Russian candidate out of world’s best job quest owing to porn ties

September 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A senior member of the Liberal Party of Australia has warned against children's exposure to pornography at home, saying viewing of the restricted material is as dangerous as guns for kids. Scott Morrison suggested that laws should be introduced Down Under forbidding parents from letting their kids watch the explicit content.

September 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Artists in Australia have attempted to grab a place in the record books with a jam session lasting seven days. More than 850 musicians took part in the 150-hour recording session that is yet to be verified by Guinness World Records.

September 3rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Pictures of a new pole-dancing doll, posted online in America, have enraged parents. The doll starts dancing when the music is turned on, and she goes "up and down" and "round and round", reports the Daily Telegraph.

August 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new survey has revealed that watching YouTube videos, looking up "sex", socialising and searching for search engines are the popular activities children perform on the Internet. The survey conducted by computer security firm Symantec listed the Top 100 searches using the company's tracking service OnlineFamily.Norton, which monitor's children's and teenager's internet use.

July 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A prison officer, who allegedly supplied pornography to inmates at a prison farm near Beaudesert, Australia, is under investigation. The police and Queensland Corrective Services raided the Palen Creek Correctional Centre to find two portable memory sticks that allegedly contained pornographic images, in the prison officer's locker, the Courier Mail reports.

June 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A two-year-old Chinese boy is the world's youngest smoker. And it was Tong Liangliang's dad who taught him how to spark up between tantrums and milky vomits.

June 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Owing to a rather 'ironical' ad campaign, an Amsterdam hotel, which claimed to be 'the worst hotel in the world', has become a huge hit with travellers in the city. The campaign, by advertising agency KesselsKramer, paints the Hans Brinker budget hotel in Amsterdam as dirty, uncomfortable and lacking basic necessities such as beds.

May 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - When a Taiwanese carpenter bought a porn DVD from a local vendor, he never knew he would see a secretly taped motel footage of his own wife having sex with his friend, whom he would later end up stabbing. Identified only by his surname Lee, the man discovered the illicit sex on the DVD in 2002, reports the Courier Mail.

April 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Telstra has said that it cannot guarantee its loan mobile phones are free of porn, after a 10-year-old Gold Coast girl was exposed to a sex video. The mother of the Runaway Bay girl said a phone she borrowed from Telstra had not been reset and it contained the previous client's personal text messages and recordings.

April 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Telstra said that it cannot guarantee its loan mobile phones are free of porn, after a 10-year-old Gold Coast girl was exposed to a sex video. The mother of the Runaway Bay girl said a phone she borrowed from Telstra had not been reset and it contained the previous client's personal text messages and recordings.

March 18th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tourism Queensland has asked the Russian 'Best Job in the World' candidate to explain her alleged involvement in a porn scandal. The tourism officials have asked for a formal response from Julia Yalovitsyna, 29, who allegedly works as a model for an illegal porn studio and coach women for sexually explicit films.

March 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australians have come out in support of the Russian "dream job" candidate caught in porn scandal. Tourism Queensland announced that it is investigating claims that Julia Yalovitsyna, a front-runner in their "best job in the world" campaign, worked as a model for an illegal porn studio and coached women for sexually explicit films.

March 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Russian candidate for the 'best job in the world' has been caught in a porn scandal. According to the Sun, Julia Yalovitsyna, who made it to the list of Top 50 finalists for Hamilton island's caretaker job, has been accused of being a porn studio model.

January 27th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Serena Williams is always known to be one of the toughest fighter on court. And she proved it once again with her three-set win over Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-final.

January 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - India's campaign in the Australian Open singles came to an end with Sania Mirza crashing out of the women's section with a 3-6, 2-6 loss at the hands of 10th seed Russian Nadia Petrova in the second round here Wednesday. The Indian, who is making a comeback after undergoing a wrist injury, had to blame herself for the loss as she squandered crucial break points against the world No.11, who hardly left any room for errors.