Vittorio Hernandez

The Planet Fitness gym appears to be sending out conflicting messages to its members to meet its policy that bans gym-timidation.

If Natalia Poklonskaya, the new attorney-general of Crimea, is the Internet darling of Japanese netizens, her male version in Australia is Lieutenant Russell Adams from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), the handsome pilot involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 jet.

American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr is the cover boy of the Black Enterprise Magazine for its March 2014 issue.

The Bully Zero Foundation launched over the weekend the 48-hour Digital Detox initiative at the Essendon Football Club's Tullamarine base to emphasise the lack of tolerance for online bullying.

Despite 2 Iranian male passengers known to have used stolen passports and another passenger with knowledge of flight simulation, Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein declared on Friday that foreign intelligence agencies cleared all the passengers aboard the ill-fated Flight 370.

After 2 weeks of frustrating but seemingly fruitless search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 747 jet, another glimmer of hope of solving the mystery of the aircraft's disappearance appeared.

The global aviation industry and governments have yet to resolve the mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 when another air tragedy occurred on Saturday. Courier Mail reported that the Cessna 206 crashed at Caboolture Airport at about 11:30 am and burst into flames at the airfield north of Brisbane, Queensland. The air mishap killed all five people aboard the small jet, namely the male pilot, two male skydiving instructors and a male and female skydiver.

Pope Francis admonished on Friday the Italian Mafia, exposed in the 1980s film The Godfather, to repent of their sins or go to hell.

The Australian share market recovered somewhat from yesterday's sell-off during Friday's trade following a rebound on Wall Street and strong gains from mining and energy players.

Guess who just used a #ThrowbackThursday hashtag on Instagram? It's not Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus or one of the Kardhasian sisters. It's Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now more known as Pope Francis.

The Australian sharemarket is edging higher at lunch, following a hefty 1.12 per cent slump recorded on Thursday. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is up 0.34 per cent, with mining stocks the biggest contributors to today's strength. U.S. stocks improved by 0.7 per cent overnight.

As commentators continue to debate the fall-out from Yellen's first run as chair after quantifying 'a considerable amount of time' as around six months. The markets have moved on from the press conference by completely erasing all losses from her speech.

In US economic data, new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 5,000 to 320,000 in the latest week. Existing home sales fell by 0.4% to 4.60 million in February, as expected. The leading index rose by 0.5% in February, above forecasts for a 0.2% gain. And the Philadelphia Federal Reserve index rose from minus 6.3 points to +9.0 in March, above forecasts for a result near +3.8 points.

Coach Freddie Roach, the trainer of eight-division titleholder Manny Pacquiao, lashed back at American boxer Timothy Bradley for saying that his ward no longer has the killer instinct.

Victoria will start this month, March, a two-year trial of commercial processing of kangaroo for its meat, the state government announced on Wednesday. The push for kangaroo meat sparked outrage from the animal welfare lobby and the Greens.

In yet another example of the continuous widening gap between executive pay and rank-and-file compensation, Sears Canada almost doubled the salaries of their top executives in 2013 while laying off about 2,000 employees.

Telecom giant Vodafone will cut the roaming charges for its pre- and post-paid subscribers to $1 per megabyte for a one-minute call. The new rate, which takes effect on March 23, would cut the 20 different call rates of Vodafone covering 200 different countries.

The announcement on Thursday by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott that the country's satellite captured images of 2 objects on the southern Indian Ocean gave a fresh glimmer of hope for an end to the 13-day search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 jet with 239 passengers and crew.

The larger piece of the two objects spotted by an Australian satellite in the southern Indian Ocean could possibly be the tail of the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 jet.

Local stocks fell for the second time this week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) down 1.1 per cent. No sectors escaped the selling by the close of trade, with losses between 0.2 per cent and 2 per cent recorded across the market. The mining sector was the biggest drag, slumping by 2.03 per cent. Australia's four largest miners - BHP Billiton (BHP), Rio Tinto (RIO), Newcrest Mining (NCM) and Fortescue Metals (FMG) wiped out 11.8 pts from the All Ordinaries Index (which fell by 60 pts today...

The Australian sharemarket is losing ground for the second day this week and is trading at a one-month low. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is down 0.9 per cent, with only the defensive utilities managing to rise modestly.

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen said through a tweet on Wednesday that he would bring back the popular online game to the App Store. However, he did not give a definite timetable when would the famous bird return.

Janet Yellen's first address as chair seems to be going smoothly. As expected, the Fed continued to taper its asset purchases program by moving the monthly rate by any other $10 billion to $55 billion from $65 billion a month, split evenly between treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.

The US FOMC meeting resulted in the Fed reducing monthly asset purchases from $65 billion to $55 billion. The minutes suggested a shift in forward guidance. The Fed dropped its promise to hold rates steady ´´well past the time´´ the US unemployment rate falls below 6.5% and will look to use a wide range of measures in deciding when to raise rates. The Fed´s assessment of the recent US economic weakness was chalked up to adverse weather conditions. The US Current account deficit narrowed from $96....

If there are female baby makers who rent their wombs for nine months to create a child which is given to another woman, often with fertility problem, to raise the infant as her own, in Germany there is a man who offers insemination service, but for free.

It probably is one of the most embarrassing moments for Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos when he was caught on camera with a wet spot growing on his beige trousers. The incident happened on Saturday while he was talking to political supporters in the coastal city of Barranquilla.

American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr may have made the mistake of picking Argentinean pugilist Marcos Maidana as his opponent in their May 3 bout. One of his expected last fights could turn out to be his first defeat, boxing experts warn.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is taking part in a global international investigation into foreign exchange rate riggings said to be as serious as the 2012 Libor rate scandal.

The U.S Department of Homeland scored a major victory against child pornography by busting on Tuesday a large Louisiana-based global child porn ring. The victims of the ring are teenage males from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium and the U.S. who were tricked to make sexually explicit videos of themselves.