Author Adichie Wins Orange Prize

"Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She beat five other contenders for the £30,000 women-only award, including Kiran Desai, shortlisted for her Booker Prize winner The Inheritance of Loss. Adichie's...

Japanese Pageant winner a sex star

"In the almost 100-year-old annals of Japanese beauty contests, there's never been an incident like the one rocking the pageant world right now, with newly crowned Miss International Japan Hisako Shirata exposed for having performed nude sex scenes for the camera, according...

Chinese blogger solicits penis pictures

"In the beginning there was Mu Zimei, who in late 2003, kicked off an international socio-sexual stir ("Sex, please! We're young and Chinese!" screamed Time Magazine two years later) as the first Chinese woman to publicly blog about her sex life after she posted a snarky tale...