Marian Rivera confidently donned a two-piece bikini for the March 2009 cover of Cosmopolitan Philippines magazine.

Marian confessed that she was nervous as this is the first time that she will be posing for a magazine cover in a bikini and this is also a first for Cosmo. But it didn’t show as the end result showed a fun, fearless, and sexy Marian Rivera.

Marian currently topbills the primetime series, GMA 7’s Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa aking Tadyang together with leading man Dingdong Dantes.

Please subscribe to my post as I will be posting a bunch of images during the photoshoot soon.

Rachel Ray has ever taken some race photos for FHM at 2003.  On previous ABC Nightline she told Cynthia McFadden that she “doesn’t regret” these photos and she’d “do it again tomorrow.”

Here are some photos found on FHM 2003 issue.

1. Best Wild Animal Photos of 2008 Announced

Man and right whale size each other up in the winner of the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition’s underwater category, announced on October 30. “The whales were highly curious of us. Many of these animals had never seen a human before,” Skerry told National Geographic.

2. Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica

Collected from deep Antarctic seas, this 9.8-inch-long (25-centimeter-long) giant sea spider was one of 30,000 animals–many new to science–found during a 35-day census in early 2008 and featured in a National Geographic News gallery on March 28. Other odd discoveries included a balloon-like sea squirt and giant starfish.

3. Best Science Images of 2008 Announced

Under intense magnification, a long-fin squid’s suckers–each no wider than a human hair–resemble the leafy star of Little Shop of Horrors. This electron-micrograph image may have only won an honorable mention in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, but thanks to enthusiastic bloggers, these suckers were the breakout stars of National Geographic News’s gallery of the contest’s highlights, posted on September 25. Among the other marquee attractions: a bugged-out take on the Mad Hatter’s tea party and a “glass forest.”

4. Eight Natural Wonders Added to UN Heritage List

Filed with forests, waterfalls, and fantastically shaped granite peaks and pillars, China’s 56,710-acre (22,950 hectare) Mount Sanqingshan National Park was among the 174 wild sites–eight of them featured in this gallery–added to the UN World Heritage list in July 2008. Chosen by a committee of the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Heritage sites are natural and cultural areas recognized for their universal value to humanity. (Photo: CRIOnline)

5. Hurricane Ike Pummels Texas Coast

On Sept. 13 a worker inspects damage in front of the JPMorgan Chase Tower in downtown Houston, Texas, after powerful Hurricane Ike slammed into the Gulf Coast, damaging buildings, flooding streets, and knocking out power for millions of people.With winds reaching 110 miles (177 kilometers) an hour, Ike came ashore above Galveston, Texas, as a strong Category 2 storm just after 3 a.m. ET.

6. Chile Volcano Erupts With Ash and Lightning

After 9,000 years of silence, Chile’s Chaiten volcano erupted, generating on May 3 what may have been a “dirty thunderstorm.” These little-understood storms may be caused when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles collide to produce static charges–just as ice particles collide to create charges in regular thunderstorms. The eruption, which continued off and on for months, forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and cattle from this corner of Patagonia.

7. Alien-like Squid Seen at Deep Drilling Site

A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, this alien-like, long-armed, and–strangest of all–”elbowed” Magnapinna squid is seen in a still from a video clip obtained by National Geographic News from and published on Nov. 24.

8. Colossal Squid Revealed in First In-Depth Look

The carcass of a colossal squid floats in a tank at the Museum of New Zealand on April 30, giving scientists their first close look at the elusive deep-sea creature. The squid was frozen for months after being caught by fishers off Antarctica in 2007. A dissection of the thawed beast yielded astonishing discoveries, including the animal kingdom’s largest eyes and light-emitting organs that may serve as cloaking devices, scientists said.

9. Best Microscopic Images of 2008 Announced

Glowing-hot carbon nanotubes form an expanding orange ball in this winning image from the 2008 Small World photomicrography competition, sponsored by Nikon and featured in an October 15 National Geographic News gallery. In nine other masterworks of magnification, a beetle danced on a pin, and drugs yielded crystal rainbows.

10. Hurricane Ike: Galveston Braces for Storm

Sylvia Renteria recoils as a wave churned by Hurricane Ike meets a seawall in Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 12. Before landfall, the National Weather Service’s chilling warnings of “certain death” spurred officials and residents of the coastal town to gird for the worst–and stoked fears of a replay of the devastating 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed 6,000.

source: picsyard.com

Time magazine has given its annual Person of the Year award to US President-elect Barack Obama.

Mr Obama was awarded the title “for having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour,” said the US-based magazine.

It said he showed “the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off”.

Recent winners have included Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the American soldier and the online public.

Time told readers it was “unlikely that you were surprised to see Mr Obama’s face on the cover”.

“He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago.

“He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order.”

Mr Obama has featured on the magazine’s cover 15 times already this year.

‘Extraordinary story’

“We would have had to have had some pretty compelling reasons to not chose President-elect Barack Obama,” Michael Elliot, Time’s international editor, told CNN.

“His is an extraordinary story which has captured the imagination of people from Jakarta to Dublin to Iowa to New Hampshire.

“There is a degree of excitement surrounding Barack Obama which we tried to capture in our choice,” Mr Elliot said.

The BBC’s Andy Gallacher in Washington says receiving the accolade is usually considered an honour.

But is has also been awarded to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in the past, for very different reasons.

Four runners-up for this year’s title were also announced, as well as 17 “people who mattered”.

The runners-up were US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, French and current EU President Nicholas Sarkozy, Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaskan governor Sarah Palin and Zhang Yimou, creative director of August’s Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing.

source: bbc news

Sorry but this is very disgusting. Shame on them.

A nude model resembling the Virgin Mary on the cover of the Mexican edition of Playboy magazine, published only days before a major Mexican festival dedicated to the mother of Jesus, prompted the company’s U.S. headquarters on Friday to apologize.

The magazine, which hit newsstands on December 1 as ceremonies began leading to Friday’s pilgrimage to the Mexico City shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, showed a model wearing nothing but a white cloth over her head and breasts.

She is standing in front of a stained glass window with the cover line, “We Love You, Maria” in Spanish. The model’s name is Maria Florencia Onori.

The Virgin of Guadalupe, said to have appeared to a sixteenth century Indian peasant, is Mexico’s most revered Roman Catholic figure and the annual pilgrimage to the Mexico City basilica dedicated to her is one of the world’s largest religious events.

In a statement, Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc said the Mexican edition of the magazine is published by a licensee, and the company did not approve or endorse the cover.

“While Playboy Mexico never meant for the cover or images to offend anyone, we recognize that it has created offense, and we as well as Playboy Mexico offer our sincerest apologies,” the statement said.

Raul Sayrols, publisher of Playboy Mexico, said in a statement, “The image is not and never was intended to portray the Virgin of Guadalupe or any other religious figure. The intent was to reflect a Renaissance-like mood on the cover.”

Playboy Mexico printed 100,000 copies of the issue.

source: reuters.com