Jamelle Agbuis

Matthew Fitzpatrick beat Oliver Goss in the final to win the US Amateur Championship and end England's drought in the tournament.

World number one Tiger Woods said he was merely erring on the side of caution when he decided to play just nine holes during Wednesday's ProAm.

Although the idea that spiders come indoors when it gets cold is a myth, many people believe they see more spiders in their homes in the late fall and winter time and become concerned about spider bites.

If you own pets, it is probably worth your while to take a closer look at what you are feeding them to determine whether or not it is actually safe.

Coenzyme Q-10 was first identified in 1955 in England. It was isolated as an electron carrying coenzyme involved with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, the energy molecule of cellular mitochondria.

'CBA's record result delivers Narev $7.8m pay cheque' said a headline in the Business section of The Australian yesterday. According to the article, the CEO's salary package rose to $2.1m compared to last year. Nice work.

Gold, stocks, bonds - all the major markets seem to have turned around in the last six months. Bond investors have been the worst hit. Many have losses of 20% or more. Surely, there are some major financial problems hidden beneath these figures. Sooner or later, they will show up in the headlines...with the announcement of bankruptcies and defaults.

We expected the summer trading to drag on...and then the markets to set off on their new trends after 1 September: Stocks down. Bonds down. Gold up.

Beats reportedly wants an investor with more money. HTC the Taiwanese manufacturer is apparently set for a permanent split from audio company Beats by Dr. Dre, in which it acquired a 50.1% stake for US$300 million in August 2011.

A Palestinian security expert who goes by the name of Khalil Shreateh has exposed a Facebook security flaw by posting an alert on site creator Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page to prove the legitimacy of his bug report, after the social network giant's security team ignored his previous reports on the vulnerability.

Slowly, but very surely, the world's Great Power democracies are slipping into totalitarianism, all the while swearing that the transition away from liberty and freedom is for our own good.

Dow down, gold up. That's two days in a row. We don't know what to make of it! Actually, we're not sure many people know what to make of the overnight action. Markets were all over the shop and the usual explanations for why things happen didn't seem to stack up.

Markets are looking 'toppy' as our colleague Greg Canavan has been saying. We've had a few days of stocks falling and gold rising. That's an odd combination.

The guyabano, or otherwise known as the custard apple or sour sop fruit, is deemed as one of the miracle cures for cancer.

Complex things are more fragile, says Nassim Taleb, author of the books The Black Swan and Antifragile. Your computer and its misbehaviours are daily proof. You can click on the same button as yesterday only to get completely different results. And encoded error messages are absolutely no help.

Refined sugar is a drug that is similar to opiates in its power to become addicted to it. The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs stated in a study published in 2010 that sugar releases euphoric endorphins in some people's brains in a manner very similar to that of certain drugs which are commonly abused. "Sugar addiction" follows the same pathways in the brain that a habit-forming drug does. Fortunately, sugar cravings can be stopped within a week of withdrawing from the white crystals.

Reportedly according to the reports, Sony's Honami would be coming out in the spotlight by September 4, this year. From the moment that Sony sent out invites for their pre-IFA event . And any are hoping to see the Xperia Honami there.

In order to make its users feel safe from NSA tracking, Google has started server side encryption of its Cloud Storage Data as according to the blog post on the Google's official Cloud Platform Blog.

The Galaxy Note 3 and the galaxy Gear which were to be rumored to be announced in late September may be shipping this Early September ! As rumored the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will be announced on 4th September at IFA 2013 where the company would announce the release plans of the devices.

When the Google Nexus was announced the team that launched it, ensured almost double increase in the entertainment and experience and performance, 1.8x to be specific.

Google recently announced the TV streaming device known as Google Chromecast. Well, despite its name, nothing matches with Chrome.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 has wowed a lot of people soon after its release, which is one of the most possible reasons why the South Korean company decided to offer it in a cheaper, smaller version - the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini.

Motorola recently launched their latest flagship phone, namely the Moto X. The phone has some great specifications and hardware inside. And also the software, it sports the Jelly Bean Version 4.2.2. But how well, will this phone perform against the Apple iPhone 5? Well lets find that out.

Equity markets have survived the last few years on the mantra that 'bad news is good news'. Each time GDP slowed, unemployment rose or confidence crumbled, stocks surged.

Yesterday, Wall Street stirred. The Dow fell. Gold rose. We believe these are portents of coming trends. The bond market has topped out. The stock market has topped out. Gold has bottomed. Stay tuned for confirmation...or further guesswork.

Well, this is kind of confusing. In a week when commodities and mining stocks get a general lift, the Wall Street Journal puts the spotlight on Chinese banks and finds a lot to reckon with on the downside.

Are we getting closer to the end of QE? The US bond market certainly thinks so. Overnight, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose 14 basis points, to 2.72%. Market interest rates are now hovering around their highest levels in years.

Yesterday we were talking about the gold market in terms of paper gold. The volume of gold paper sloshing around the market is huge compared to the volume of physical gold that underpins it. Price discovery happens in the paper market.

The flip phones were quite have been hit by the rocks, and wasn't on the news for many years. But thanks to Samsung, we got an glimpse over an Android-powered Android flip phone, which seems more of an old gizmo with new specifications.