Vittorio Hernandez

It's an eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth law in the ongoing war with the Islamic State (IS) on one side and the US-led coalition on the other side. After France, a member of the coalition, refused to stop its air strikes in Iraq, the IS beheaded a Frenchman, Herve Gourdel, whom it kidnapped in Algeria on Sunday.

Even if Philippine shopping giant SM had removed the offensive rape joke T-shirt from its flagship store in Megamall, the apparel continues to be available online.

The S&P is yet to experience four consecutive days in the red this year after closing in the green overnight.

A day after reports of the newly released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus bending when placed in the pants pocket came out, it spawned immediately a spoof page and comparison test.

In US economic data, new home sales surged by a surprising18% in August to a seasonally adjusted rate of 504,000 units - the highest level in six years. Despite the rise in sales the stock of new houses lifted to a four-year high. At August's sales pace it would take 4.8 months to clear the supply of houses on the market.

The clamour for the dream match to happen before Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao retire from professional boxing just got louder when the World Boxing Council (WBC) said on Wednesday that two boxing greats should settle their differences and make the fight happen.

The newly released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were declared by DxOMark as camera kings after the two flagship smartphones from Cupertino-based Apple got scores of 82, dethroning the Sony Xperia 23.

Ogling at naked bodies of people seems to be a natural human trait. While some people are content enjoying the unclothed beauty of their partners, others would go to great lengths to take a peek at other people in various states of undress without their knowledge or consent. That is the reason why the Internet is agog at the ongoing nude photo leaks of female celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and on a local scale, the reason why a 19-year-old Greek male migrant was sentenced on Wednesday by the...

Most of the vim and vigour for the local market was seen within the first few hours of trade today. During this time sellers trampled on the gains of yesterday and for the remainder of the session the market ebbed and flowed within sight of the lows of the session. The tone of the session deteriorated after a late push was made by sellers which succeeded in pushing the market to new lows for the day. The ASX 200 after trading at 5378.3points at midday closed the session slightly lower by 0.7 of ...

LG and Samsung may boast of curved screens on their smartphones, but the newly released iPhone 6 from Apple may even have curved bodies, although it appears unintentional on the part of the Cupertino-based tech giant.

With the release of new flagships, tech Web sites see the occasion as an opportunity to subject the gadgets to torture tests, which PhoneBuff did with Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

The most pressing question for market participants ahead of Wednesday's trading session was whether the ASX 200 could sustain the gains that were made a day earlier. To the disappointment of optimists, the answer was one offer almost immediately. Sellers pushed the index down 10 points at the first trade. The market was down 25 points before there were any visible signs that buyers were making some form of effort. At the lows of the morning the index had shed just over 52 points. Thereafter a...

The global slide continues - small cap equities saw sustained downward pressure and the trend is starting to spread to the large cap space as well.

As the boxing community waits for the result of Floyd Mayweather Jr's appearance before the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Tuesday to explain two scenes shown on the Showtime programme All Access, a news Web site hit the boxer for his alleged hypocrisy.

A photo of a T-shirt with an offending message became viral on Facebook and other social media sites after Filipinos criticised the manufacturer for its rape joke. The strong negative sentiment about the said apparel led Philippine mall giant SM Supermalls to pull out the item from its shelves.

Theo Zwanziger, German member of the executive committee of FIFA, the governing body of world football, said on Tuesday that Qatar won't host the 2022 World Cup.

About 700 miners or 7 per cent of the 10,000-strong workforce of BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) deployed in Queensland would soon lose their jobs.

Roubini Global Economics warned on Monday that Australia's economy would slow down in 2015 due to the weaker Chinese economy and trimmer Australian federal budget. It would lead to growth of only 2 per cent, more interest rate cuts and a 20 per cent decline in the value of the Aussie currency.

Opening trade for local stocks saw sellers remain with the upper hand in terms of conviction and in psychological terms. The ASX 200 was down by 6 points at first trade and went on to post a loss of 25 points at the worst levels of the morning. However as the first hour of trade was completed and the HSBC reading on Chinese manufacturing came into focus the ambition of sellers began to fade and a bottoming out process became evident. In the face of the sustained selling pressure that has been a ...

Although a climax or orgasm is considered one of the greatest pleasures in life, when a person comes 100 times a day, it becomes painful and makes life difficult. Such is the "hard" life that 37-year-old Dale Decker from Wisconsin is suffering the past two years after he suffered from a slipped disk in his back in September 2012 when he got out of a chair. Doctors diagnosed his ailment as Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome (PGAD).

The small global rout overnight will sharpen the focus on market conditions, forward expectations and market participation.

In US economic data, existing home sales fell by 1.8% to a 5.05 million annualised rate in August, short of forecasts tipping sales near 5.20 million. And the national activity index fell from 0.39 to minus 0.21 in August.

Young male jihadists are raping thousands of women in Iraq and Syria to raise an army of "believers" in the Islamic State. The fruit of the sexual molestation would populate the caliphate that the IS will establish.

Australia may be thousands of kilometres away from the Middle East where the Islamic State (IS) is on a beheading frenzy, having decapitated so far three foreigners, American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and Briton aid worker David Haines.

A move to boycott the Sept 13 rematch of Floyd Mayweather Jr and Marcos Maidana was not so successful, if unofficial figures that said the pay-per-view buys for the bout was about 925,000.

A Chinese e-commerce giant broke the 2010 IPO record set by another Sino firm, the Agricultural Bank of China, when it raised $22.1 billion capital via the share launch. On Monday, Alibaba Holdings Group (NYSE: BABA) raised $25 billion after underwriters sold 48 million more shares.

Most people would immediately flee at the first sign of an attacking crocodile, but an unnamed 20-year-old Australian who wrestled with the reptile and poked it in the eye.

It was a quiet day for company and economic news today which left little for participants to be inspired by, apart from raw sentiment. The sellers maintained their sense of purpose throughout the day. The market closed down again making it day 11 of 14 in the red, with the ASX 200 closing at 5363 points down 66 points or 1.29 per cent.

A 2 day break at the weekend has done little to dent the ambition of local sellers. Having lost almost 1.8 per cent last week, the ASX 200 opened flat although within the first half of the session the index had fallen by 20 points. Thereafter the Index plumbed new lows to be down by about 30 points at the worst levels of the morning.