Vittorio Hernandez

British Prince Harry, who once was photographed naked with Las Vegas women while playing strip poker, is considered a knight in shining armour by a gay British soldier.

The continuous decline of gold prices the past few weeks has caused Newcrest Mining, Australia's largest gold miner, to write down $6 billion in assets and downsize operations.

Judge Mitchel Beckoff ordered over the weekend a probate court investigator to make a report on the health, welfare and education of Paris Jackson after the suicide attempt of Michael Jackson's daughter, which reports said is not her first.

Despite the hurt caused by former Glee star Charice Pempengco turning her back on her family in favour of her girlfriend, upcoming singer Alyssa Quijano, the mother of the 21-year-old international singer, Raquel Pempengco, is will to accept the reality that Charice no longer treats Raquel as her mother.

BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) just finalised the sale of its interest in the $45 billion Browse liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia. The number 1 miner sold its interest to PetroChina for $1.7 billion.

After Labor lost the last state election in 2012, former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is now battling cancer. The 52-year-old politician was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after a tumour was removed from her neck at the St Vincent Hospital in Sydney last week.

After her admission on Sunday that she is lesbian, former Glee star Charice Pempengco declared that she now feels free as a bird in expressing herself by her words and deeds.

Just days after mother and daughter Raquel and Charice Pempengco admitted being lesbians, another lesbian row hit Manila over the weekend after a popular cartoonist resigned. Pol Medina Jr., author of the 25-year Pugad Baboy (Pig Sty) cartoon in the Philippine Daily Inquirer quit after nuns from St Scholastica's College protested his strip that says the school condones lesbianism among its all-female students.

Share prices of South Korean tech giant Samsung slipped more than 6 per cent on Friday over the slow sales of the Galaxy S4 smartphone, its flagship.

South Korean chemical engineer Jang-Ung Park is developing a contact lens with functions similar to Google Glass. The lens uses a transparent, highly conductive and stretchy mix of grapheme and silver nanowires which were tested on rabbits and found to have no bad effect after five hours of use.

Amid claims that Australia's 457 visas for skilled workers is being abused by employers, the Australian Sex Workers' Association (ASWA) is calling on the federal government to allow the entry of foreign sex trade workers using that visa category.

Katherine Jackson appears to have opened again a can of worms again against her son, deceased Pop King Michael Jackson, when she filed a $40-billion lawsuit against the London producers of Michael's concert, AEG.

If former Glee Star Charice Pempengco is now torn between her family and her current girlfriend, upcoming singer Alyssa Quijano, what would it be like had she pursued instead another ABS-CBN singer, Sarah Geronimo.

Identity crisis appears to run in the Relucio family, the maternal side of former Glee star Charice Pempengco. While the 21-year-old international singer's public admission on Sunday of being lesbian didn't surprise Filipinas, on Friday, Charice's mother threw a bigger surprise by admitting she used to be a tomboy too.

Another week has passed where sellers have continued to define the market atmosphere. The ASX200 has lost the most part of 10% since the early part of May. The defining aspect of market volatility during this period has been the open debate moderated by the US Fed on the winding back of quantitative easing. Adding another dimension the selling in local terms has been the pace of profit downgrades from corporates in recent week. This last point talks to the recent flow of economic news which has ...

The Australian sharemarket is sliding for the third straight day, with the ASX200 Index down by close to 1 per cent at lunch. This is adding to the back to back 1 per cent falls on Wednesday and Thursday. Investors are feeling somewhat jittery ahead of a non-farm payrolls report out later tonight, in addition to the closure of the Aussie market on Monday due to a public holiday.

So far our call that the ASX could see a winter wonderland has been put firmly on hold, as the market has be catapulted miles north of the wall, as horrible macro data muddies the water.

The Australian Dollar is higher this morning after some very large moves in key international currencies in the last 24 hours with volatility extreme.

In US economic news, initial jobless claims fell by 6,500 to 346,000 in the final week of May. Net financial wealth grew by $3 trillion to $70.3 trillion - the biggest quarterly increase in 14-years. Rising stock prices and home pushed net household wealth to a fresh record high. US ICSC chain store sales rose by 3.2pct in May compared with a year ago.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is a traditionalist when it comes to family life, announced on Thursday over television that he has separated from his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila.

After being hit hard by the price war between Australian supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, some relief is in sight for the country's dairy farmers when milk processor Murray Goulburn offered them the highest ever opening milk price of $5.60 per kilomgramme solid.

The Sunday admission of former Glee star Charice Pempengco that she is lesbian created a stir in Philippine and international media. Few may be aware, but about six months ago, another Filipina performer who had achieved international stardom also admitted she is lesbian, but her outing was subdued.

While end time prophets believe the numbers 666 is the number of the beast mentioned in the last Biblical book of Revelation, there are different opinions what the real mark of the beast is, which would be the sign of the anti-Christ.

The Australian dollar ended the day's trade in the red for the third session this week. Local stocks are now holding at levels not seen since January.

Chris Beck's transformation from a decorated U.S. Navy SEAL member to a woman, now known as Kristin Beck, is retold in her memoir titled Warrior Princess: A US Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming Out Transgender, an eBook published on Saturday.

Jacob's Creek, an Australian wine brand has developed The Wine Line iPhone app to promote responsible drinking. The app computed the number of standard drinks in a glass of wine.

The Australian share market remains under selling pressure on Thursday following weakness from offshore markets. The Aussie dollar has also been under pressure in early trade, briefly dipping below US95c for the first time since October 2011.

Unlike many celebrity-couples who claim to media they are just friends when they are in a relationship, former Glee star Charice Pempengco said she will not attempt to hide the real score between her and girlfriend Alyssa Quijano, an upcoming singer.

Buying sex toys is often an embarrassing experience for many people that they often need to hide the item from their family members. However, an Oregon woman had the double embarrassing experience of having to report to the police that her sex toys stash were stolen from her car trunk.