likely to reiterate the perspective th...

From a hated terrorist to a dreamy teen heartthrob - that's the transformation that image makers at Rolling Stone magazine are peddling for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are peddling.

Mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) will appeal a decision by the New South Wales Supreme Court ordering the company to play Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, $200 million.

At the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology yearly conference last week, fertility experts were divided if there is a global sperm crisis looming amid an observation of declining sperm count in the past 10 years.

Despite the stress that heroine Rachel Donaire went through just days before she gave birth, the wife of Filipino boxer Nonito Donaire's delivered a healthy baby boy through Caesarian operation on Tuesday, July 16.

The speculations were true after all - Glee star Cory Monteith died of alcohol and heroin overdose, a report by the British Columbia coroner said.

There are too many parallels in the real life of Canadian actor and Glee star Cory Monteith and his TV persona Finn Hudson. The similarities is also evident in his last film McCanick where he played a drug addict, amid speculations by fans and the public that overdose could probably be the cause of his demise on Saturday, July 13.

It was another quiet day for the Australian market, with only a 3pt rise for the All Ordinaries index (XAO). On a positive note, equities managed to rise for the sixth session, making it the longest winning streak since mid-January for local shares. Since the start of the year, the XAO is up 6.5 per cent while the US Dow is 18 per cent stronger and the stimulus fuelled Nikkei 39.5 per cent higher.

Australian wine marker Treasury Wine Estates will destroy gallons of wine recently because of weak wine sales in the U.S. The company said it would charge the losses, estimated at $145 million, against its U.S. business for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

US stocks closed higher again, another record high for the Dow Jones and the Broader S&P 500 indices. Good numbers from Citi group helped send not only the US indices but also the UK banking sector overnight. Boeing shares higher after Friday's slump. The US building sector was held back yet again - as investors start to look at the rising 30 year mortgage rates in the states and weight up the chances of a pullback in home lending rates.

Expect sales of the Ford Focus to zoom because the model just got a poster boy who has 1.2 billion followers. Pope Francis arrived on Monday at the papal summer residence Castel Gandolfo aboard a Ford Focus, which costs $16,000.

Is technology giant mending fences with its competitors after filing lawsuits against them left and right? It appears so based on two news reports that came out on Monday.

The photo of a carcass that looked like an alien became viral in the Internet. The picture, taken by a 17-year-old son of a national park ranger in South Africa, showed a thin corpse with gnarled teeth and shrunken head.