Vittorio Hernandez

The Royal Institute of Australia in Adelaide will publicly perform vasectomies on Aussie men for free on Oct 18 to mark World Vasectomy Day. The procedure will be done in front of a live audience of 150 people and via streaming through the Internet.

The Australian share market is holding at one month highs in early trade on Wednesday, following gains on US and European markets overnight. US stocks managed to make it four wins in a row as investors were encouraged by the start of the earnings season. Aluminium giant Alcoa was first to report, with its earnings coming in in line with market expectations.

Los Angeles banned on Tuesday the Project Runway billboard of the TV programme's host Heidi Klum for being too sexy. The billboard is for season 12 of the popular reality show.

The Coalition is offering senior bureaucrats paid bonuses under an Abbott government. The move is seen as an effort by the Opposition to counter the strong performance of Prime Minister and Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd in the latest poll.

The Sony Xperia Tablet Z has emerged as techies' favourite, with the device topping the list of tablets recommended for people who are considering purchasing one.

Mobile phone makers that use the Gorilla Glass for screens on phones and tablets they produce will soon be able to offer new qualities to their devices once Corning finishes developing its glass technology that is anti-reflective and anti-microbial.

If it were all up to televangelist Pat Robertson, he would add a Vomit button to Facebook as a response to newsfeed or photos or videos he does not like whenever checking the most popular social media site.

The Australian share market managed to recover today, thanks to strong offshore gains and as investors chasing yield bought into the banks. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) rose 68.9pts or 1.4 per cent today to 4866.5pts.

Travel plans of thousands of passengers were disrupted for several days after four more U.S. air carriers canceled at least 10 flights from Mexico City as the country's Popocatepetl Volcano continued its activity.

Following on from a 0.6 per cent fall yesterday, the Australian market is being pushed higher by global market strength. Overnight, US stocks rose for the third straight session, while the major European markets improved by as much as 2 per cent thanks to solid data. On the economic front, Chinese inflation remains under control while Australian business confidence is sluggish.

The shared gaming moments of 23-year-old Swedish gamer Felix Kjellberg through his PewDiePie channel are the most viewed videos the past week, garnering almost 50 million hits.

The ANC ruling party in South Africa is calling for a shift to a modern method of male circumcision after 30 more deaths due to the use of ritual circumcision were reported on Tuesday.

The British monarchy is joining social media - at least one of them. Prince Andrew, the fourth in line to the throne so far until the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton's baby, just joined Twitter, using the handle @TheDukeOf York.

While Hollywood A-lister Angeline Jolie had a post-surgery interview to share to the world her double mastectomy surgery, British newsreader Bridgid Nzekwu held a boobs party prior to undergoing the same medical procedure.

The worse has not yet come for the gold market. Commodities expert Jim Rogers warned that the price of the yellow metal could fall to $900 an ounce.

Developers of the very popular game Candy Crush are crushing their way to the bank. Reports said that King, the developer of the addicting game played by young and old alike is earning about $633,000 a day.

Australian Labor Party leader and second-time Prime Minister Kevin Rudd continues to reap the benefit of his return to power with the latest poll as proof that he is indeed a threat to Opposition leader Tony Abbott's ambition to be Australia's 29th prime minister.

Better than expected employment numbers in the US at week's end and gains for US stocks failed to translate to gains for the local market on Monday. There was a fillip at the outset of trade with some modest gains, although the gains were short lived and the index spent most of the day in the red.

Australian shares kicked off the week in the red, only to rise by around 0.3 per cent in early trade, trade flat at one point and then shoot lower by lunch. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is now down by 0.8 per cent, after a 1 per cent improvement recorded over the previous week.

Acer just rolled out in the U.S. and other global markets the Acer Iconia W3, the first 8.1-inch Windows 8 tablet. This makes the gadget the smallest PC, bringing the full PC and entertainment features in a small device.

With both top smartphone makers suffering from weaker sales of their flagship devices, Samsung and Apple's rivalry - which could be seen from court battles to TV adverts - will be revived anew with the release of a new advert by the South Korean tech giant.

Although the HTC One impressed a lot of techies with its features, the sales record of the Taiwanese tech firm is definitely not impressive because its profit plummeted 83 per cent to $41.63 million based on total revenues of $2.35 billion in the second quarter of 2013.

Heroism appears to run in the Filipino-American couple Nonito Jr. and Rachel Donaire. While Nonito, the boxer, slugs it out in the ring to win medals for the country, his pregnant wife jumped into waters on Thursday to save a drowning boy.

An eight-year-old Sydney boy was accidentally exposed to a hardcore porno image while viewing the Lions ticket promotion of flag carrier Qantas on its Facebook page on Friday.

Speculations said that the Nokia Lumia EOS will be in Microsoft Stores by July 22, which means it will be available on store shelves by the later part of the month. A screenshot of a Microsoft Store inventory showed a Nokia device called the 1020 said to be an AT&T exclusive.

The Australian Labor Party ran the first electoral campaign on Sunday night, even ahead of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announcing a new date for the federal election.

Despite Samsung shipping 20 million units of the Galaxy S4 in June and the South Korean tech giant logging a 47 per cent boost in profit for the second quarter of 2012, the Seoul-based company is headed for a downgrade.

The Hong Kong High Court sent to jail for 12 years on Friday Feng Shui expert Peter Chan for forging the will of Nina Wang, once the richest woman in Asia who was his lover.

Chileans are hotly debating whether to allow an 11-year-old rape victim to abort her baby or not. The pre-teener, named in media as Belen, was raped by the partner of her mother and is now 14 weeks pregnant.