Weight Loss Battle Heats Up For Investors

A suspected gas explosion ripped through a Mexican hotel, killing five Canadian tourists and two Mexican staff members while injuring 17 other people, said officials who ruled out an attack.Army and police personnel rushed to the blast and cordoned off the Grand Riviera Princess hotel in Playa del Carmen, on Mexico's Caribbean coast near the major resort city of Cancun.The explosion killed "seven people, five Canadians -- four men, one woman -- and two Mexicans who worked at the hotel," Quintana Roo state attorney general Francisco Alor Quezada told Milenio television.

A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and onto Durban's South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.At the end of the day, he'll return his surfboard to a nearby community centre and then curl up on a downtown sidewalk to sleep.Wonder is among a dozen young black boys taking to the waves every day through a community group called Umthombo, which is coaching street kids in surfing and other sports to keep them off the street while providing counselling to find more lasting solutions to their problems.

DIRECTV put on its seventh annual Celebrity Beach Bowl at the Super Bowl on Saturday and some big names participated this year.

At the beginning of January, the Lingerie Football League announced that it would be rebranding the league and renaming it the Legends Football League. The biggest change to the league was supposedly the uniforms, the athletes would wear "performance wear," the press release said, instead of lingerie.

Most wrestlers worry about head locks, Half Nelsons and cauliflower ear – common hazards in the world’s oldest sport. But there are other things to fret over when you grapple with sharks, as a British grandfather vacationing in Australia has learned. When you grapple with sharks, you worry about getting a leg snapped off.

Bikini-clad cheer squads have made beach volleyball a focal point of the Asian Games with Chinese fans flocking to the sand to watch the action both on and off court.But the scantily-clothed "beach babes" are feeling the pressure of a fast changing society were once puritanical communist morality has quickly given way to the pursuits of the free market."When people see the appearance of our rally squad, there is really a lot of pressure on us, not only among family and friends, but in society there is this negative view," the raven-haired Yi Yiqing told journalists.

By Jamelle Bouie Researchers at the University of Washington further illustrate the link between poverty and obesity:

Rajan Datar reports on the growing resentment in the town of Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera where locals fear their way of life is threatened by wealthy tourists from abroad.