Vittorio Hernandez

A scrotal lymphedema prompted 49-year-old Wesley Warren Jr to undergo a 13-hour surgery to reduce the size of his testicles which had ballooned to 132 pounds. The enlargement was the result of Mr Warren accidentally knocking his testicles while turning over in bed in 2008, which resulted in a sharp shooting pain that made the tissues around his scrotum swell.

Gays and lesbians have long ruled Philippine show business. But they were either behind the cameras as directors, choreographers and make-up artists or cast in comic roles like the multi-awarded actors Dolphy and Roderick Paulate.

After providing unsolicited advice on career and lovelife to former Glee star and now out lesbian Charice Pempengco, fellow lesbian Aiza Seguerra made beautiful music on Friday night singing David Guetta's hit song Titanium.

Besides a salary of $100,000 a year, which they will actually work only between August and December 2013, six mates from the U.S., Canada, France, Brazil, UK and Ireland were declared on Friday winners of Tourism Australia's Best Jobs in the World promo.

Despite the market making an effort to sneak into the black this afternoon, Australian shares still slipped modestly to make it two straight sessions of losses. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) slipped by just 0.4 per cent; a huge improvement from the close to 1.5 per cent falls 30 minutes into the day. The XAO fell 1.1 per cent this week.

For the second consecutive time, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd backed out on Friday of challenging current Prime Minister Julia Gillard as leader of the Australian Labor Party.

The Australian market is losing ground for the second consecutive session, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) down 0.3 per cent. The situation was dire this morning however, when the index was down by more than 1.5 per cent in early trade.

The number of young Australian males storing their sperm has gone up dramatically, an andrology expert disclosed on Friday as part of Andrology Australia's observation of Men's Health Week.

An expert advisory group warned of the possibility of 8 sites on brown coal mines across the Latrobe Valley collapsing. The warning is the result of an independent investigation in the collapse of the Morwell River diversion that inundated the Yallourn mine with 60 billion litres of water, damaged infrastructure and cut electricity for months from the nearby power plant.

Support for former Glee star Charice Pempengco continues to come in almost a month after she admitted she is lesbian. This time, the unsolicited advice about career and love life came from a fellow Filipino celebrity who like the international star struggled with coming out.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is raging mad at Dutch company LeaseWeb for deleting the bulk of files of his shuttered video sharing portal. He described what happened as the largest data massacre in the Internet's history.

The ruckus created by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard wearing a low cut top and showing cleavage has not died down. Instead, it started a trend in social networking, causing Facebook to be bombarded by photos mostly of Aussie woman showing the buxom side of their upper bodies.

The much vaunted US Fed meeting has come and gone, and some of the more significant market concerns have been realised. Chairman Bernanke re-iterated that risks facing US economic growth and employment had eased in recent months and as a result it was reasonable that the Fed should looking at slowing the pace of bond purchases (quantitative easing) later this year, with a view to ending the initiative by the middle of 2014. Whilst this was by no means a revelation, the commitment of the central ...

The Australian share market is being heavily sold off on Thursday, with weaker than expected Chinese manufacturing data (PMI) exacerbating the selling.

American rock star Bret Michaels, who wrote hit songs such as Talk Dirty to Me, claimed in an interview with Conan O'Brien that the 2009 porn film Busty Cops 3: To Protect and Serve caused his brain hemorrhage in 2010.

The AUD has fallen below USD 0.9300 for the first time since September 2010 after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the US Central Bank's stimulus measures would end in mid-2014.

As expected, QE tapering is coming; as expected, $85 billion a month is here to stay in the interim; as expected, a timeline was given and as expected these changes to the current programme are conditional to the state of the underlying economy.

In US economic news, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke reiterated its commitment to buying $85 billion in bonds per month given still-high unemployment. However the Fed did highlight that risks to growth and employment have lessened in recent months and as such it was likely that it could slow the pace of its bond purchases later this year and look to end the QE program by mid-2014. The Fed will not raise interest rates until unemployment fall below 6.5pct or provided inflation remains below 2.5...

All eyes are on the forthcoming baby of Prince William and Kate Middleton even as the royal couple prefers not to know in advance through technology the gender of their baby. However, there are speculations the baby would be a girl based on an alleged slip on the part of the mother.

The U.S. Naval Academy filed on Wednesday rape charges against three Naval football players for the sexual assault of a female midshipman in April 2012. The incident happened at an off-campus house in Annapolis.

A day after the Climate Commission released a report urging a slowdown to extraction of fossil fuels due to the negative impact of the use of oil and coal on the environment and climate, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman accused shady agents of killing the state's coal industry.

The fortunes of Australian mining billionaire Nathan Tinkler continues to reverse after financiers seized on Wednesday his $600 million 20 per cent controlling stake in Whitehaven coal.

Clive Palmer, Australia's mining billionaire who is daring Opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the prime ministership in the Sept 14 election is not bold enough when it comes to question concerning the resource industry.

People in their 40s or older who took typing classes would probably remember the sentence - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - which was used to teach typing beginners proper finger position. That sentence uses all the 26 letters of the alphabet.

The behaviour of financial markets in recent months has been defined by one issue. What will the Fed do with Q.E. To this end it's interesting to note how composed the markets have been in the last day given the import of the day ahead in the US. Wednesday in Washington will see the Fed conclude its 2 day meeting with a press conference. In this forum the US Fed Chairman is expected to provide some clarity in relation to its bond buying program. 'Tapering' has been an expression frequen...

Australian shares are trading close to the highest levels of the day, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) up 0.5 per cent. There still is significant hesitation ahead of the Federal Reserve's statement on monetary policy due at 4am (AEST) tomorrow morning. Investors are hoping for further clarification on the US central bank's plans on stimulus in the future.

There are two miners that have expressed interest in purchasing Rio Tinto's (ASX: RIO) $4 billion iron ore operations in Canada.

While many people would be happy to remove fat from their body, with some even undergoing procedures such as liposuction, a British paracyclist turned out to have a rare medical syndrome that causes him not to store fat.

The Minerals Council of Australia is not supporting the call by the Climate Commission for the resource industry to move away from coal as the commission pushes for a slowdown in mining of fossil fuels.