Colorful drag queen Vladimir Luxuria says she shares a similarity with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: they both dab on lots of make-up and wear heels to make them look taller.

Luxuria is Italy's first drag queen to run for parliament. Campaigning for the rights of homosexuals to marry and to legalize prostitution and certain drugs, Luxuria is trying for a win in the upcoming April elections.

The Italian government will tap into the porn industry lessen the deficit.

The "porno-tax," would take 25 percent on all income from pornography. The proposal is contained in a package of amendments to the 2006 budget to presented in the Chamber of Deputies Tuesday or Wednesday, according to government sources speaking to Reuters.

Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter

A Swedish drama student was fined 2,400 crowns on Wednesday for reading the stories as part of a theater project on children's sexuality, reports the Dagens Nyheter newspaper on its Web site.

A Romanian woman is asking for a divorce on the grounds of virtual adultery after she caught her husband surfing the Internet for porn.

Geta M, 45, has been married to husband Ion for 23 years, but told the court she does not want to continue with the marriage because she felt cheated and replaced by "virtual lovers".