Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Breaux), better known by his stage name Frank Ocean has been named among the most influential gay icons in the world in a new countdown by US publication, Out Magazine.Ocean and comedienne Ellen Degeneres are joined by broadcaster Anderson Cooper, Glee's creator Ryan Murphy and actor Neil Patrick Harris on the annual Power List compiled by editors at ga

Congress in Uruguay has voted overwhelmingly to legalise same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in Latin America to do so, after Argentina.The bill was approved by more than two-thirds of the lower chamber, despite opposition from the Catholic Church.The proposal has already been backed by the upper house. It is expected to be signed into law within two weeks.President Jose Mujica has been

A bus preacher narrowly escaped arrest after confessing to stealing a bus driver's cellphone.The preacher, from Jeppe's Reef in Mpumalanga, South Africa could not finish his sermon at the Malalane bus terminus on Tuesday morning.He was attacked by an angry bus driver who accused him of stealing his cellphone and passengers decided to join in the beating, sending his Bible flying in the air!"Beat

South African lawyers will be in a London court later on Thursday for the latest step to extradite honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani, The EWN reports.They will be hoping to convince a judge that the British businessman is now mentally fit and healthy enough for extradition proceedings to begin in earnest.Dewani is accused of orchestrating the murder of his new wife Anni while on honeymoon in

A Canadian teenager committed suicide after photos allegedly showing her being gang-raped spread through her school, her family has said.Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, was found by her mother in the bathroom of their family home in Nova Scotia shortly after she hanged herself.Her family said her suicide was the result of almost two years of bullying and depression after a photo purporting to show her being

An NHS helpline was labelled 'a chaotic mess' amid claims paramedics were dispatched to calls including a chipped finger nail and a cat with diarrhoea.A 111 phone service, intended for those who need non-urgent help, leads to 999 crews being scrambled because 'trigger' words filter through the system.For example, an ambulance was dispatched to help a 16-year-old who asked for routine advice about

An Australian couple shot to fame on social media on Thursday after an image of them having sex by the side of a rural highway made it onto Google Street View, sparking speculation it was a stunt.The image, which has since been censored by Google, shows the couple bent over the hood of a silver sedan alongside the Dukes Highway outside the town of Keith in South Australia state.The man has his sho

Nepal - Locals running for their lives as a leopard chases them after it reacted to their stone pelting before it was beaten to death in Gothatar‚ Kathmandu‚ on Wednesday April 10.The leopard was said to be on the prowl around Pashupatinath Temple and Gothatar for the past one week and had killed four cows and calves. When locals today heard that the wild cat was hiding in a bamboo grove, t

Godfrey Badza, 39, a pastor from Harare, Zimbabwe appeared in court for allegedly fondling and caressing a 19-year-old female church member he had taken for counselling.He was not asked to plead to aggravated indecent assault charges when he appeared before a Harare magistrate.He was remanded to May 27 for trial on US$50 bail with conditions. Prosecutor Miss Melia Urayayi alleged that on March 28

Robbers in Elliotdale, Eastern Cape, South Africa on Wednesday forced four schoolgirls to eat salt at gun point.Major Zamukulungisa Jozana said three men armed with a gun gained access to the house shortly after midnight on Monday. They broke down the bedroom door where the girls were sleeping."They wanted to know whether the owner of the house had a firearm, after which they instructed the girls

Council tenants could be handed £20,000 in cash to flee the country to help solve a housing shortage.People living in the north-west London borough of Harrow are being offered the 'incentive' payments if they agree to move abroad.The council is mooting the hand-outs after admitting to having one of the smallest housing stocks in the capital.But councillors insist they have not yet rubber-stamped

At least six people have been injured in a factory explosion in Kempton Park, South Africa. The Eye Witness reports that there was an explosion  at Oricol Environmental Services Factory in Spartan on Wednesday.An eyewitness said "we saw an explosion from our office and when we went down to the scene, it was just bad. There was lots of smoke and the building had collapsed. People were burnin

A new study by Australian researchers suggests that penis size truly matters to women when it comes to choosing a man.Researchers showed female university students images of naked men, and determined that penis size is a predictor of male attractiveness. The researchers explained the attractiveness might be rooted in evolution."We found that flaccid penis size had a significant influence on male a

A 20-year-old student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people - many in the face and neck - before being subdued and arrested, authorities said Tuesday.The Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that Dylan Quick had been planning the attack at the Lone Star College System's campus in Cypress for some time and ha

Dog lovers paid out hundreds of pounds for fashionable 'toy poodles' - only to discover they were fluffed-up ferrets on steroids.One pensioner was duped into buying two of the "pedigree" pets from a market in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.But when he took the animals to a vet for their vaccinations he was told he had bought two ferrets which are known in Argentine as 'Brazilian rats'.The fer