The huge blue and white Israeli flag was spread out at Gaza strip in Israel simultaneously with the Philippine’s largest flag.

Two French boys have been charged for for the rape of a 10-year-old girl that they recorded on video using a mobile phone.

There were about 1,800 people who stripped naked for photographer Spencer Tunick at the stadium that will host the Euro 2008 soccer final.

In the 2nd season of Britain’s Got Talent, a Filipina was able to get a standing ovation and a vote from the three judges, she is the 32-year-old single mother, Madonna Decena.

In Hokkien: Keong hee huat chye!
In Cantonese: Kung Hei Fat Choi!
In English: Congratulations and be prosperous!
Advance greetings of prosperity from toingks.com as we, together with our Chinese friends celebrate the Chinese New Year which we all know is the Year of the Rat.

Times Square has been the cream of the cream of New Year’s Eve celebrations for more than a century.
Amid stringent security measures, hundreds of thousand of people gathered at Manhattan’s fabled Times Square late Monday (US Eastern time) to greet the New Year.

Despite the published indecent pictures of Miss Valerie Begue who was crowned Miss France this month, she was told that she can keep her title.

Miss France 2008 winner Valerie Begue faces a call to resign after a compromising picture was published. The brunette was demanded by the head of Miss France committee to give up her 2-week-old crown after her photo emerged.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association lists the nominees for the 65th Golden Globe Awards happening on January 13, 2008.

Texas rapper Chad “Pimp C” Butler received a Grammy Nomination two days after his death.

The Archdiocese of New York is handing out coling books and comic books that warn kids about sex predators which also might include priests.

In the concluded Miss California USA pageant held last November 25, 2007, a wrong counting of ballots led to the wrong woman crowned as Miss California USA and is asked to give up te crown for the real winner.

The Hollywood screenwriters walked off the job and went on strike starting at 12:01 a.m.

In Beijing China, more than 300 set of twins gathered together to celebrate their fourth annual Twin Festival in their honor.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was able to hit two birds in one stone when she left for an official visit to the United States.