Men in Riccione, Italy are strongly protesting over the opening of a women-only beach on the Adriatic coast of Italy but the women are simply loving the new concept. Beach 134 at the Riccione resort features "No Men" signs and also no children are allowed to enter. This way the women are encouraged to keep their children at home or leave them with their father to devote some time to them.

Thailand on Friday holds the tenth annual Miss Tiffany Universe pageant. The beauty contest which brings on stage the most beautiful transvestites from all over the nation, is one of the country's most watched event with millions of viewers. Started as a transsexual cabaret in Pattaya, a resort town about 68 miles southeast of Bangkok, the show has evolved into a full fledged national competition, whose winner like any traditional beauty contest is beset with loads of prizes and contracts with advertising firms.

Former Miss America 1944 Venus Ramey stopped an intruder from stealing equipment from her Kentucky farm last week, news sources say. While holding herself up with a walker, Ramey, 82, reportedly held a . 38 caliber handgun and shot the tires of the intruder's vehicle. She then flagged down an oncoming police officer.

Apparently, it won't be a Good Friday for some in the town of Newcastle in England. A pastor has banned children under 12 years of age from his Good Friday service because he will instead be showing clips from Mel Gibson's controversial movie The Passion of The Christ. What's more, the pastor also slammed the modern Easter holiday for being "sentimentalized with eggs and fluffy chickens". The pastor, Mark Elder, 45, of Heaton Baptist Church says: "The Easter story is not pretty and I want to get across the true un-cut version. It's effectively an X-certificate service," according to Ananova.

A jobless man from London, who has a stark resemblance with an ancient Indian goddess of eunuchs, has been rechristened as Prema in the Indian state of Gujarat where he is now living as a fertility goddess. Steve Cooper, 32, said he was out of work when friends told him he looked like the goddess Bahucharaji - who according to legend castrated her husband because he preferred acting as a woman.