Corruption is now rife in Africa to the extent that a prominent African business man based in London has launched an annual $5 million prize for Africa's most effective head of state. Egyptian born Mo Ibrahim, who operates a mobile phone business in the U. K. , says African leaders shall be rated every year to pick the eligible candidate. The successful candidates will get $5 million over 10 years when they quit power. They'll also get $200,000 annually for life.

Picture-takers were busy clicking away at girls in miniskirts next to the giant flat-screen TVs and fancy mobile phones at Japan's biggest technology trade show on Friday. Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, was one of those fans at the site, aiming his camera at the women lined up in front of the gadgets, waving at visitors.

A new mobile phone service can allow your cellphone to emit an ear-piercing scream when nabbed. It is meant to discourage theft with its nonstop screaming unless the battery is taken out. The mobile phone will not work even if the thief changes the SIM card.

South African Christians seeking a quick spiritual boost will be able to download the entire bible on to their mobile telephones phones from Wednesday as part of a drive to modernize the scriptures. Rev. Gerrit Kritzinger, chief executive of the Bible Society in South Africa, said in a statement, "The Virtual Bible will enable the Bible Society to supply the Bible to every modern cell phone user in a fast and affordable format. "

Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid mobile phones, a phone charger and spare chips in their rectums so they could co-ordinate crimes from their cells, authorities said Wednesday. The surprising discovery was made Tuesday after some officials got suspicious of the activities of the inmates and an X-ray thereafter revealed the situation, federal corrections chief Jaime Villanova told the AP. The men, all members of the dangerous Mara Salvatrucha gang, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums, Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the Zacatecoluca prison known as Zacatras told the AP, adding that the phones were relatively small, about as long as an adult forefinger.