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Vancouver-based beauty queen Jenna Talackova, a transgender, who was booted out from the Donald Trump-owned Miss Universe Canada beauty pageant, will be able to compete in the contest, provided she meets the legal gender recognition requirements.

Girls Around Me, the infamous stalker app for iPhone, finally has been removed from the iTunes app store by its developer after a 'tool for rapists' outcry. Other creepy apps are - Creepy, False Flesh, Breakup Notifier, Sugar Sugar and Background Check.

Nepal, the Himalayan state bordered by Asian giants China and India, has arguably achieved what its neighboring nations haven't even thought about: Preparations are underway in its mountainous terrain -- where the monarchy gave way to democracy only in 2008 -- to host the region's first sports competition for LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex) community.

RuPaul's Drag Race took a page out of America's Next Top Model last week when one of the contestants was abruptly dismissed during the final of the show.

Despite the collapse of Eastman Kodak (Pink: EKDKQ) because it couldn’t sell its valuable patents last year, the market for intellectual property remains red hot and growing, a leading IP banker said.

The developers of a controversial app have pulled their creation, Girls Around Me designed to find and peruse information about women nearby based on their location, from the Apple App Store after a heated privacy debate.

Kevin Mcguire was supposed to be sitting next to Taylor Swift at the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night, but instead the young cancer patient was hospitalized and had to miss his date with the pop star.

The body of ultrarunner Micah True, who went missing in Gila, N.M. after he left a lodge for a 12-mile run, was found in Gila Wilderness after days of searching.

Octomom Nadya Suleman, who posed nude recently for Closer magazine in order to be able to pay her bills and rent out a house for herself and her 14 children, has been receiving death threats.

Who’s your mama?

Why are the lights and logos out at the Empire State Building, Sydney Opera House, Eiffel Tower, Christ the Redeemer, Burj Khalifa, and Great Wall of China? They've all gone dark for Earth Hour 2012 as a symbolic gesture of each nation's commitment to sustainability.

The Girls Around Me iPhone app, developed by Moscow-based company iFree, is a stalker's dream, and should be a wake-up call for appropriate privacy settings on Facebook. The app has been around since December, but it's avoided the radar so far, buried in the hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple's App Store, until Cult of Mac brought it to light.

Yahoo Inc will begin layoffs of thousands of employees next week and will announce a plan to restructure the company the week after that, according to a media report.

Fadwa Suleiman, Syrian actress and a high-profile Alawite member of the Syrian revolution led by an opposition dominated by Sunni Muslims, against the government controlled by Alawites, is saddened that the revolution is not going in the right direction.

Joining the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S are three more Android smartphones, namely the Verizon Droid RAZR, RAZR Maxx and HTC Rezound, which will apparently get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update as early as next week.

After its final stock trading on the secondary market, Facebook Inc was valued at $102.8 billion.

Earlier this week, Asus announced on its Italian Facebook page that it will be bringing new feature to its Transformer Prime tablet and now the Taiwanese company is rolling out the 9.4.2.21 software update.

The Hunger Games has earned a big wad of cash at the box office, $152.5 million, in its opening weekend and now Lionsgate has released The Hunger Games Adventures role-playing game for Facebook.

Ben and Courtney are doing well!

Six years after its inception in Sydney, Australia, an estimated 5,251 cities and towns in 147 countries and territories across the globe are expected to celebrate Earth Hour 2012. Co-Founder Andy Ridley explains...

While Facebook is built around finding friends over things you like, a new app has been built on the opposite idea. The EnemyGraph Facebook application encourages users to find things they dislike, or hate, to find people with common interests.