"Once you go black, you never go back, Dave!" Will Smith to David Letterman after kissing his cheek on The Late Show.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd believes people should know when a pedophile moves into their community. This comes after convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson was forced to move from a rural property in southwest Queenslend after residents complained. 

"My general view is that the community has a right to know", Mr Rudd said.

"I believe that this is a most sensitive, difficult area and these are sensitive, difficult decisions to be made by the authorities.

"But I think as a general principle the community does have a right to know."

Ferguson was released from custody on Tuesday night after a District Curt Judge dismissed charges against him, partly because Ferguson's high profile would preclude him from receiving a fair trial on new charges, where Ferguson is accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl at her home in November 2005. Attorney-General Kerry Shine has launched an appeal against the decision.

Kylie Minogue says she hopes to be performing on stage in 20 years time - minus those infamous hot pants. The 40-year-old pop princess revealed that she could imagine herself in the spotlight when she was in her 50s and even at 60.

"But I won't be wearing hot pants any more," she maintained.

"It's difficult to age with dignity in the pop business, but I'd like to think I've managed it so far."

"I never really felt I was made for an ordinary life, like a husband and a terraced house in the suburbs," she said.

They are raw and ugly. Uninvited. They appear without notice and pretty much ruin any event you may have been eager to attend.

They are the dreaded cold sore.

The good news is, cold sores may very well become a thing of the past thanks to a team of microbiologists at Duke University. The researchers have been hard at work trying to figure out how to switch the virus from latency to its active stage.

The lead author of the project, Dr Bryan Cullen, says this plays a vital role in the research process "because unless you activate the virus, you can't kill it."

The theory is that by activating the virus, then preventing it from retuning, it can be completely eradicated. Cullen's research suggests that a drug could be developed to block the virus permanently.

It was also found that this new research may very well be applied to other latent viruses like herpes or the chicken pox.

Apparently, by the age of 40, almost 90% of the adult population will have been exposed to the herpes simplex virus which causes cold sores.

“There are a lot of people who'd be thrilled never to have a cold sore again," said Dr Cullen.

Christie Brinkley’s estranged husband revealed details of his extramarital affairs during their divorce trial, telling the court he had sex with his teenage lover and then paid her $US300,000 ($312,000) to keep their affair quiet.

Peter Cook was called to the stand and questioned about his affair with Diana Bianchi, 18, who is also expected to testify that Cook seduced her shortly after hiring her for his Hamptons architectural firm.

Brinkley’s lawyer, Robert Stephan Cohen, also told the court that Cook spent about $3,000 a month on pornographic websites.

"That is the man who's come before this court and asked for custody of his 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter," he said.

Cook is said to have met Bianchi in early 2005, she was reportedly paid $US20, 000 ($20,788) to type magazine articles onto the company’s website, he also left her cash payments in various locations including $US500 under a rock.

The recent raid by Texas authorities on a polygamous sect and their seizure of 400 children has resulted in a rather unusual outcome - the launch of a new clothing line.

Women from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), who made clothes for the children taken into state custody, have turned their hands to commerce and launched an online clothing store. Among the clothing items are dresses with long-sleeves and high collars, loose-fitting pants and modest blouses, all inspired by 19th century American pioneers. The clothes will be made available to the general public and it appears that demand is strong. 

"We don't know what to expect on demand but we have a flood of interest," said Maggie Jessop, a member of the sect.

The women have designed clothing for children and teenagers that “meets the FLDS standards for modesty and neatness” and maintain that “each piece is made with joy and care”

The site's founders are also hoping to add recipes and songs.

Us Weekly is running an "exclusive" report that Naomi Watts is four months pregnant with her second child. 

The actress' representative told Us she would not comment on her client’s personal life.

Naomi and partner Liev Schreiber's first child, Alexander "Sasha" Pete, is 11 months old.

An Australian charity worker who was shot dead in Tanzania died protecting the love of his life, according to the charity he was working for.

