A cosmetics line called "Looking Good For Jesus" has been pulled from a leading department store in Singapore after Catholic residents protested the marketing gimmick as blasphemous. Reports said the retailing giant Top Shop in the Lion City, which is home to about 4.4 million Christians, had no choice but to clear its shelves of the products.

The makeup line sold items like "Virtuous vanilla" lip balm and a "Get Tight with Christ" hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Jesus Christ between two women.

Rogue trading is all in a day's work, says Nick Leeson who toppled Barings Bank in 1995 with illicit trading worth $1.6 billion, but the $7.2 billion fraud that cost France's banking giant Societe Generale is frightening.

"Rogue trading is probably a daily occurrence within the financial markets," Leeson told the BBC. "What shocked me was the size. I never for one moment believed it would get to this degree of magnitude, this degree of loss."

Authorities are investigating the case of a "burly Indian" stowaway who managed to sneak onto a Singapore Airlines (SIA) cargo flight and sit just meters behind the pilots. The incident raises security concerns because unlike passenger jets, there is no cockpit door protecting the pilots.

The unidentified man was caught an hour into the seven-hour flight from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The plane was forced to turn back to the UAE where the man was arrested.

China has begun work on what will be the world's largest Ferris wheel at Chaoyang Park in east Beijing.

The $99 million and 682 feet high Great Wheel of China is expected to have 48 fully air-conditioned compartments that can accommodate 40 people each and will hold a total of 1920 passengers at a time.

Singapore Airlines is not allowing romantic passengers aboard its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo jets to use the beds in the private suites of the world's biggest commercial plane for sex.

Australian newspaper Mercury quoted a spokesman of the airlines as saying that the ban on airborne sex is among the rules for passenger behavior during flights of the A380.