Lawrence Villamar

Assie swimmer Stephanie Rice denied having an affair with basketball star Kobe Bryant, a married man and father of two children.

So you can fish. But, can you catch a fish with bare hands and pull it out of a freezing water?

Kenya could become the first-ever African nation to host the Summer Olympic Games, reported the Financial Times on Thursday, after Prime Minister Raila Odinga announced his intention to bid for the 2024 Olympics in the capital of Nairobi.

As we mark the fifth-year of the global financial crisis today, experts from the United Nation's food agency have warned that soaring world food prices could lead to a repeat of the 2007/08 food crisis which hurt some of the world's poorest communities.

The Australian dollar lost ground against its US Counterpart on Friday after disappointing Trade Balance figures in China dampened demand for the higher yielding asset.

"Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman is again slapped with a lawsuit over the authorship of the successful comic series that has spun an equally popular television series.

The market share of Nokia (NYSE: NOK)'s Symbian, once the most shipped operating system, continue to plummet. It's down by as much 62.9%, from 16.9%.

Google's operating system Android dominates the world, while Apple's iOS maintained its dominance in the U.S. market.

The eurozone's second largest economy, France, is headed for another recession by the third quarter of the year, said the nation's central bank on Wednesday, with the newly-elected Hollande government expected to be forced into deep spending cuts in order to balance the country's books.

Dubai is an international and regional trading hub in the UAE and despite financial woes over the last few years, economic growth looks set to be strong for this glittering desert jewel in 2012.

The Australian was lifted higher yesterday after a robust jobs report showed Australian employers added 14 000 jobs in July. comfortably beating expectation.

Is Adelaide ready for an earthquake? A panel of four experts from South Australia will explore Adelaide's preparedness for an earthquake.

In a very uneventful day for the Australian dollar investors have seemed unwilling to take the higher yielding asset above the somewhat stubborn area of 1.0560 against its US Counterpart.

Does Australia's love for sport making it sick?

Do you want to get a tablet at bargain price? Dick Smith, an electronics vendor in Australia, is selling Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, once considered to be a serious contender for the iPad, for only A$276.

The Australian dollar continued its upward run yesterday reaching an afternoon high of 1.0602 against its US Counterpart after the RBA, as widely expected kept the official cash rate unchanged 3.50 percent.

Google just got spurned by Apple, once again. The latter has previously dropped Google Maps from its upcoming iOS 6.

The highly-anticipated iPhone 5 may have a thinner glass lens. A new report from claims that the supposed glass lens for the iPhone 5 is 0.1 mm thinner than that of the iPhone 4S.

With most of the second-quarter central bank meetings and bank results reporting concluded, we are looking at a relatively slow week ahead.

The Australian dollar rallied to a near 4 month high against its US Counterpart in early morning trade overnight as riskier backed assets gained on hopes that the ECB will shortly take decisive action in European Bond Markets in an attempt to lower borrowing costs for struggling nations such as Italy and Spain.

Will our gadgets, like tablets, become even more thinner? Right now, Toshiba Excite 10 LE is the thinnest tablet at 0.30 inch. Apple's new iPad, the current market leader, is 0.37 inch thick, thicker than its predecessor iPad 2, that clocked in a thickness of 0.34 inch. Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is actually a few millimeters thinner than iPad 2.

Comedian Will Ferrell had a breakdown over the break-up of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

China sees the Philippines as a US proxy. According to a foreign policy expert, this is the reason why Asian power is "overreacting" in the maritime and territorial dispute it has with the Philippines.

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is one the wealthiest investors and notable philanthropist of our generation.

When Mario Draghi, chief of the European Central Bank, vowed to defend the euro last week, analysts went as far as to speculate a lowering of interest rates and bond purchases by the bank. Yet the bank disappointed yesterday, offering nothing but inaction.

Steve Wozniak, the engineering genius behind Apple's computer, expressed some reservations on the shift from hard drive to cloud computing. To Wozniak, cloud computing less the control of computer users because of "legalistic terms of services".

The Australian dollar enjoyed another strong week against its US Counterpart, well supported by stronger than expected retail sales as well as the June Trade Balance which showed an unexpected small surplus.

The Australian dollar opens lower this morning following what was a rollercoaster ride of inflated expectations and disappointment following a lack of action taken by the ECB.

A smaller than expected expansion of the Chinese manufacturing sector caused share markets to slip during Asian hours and the Australian dollar lost 20 points on the initial release.