Darren Stratti, 36, was working in Arusha in northern Tanzania for the past 18 months with Australian not-for-profit organisation, foodwatershelter. Stratti described his girlfriend, the organisation’s president, Rebecka Delforce, as “the love of my life”. The charity said he was killed on Monday while attempting to protect those around him from a robbery gone wrong.

"Darren gave his life bravely to protect those around him," a spokeswoman said.

"Nobody else was injured in the incident ... it doesn't appear that people were targeted to be shot. It was a burglary that went wrong."

Jason Stratti said his brother was with Ms Delforce when gunmen attempted to burst into their home, and had yelled for her to hide under the bed. A spokesman from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) was unable to provide information concerning the circumstances of Mr Stratti’s death.

Mr Stratti was working on a project to establish and operate an eco-friendly children’s village in Arusha.

The eight Australian volunteers in Tanzania have been pulled out temporarily.

Teams of scientists around the world are currently working on making things invisible, Harry Potter style.

Graeme Milton and colleagues from the University of Utah have come up with a theory for how small objects could become invisible. Without getting too complicated, the team have made mathematical models showing that at a critical distance from a superlens, an object would seem to disappear.

According to Milton, at a certain distance from a superlens, an object becomes invisible because light that bounces off it cancels out with light reflecting off the superlens.

While Milton said he can’t promise that this kind of invisibility cloak would work for large objects like trucks, he maintained that small objects, such as clusters of dust particles, would be good candidates.

Experimentalists also are believed to be making progress in cloaking research, notably using artificially structured materials called metamaterials.

If the mere thought of ducking in and out of the fitting rooms in search of the perfect pair of jeans or dress has you feeling stressed, a new invention may be the solution.

Three students from a high school in Scotland have come up with a device that enables mobile phones to read barcodes on any price tag and check if the items will fit their owner. The contraption may very well revolutionise online shopping and ensure you don’t risk losing hard-earned money on clothes that don’t end up fitting!

The team won top prize at the 2008 ICT Youth Challenge, and will visit Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

Donald Trump has offered his (unsolicited) opinion on the whole Anne Hathaway/Raffaello Follieri mess.

“She hasn’t remained very loyal to him, has she?” he said in a television interview. “So when he had plenty of money, she liked him, but then after that, not as good, right?”

The Don then described how his Trump Tower apartment building - where Raffaello is a resident - was surrounded by media the week before the accused fraudster was taken into custody.

“I walked out of Trump Tower this morning and there was paparazzi all over the place, so I naturally thought they were waiting for me and I said, ‘How badly do you want my picture?’ And they said, ‘No, no, no, Mr. Trump. Not your picture. Raffaello!’” he said.

“I’ve heard he’s very nice,” he continued. “According to the help, no problems. But he’s got himself in a jam.”

Starbucks just announced they will close 600 stores across the US thanks to the flagging economy - that's 500 more than originally planned.

The closures will affect around 12,000 workers at stores that "were not profitable and not projected to provide acceptable returns in the foreseeable future," the company said.

The coffee giant's second-quarter profits dropped 28% in America. At the end of March, there were 16,226 stores around the world, 7,257 of those in the US.

The NSW government has assured the public that officers assigned to World Youth Day duties will not be “fashion police”. Kristina Keneally, World Youth Day ministerial spokeswoman, has also denied reports that police want protesters to submit their slogans and placard messages for official approval.

Keneally was responding to criticism of WYD regulations, giving police power to issue $5,500 fines to anyone deemed to be “causing annoyance” during the June 15 to 20 event.

The new laws aim at targeting anyone attempting to halt the "flow" of a World Youth Day event - such as the pilgrims' march. People standing on the sidelines with placards will not automatically be branded annoying, and they can wear what they like, Ms Keneally said.

"If we were going to start arresting people for being annoying we would start to have a very severe problem with our jail capacity,"

"What it is designed to mean is things that disrupt the event, and stop the event from happening. The police are not the fashion police. They are there to ensure that the event goes ahead safely and with good crowd management and good public order."

Meanwhile, the government has warned motorists to expect major traffic problems during the event, including the closure of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to allow a pilgrim's march and also a papal visit.