Ukrainian ladies are ‘world’s most beautiful women’, says Joe Biden

October 14th, 2009 LONDON - Gyrofocus, the hanging fireplace that can rotate through 360 degrees to throw light and heat into all corners of a room, has been named the most beautiful object in the world. The new winner of the Pulchra design competition, essentially a beauty contest for beautiful objects, took first prize over legions of other beautifully designed objects.

October 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Worried by the wide scale criticism of the Kerry Lugar Bill in Pakistan, US Vice President Joe Biden has said that Washington is considering Islamabad's reservations on the aid Bill. Biden met Pakistani ambassador-at-large Raffat Mahmood in Washington and told him that the Obama Administration is aware of Pakistan's concerns and is examining them, The News reports.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - French First Lady Carla Bruni has confessed to being in a never-ending beauty contest with other First Ladies across the world. Bruni, 41, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has now unveiled a new website to give the world a peek of her former glamorous supermodel days.

October 6th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Two Aussie women, who run a cabaret show involving boobs, have decided to go on a 'boobs mission' to New Zealand. Emma Powell and Bev Killick are well-endowed comedians, who hope to get Kiwi women to love their breasts just as much as they love their own less-than-perfect ones.

September 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - The ladies of New York have hit back at high-priced Eliot Spitzer escort Ashley Dupre's claim that the average NY woman is no better than a prostitute as she strives to marry a wealthy man. Dupre, 24, had posted an online diatribe on September 2 on rap impresario Russell Simmons' Global Grind Web site, stating that she has seen a lot of women toy with men, go on dates to get good food, beg for clothes and ask for rent money.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW YORK - The woman at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal has sent out a message to New York ladies saying, "You're no better than me!" Ashley Dupre, 24, who responded to a front-page Post exclusive about Spitzer contemplating a return to office, said that she was tired of people looking down on her. "Get real and get over yourself," the New York Post quoted her as telling all the women out there who "just love to judge".

August 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Four frisky frillies galloped naked on horsebacks around a racetrack to promote an upcoming Ladies Day. They recreated Lady Godiva's epic ride at Kempton Park in Surrey.

August 20th, 2009 LONDON - An increasing number of British women are giving up costly make-up in favour of longer-lasting Botox. The demand for the 175-pound to 300-pound anti-wrinkle jabs has risen by 14pct.

August 20th, 2009 FLORIDA - Vice President Joe Biden has acknowledged that Barack Obama wears the pants in the White House. He admitted this during a fundraising dinner Wednesday in Florida, when he responded to a suggestion that President Bush leaned heavily on Vice President Cheney for guidance.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - Almost half of British women are ashamed of their legs, and six out of ten are too mortified to wear skirts and dresses publicly, suggests a new study. According to the survey, headed by Venaforce, a total of 47 per cent of UK's ladies would prefer to wrap their legs, and one in six would not show their pins to their partners.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - More than a third of men still believe that housework is a job for the ladies, a new study has found. The survey by cleaning experts Vileda of 1,853 men found although fathers and married men are the laziest, more than 70 per cent of all men do very little cleaning.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has earned himself praise from hundreds of leading Italian women, after he condemned the Arab and Muslim world for treating their women "like pieces of furniture". Gaddafi, 67, was addressing women from political, cultural, and economic backgrounds at the Auditorium concert hall where he called for a "world female revolution", reports Time Online.

May 28th, 2009 COLORADO - Vice President Joe Biden teased his boss President Barack Obama on Wednesday over his teleprompter dependence. Speaking at the Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado, Biden poked fun at Obama's known affinity for his teleprompter.

May 10th, 2009 Biden offering words of advice to Syracuse gradsSYRACUSE, N.Y. — Vice President Joe Biden is offering some words of advice to this year's graduating class at Syracuse University.

April 22nd, 2009 Africa's first ladies urge education, health careLOS ANGELES — They have seen each other socially, with their husbands in Washington or at the United Nations, but the 15 African first ladies met this time to speak candidly about problems facing women and children on their home continent. Some called for improved nutrition for children and pregnant mothers, clean water, sanitation infrastructure and inexpensive tools such as insecticide-treated bed nets to help combat malaria.