Vittorio Hernandez

Now it can be told. Former Glee star Charice Pempengco initially planned to admit that she is a lesbian in a U.S. TV programme hosted by another famous lesbian, Ellen DeGeneres.

Many women have silicone implants on their areas just to move sizes from Cup A to Cup D, but for Washington teen Brittany Minder, being too buxom proved to be a problem, at least for one night.

The Australian share market was sharply sold off during Wednesday's trade as economic growth figures missed expectations and as Japanese stocks shed almost four per cent on Prime Minister Abe's growth strategy.

A Clean Energy Council report said that Australia produced a record 13 per cent higher renewable energy in 2012 from clean electricity sources such as hydro, wind and solar.

The Australian market is slumping for the second time this week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) down 1.00 per cent. Local shares are currently at their lowest levels since mid-January, pushed lower by a disappointing growth reading just before lunch. Comments by another Federal Reserve official overnight supporting a slowing in stimulus kept US investors on edge. Many market participants are remaining pensive ahead of the monthly non-farm payrolls out this Friday (US jobs report).

Sydney is counting on a 20-year airport masterplan to handle the expected doubling of passengers to 74 million by 2023, making it unnecessary to build a second airport.

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is on a losing streak with its ongoing court cases against South Korean rival Samsung. A few days after The Netherlands Supreme Court rejected Apple's bid to ban the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) declared that the company violated the patent of Samsung which will cause the importation ban on four Apple products for AT&T.

In a repeat of the first Click Frenzy incident, the Web site of Australian retail giant Myer crashed on Tuesday evening due to the heavy volume of logins. The crash happened 30 minutes after the online launch of its mid-year sale.

Raquel Pempengco, the equally controversial mother of former Glee star Charice Pempengco, has given up on her daughter following the 21-year-old singer's admission that she is lesbian.

Having fallen by more than 6% in recent weeks, the selling that has defined the period dried up on Tuesday and the ASX200 finished with a gain. The durability of the improvement remains the main question as we move towards the blue ribband event of the week, the US Non-Farm Payroll Report due on Friday.

After a negative start to the session's trade, the Australian share market is slightly firmer at lunchtime in the East.

That famous line from the movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 was tattooed on the chest area of former Glee Star Charice Pempengco as a love offering for her girlfriend, upcoming singer Alyssa Quijano.

Is Jonah Falcon, the man with the world's biggest penis, the next YouTube sensation?

From being secretive about her true gender preference, former Glee star Charice Pempengco has become an open person overnight after her admission on television on Sunday that she is lesbian.

Thanks to the free publicity given by a Filipino official to the latest novel of American author Dan Brown, Inferno, the book's sale increased by 50 per cent in the Philippines.

Crocodile attacks in Australia are on the rise, especially in the northern part of the country where an estimated 130,000 saltwater crocs are freely roaming and snapping, biting and eating animals and humans. The rise in population of croc is attributed to the hunting ban that wildlife authorities enforced in the early 1970s.

Sellers continued to make their presence felt in local trade on Monday ahead of a big week of economic news. The US will hold investor focus globally this week with several tier one data releases anticipated. The week will culminate with the main gauge of US employment, the Non-Farm Payroll report. Locally the menu is lighter by comparison although the RBA decision on Tuesday and the National Accounts data (GDP) on Wednesday will each have a significant bearing on investor sentiment.

The Australian sharemarket has kicked off the session in the red, following a tough end to the week in global markets. The ASX 200 Index (XJO) is down 0.1 per cent; however things could have been worse following a 1.3 per cent slump across the US on Friday.

While economists agree that an overnight cash rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is unlikely this week, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans foresees the current 2.75 per cent key lending rate likely plunging to record low 2 per cent.

Economist Nouriel Roubini, in a fearless forecast on Project Syndicate, projected that the price of gold would likely plummet to about $1,000 before the end of 2015.

A study by Cisco found that 90 per cent of young people in Australia, or those under 30 years old, fear having no mobile phone. That fear is called nomophobia.

Microsoft is cutting prices of its Surface tablets in what is seen as the tech giant unloading its inventory to prepare for refreshing the Surface line.

Apple is in danger of losing its hold on the tablet market, a study by ABI Research said on Thursday. Although the study did not place a definite timetable when would the 50 per cent market share of the Cupertino-based tech firm in the first quarter of 2013 lose its crown, it attributes the threat to the growing acceptance of Android tablets in China.

Her fears that she might lose fans over her admission that she is lesbian turned out to be unfounded. Minutes after former Glee star Charice Pempengco admitted on national television of her true gender preference, Twitter was filled with tweet of Chasters, Charice's fan base, that they still love and support the 21-year-old international singer.

Although she had a coming out party on May 10 to celebrate as well her 21st birthday, former Glee star Charice Pempengco never publicly admitted she is a lesbian, only hinting to her fans her gender preference via changing her haircut and clothes to masculine look.

Cupertino-based tech firm Apple failed in its bid to block the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe after the Supreme Court of The Netherlands issued the landmark decision on Friday.

Fresh from her coming out party in early May, former Glee star Charice Pempengco thanked her fans for their continued support despite receiving so many negative comments from the public for her changed physical appearance.

Besides releasing in October 2013 the Moto X smartphone, Motorola Mobility's first handset since it was acquired by Google, the company is working on new methods that would make remembering passwords unnecessary.

The Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala erupted over the weekend, spewing volcanic material more than 400 metres in the air and could disrupt air travel in Guatemala. The country's Institute of Vulcanology warned that the eruption could rise as high as 1,000 to 2,000 metres.