Vittorio Hernandez

The United States' wannabe first female president, Hillary Clinton, defended Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, in her new book titled Hard Choices.

While Floyd Mayweather Jr has flatly rejected fighting Manny Pacquiao at all, the royal family of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has not given up on the Dream Match between the two contenders for the pound-for-pound king title.

The word war between the Mayweather and Pacquiao camps continue, riding on the fresh victory of Miguel Cotto against Sergio Martinez on Saturday night.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ASB) will release on Thursday the country's unemployment figure, and it is expected to report a 5.9 percent joblessness rate for May.

Gains for the ASX 200 faded over the course of the afternoon. At the best levels of the session the index was ahead by 32 points, at the lows of the day the market was down by 1 point. At the closing bell the bourse ended with its nose in front by just over 5 points. Participation was lower than average with less than $4bln shares changing hands.

Spain is cutting its public deficit by massaging numbers. The manipulation comes in the form of including the value of the work of prostitutes as well as those in other illegal activities such as drugs, people trafficking and contraband.

The Australian share market is trading higher in the early session, as investors returned from the long weekend in a buying mood. Positive economic data out of the US overnight and solid Chinese trade data figures released on the weekend have given support to sentiment.

Yesterday's trade balance from China might be the first nominal piece of data that could confirm targeted easing is taking effect. May exports rose more-than-expected, by 7%, as overseas shipments ramped up on the back of improving signs from Europe and the US.

In US economic data, the employment trends index rose from 117.32 to 118.58 in May. On Friday, data showed a 217,000 lift in employment in May with the unemployment rate stable at 6.3%.

University of Akron scientists are developing a shatterproof touchscreen film that would provide greater protection to smartphones. So far, they have developed transparent electrodes that when layered on polymer surfaces would be transparent like the current ones made of indium tin oxide (ITO).

Even if commodity prices are on a downtrend, Australian miner Sundance Resources said over the weekend that it would go ahead with its $3.5-billion iron ore project in Cameroon.

After failing to find the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 in a defined area of the southern Indian Ocean, Australian officials have revised the search to a zone identified as the 7th arc.

In spite of a belief by Top Rank Promotions boss Bob Arum and promises by Prince Amir Shafipour that the Dream Match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather would still take place, Money May insisted he has lost interest in fighting the Filipino champ.

Besides the unfinished World Cup football stadiums days to the Thursday, June 12, opening of the FIFA-run sports event, Brazil got one more huge headache that could add to the embarrassment of the host-nation.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's household is embroiled in a nude photo scandal that the police had to be called to investigate.

Should the entertainment world expect a reformed 20-year-old Justin Bieber after the Canadian pop star's recent controversies?

Northern Territory Police appears to have found on Sunday the 62-year-old Australian man who was grabbed by a crocodile while cruising with his family along Kakadu National Park.

Spanish King Juan Carlos, who announced on Monday his plan to abdicate and pass on the crown to son Prince Felipe, may have started a possible "word war" with his British counterparts.

Because of his email to his employer of what he saw, New Zealander Mick McKay lost his job at an oil rig. McKay claimed to have seen the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 on fire and eventually crash.

A crocodile snatched an Australian man from a boat at the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory on Saturday afternoon.

The Australian sharemarket continued to improve this afternoon, taking the gains to almost 0.5 per cent. Gains from U.S. markets and the first interest rate cut in six months for the European Central Bank helped lift stocks overnight. Improvements from the major banks accounted for around half of the market's gains today.

The Australian sharemarket is rising for the first time in four trading days, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) up 0.4 per cent or 19.7pts to 5,438.8. U.S. stocks finished at record highs ahead of the May jobs report this evening. This is arguably the most highly anticipated piece of data to be released this week.

In yet another way of displaying his unorthodox method of running the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican bureaucracy, Pope Francis fired on Thursday the entire board of the Financial Information Authority (FIA), reports News.com.au.

Equities rallied with the S&P and the DAX printing fresh record highs on the back of the ECB decision. The most anticipated event of the week has been and gone and markets are now left to digest the results. While Mario Draghi seems to have thrown absolutely everything at it, markets have not quite had the euphoric reaction many would have expected. This could be largely in part due to the fact that the market already expected a comprehensive package that included a combination of a refinance ra...

The European Central Bank cut interest rates by 10 basis points: the refinancing rate now stands at 0.15%; the deposit rate stands at -0.10%; and the marginal lending rate or emergency borrowing rate stands at 0.40%. The ECB also introduced a package of targeted measures to further boost lending.

Eight-division title holder Manny Pacquiao and his business adviser, Michael Koncz, will look at some videos of potentials opponents of the Filipino boxer for his scheduled Nov 23 fight in Macau and decide whom he would fight.

While unbeaten American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr is busy cruising Miami aboard his yacht and spending the millions he earned on diamonds as well as "getting a confirmation from God that his lavish lifestyle is OK," his dad is likewise busy preparing for a new boxing reality TV show.

Eric Noyrez, CEO of rare earths producer Lynas Corporation (ASX: LYC) resigned from his post and will be replaced by Amanda Lacaze, Reuters reports.

What is it about military dictatorships that they use pretty and sexy women to help keep their leaders in power?