TigerWoods had enjoyed more than 120 affairs

In China, it has been the year of the tiger. And 2010 was no different on this side of the world, as the golf star hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The full extent of Tiger Woods’s infidelity was revealed after a car crash at the end of last year.

It was later claimed he had enjoyed more than 120 affairs, as woman after woman came forward with X-rated texts and tales.

The sportsman carted himself off to sex rehab before his wife walked out on him in August – with a reported £38million in her pocket.

While Tiger was the most prolific cheat of the year, the biggest split on this side of the Atlantic belonged to Cheryl and Ashley Cole.

The X Factor star finally pulled the plug when the Chelsea player featured in some incriminating sex text pics.

The game was up when five women came forward to reveal they’d had a little bit of Ashley.

The Girls Aloud star fled to the US and put the divorce papers in the post. Joining Cole in the sin bin was his club captain, John Terry, after a court injunction was lifted to reveal claims the married England skipper had slept with team-mate Wayne Bridge’s ex, Vanessa Perroncel, who denied the affair.

Wayne Rooney was the next big name to fall, when it was alleged the Manchester United striker cheated on wife Coleen with two prostitutes while she was pregnant with their son.

And a third England striker tripped up in the summer, after it was revealed Peter Crouch had done the dirty on Abigail Clancy with an £800 prostitute in Madrid.

But it wasn’t just randy footballers caught with their pants down. Doe-eyed Take That singer Mark Owen confessed to enjoying ten affairs and being an alcoholic.

He checked in to rehab in March and was taken back by his wife, Emma Ferguson, despite a lengthy fling with charity worker Neva Hanley.

Pop rivals Boyzone were also hit. Squeakyclean Ronan Keating turned out to be a rat when doting wife Yvonne unearthed an affair with dancer Francine Cornell.

After a string of grovelling public apologies, it looks like Keating might just save his 12- year marriage.

Another ‘clean-cut’ husband in the doghouse was Family Fortunes host Vernon Kay, who admitted sending filthy messages to a string of women behind Strictly host Tess Daly’s back.

Sex texts also landed comedian Jason Manford in trouble. The presenter’s new job on The One Show ended after he admitting getting ‘a bit saucy’ with some girls on Twitter and Skype while his wife was expecting their baby.

Back in Hollywood, and Sandra Bullock was rocked when her hubby, Jesse James, was exposed for sleeping with tattooed vixen Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee in his bike shed.

The bad news came hours after Bullock celebrated her first Oscar win in March.

And it wasn’t just the fellas who couldn’t control themselves, as Liz Hurley was busted enjoying a 48-hour dirty weekend with cricket great – and notorious ladies’ man – Shane Warne.

Assange signs book deals worth over £1m

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he is reluctantly writing his autobiography becasue he has to defend himself

(FT)-Julian Assange has signed book deals worth more than £1m in the US and UK, to allow the WikiLeaks founder to cover his legal fees and maintain the whistleblowing site.

He will be racing a disgruntled former colleague to release an autobiography telling his side of the WikiLeaks story. Both books are to be published by divisions of Random House next year.

Mr. Assange is fighting allegations of sexual assault in Sweden while trying to continue the gradual release of thousands of US diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks.

Released on bail by the British high court in mid-December, he spent Christmas wearing a tracking tag, confined to a friend's mansion home in East Anglia.

The U.S. administration, which has been angered and embarrassed by successive leaks of its foreign-policy secrets through WikiLeaks, is believed to be exploring ways to prosecute Mr Assange.

The controversy did not dissuade readers of Time magazine voting Mr. Assange their "person of the year" for his campaign for freedom of information and radical transparency from governments.

He has agreed an $800,000 (£520,000) contract with Knopf, a US imprint of Random House, the Bertelsmann-owned publisher, and another £325,000 deal for the UK with Canongate, an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh.

But although the deals are expected to net Mr. Assange more than £1.1m ($1.7m) after the book is sold in other countries and serialised in newspapers around the world, Mr. Assange said he had agreed to write his autobiography only reluctantly.

"I don't want to write this book, but I have to," he told the Sunday Times. "I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat."

Mr. Assange did not describe how he would divide the proceeds from his autobiography between his own personal legal costs and the operational funds required by WikiLeaks, which he has described as a large and distributed organisation that is not solely reliant on him.

WikiLeaks' operational costs have more than tripled since it drew up budgeting plans at the beginning of the year, due to the increased scope of information it has reviewed and published. Before "cablegate", it released huge amounts of files about the Iraqi and Afghan wars.

The whistleblowing site relies largely on donations from individuals, but had its fund-raising channels curtailed after several U.S. financial services firms stopped processing payments to its account.

Bank of America, MasterCard, Visa and PayPal have all stopped directing funds to WikiLeaks in recent weeks. They deny Mr. Assange's accusations that the actions were politically motivated. Mr. Assange's Swiss bank has also frozen his account.

Last week, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former WikiLeaks spokesman, announced he would publish a tell-all book next year about his time with the site.

Crown Publishing, another division of Random House, will release "Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" in 14 countries in February.

The author, who called himself Daniel Schmitt when he worked at WikiLeaks, fell out with Mr. Assange over the running and strategic priorities of the site.

He has said that the allegations of Mr. Assange's sexual misconduct would be better handled privately and have become a burden to WikiLeaks.

Pakistani officials: Latest suspected drone attack kills 10

A file photograph of a U.S. Predator drone -- six militants were killed by a suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.

Peshawar, Pakistan (CNN) -- Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region Tuesday killed 10 alleged militants, intelligence officials said.

Based on a CNN count, Tuesday's strikes raises the number of such attacks to 110 this year, compared with 52 in all of 2009.

The first strike occurred in North Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan's volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan, where unmanned aircraft missiles targeting militants have spiked in recent weeks.

The drones fired two missiles on a militant hideout in the area of Ghulam Khan, two Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN. Later, a suspected drone circled around the blast site and fired two more missiles. Six suspected militants were killed.

The second attack was on an alleged militant vehicle in the same area, killing four more alleged militants.

The Pakistani intelligence officials asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The first strike Tuesday occurred less than 40 kilometers (24 miles) from two suspected drone strikes on Monday, which killed at least 18 people.

On December 17, three separate drone strikes killed at least 57 people, a record for one day. All the deaths were in the Tirah Valley area of the Khyber Agency, north of North Waziristan.

Intense drone activity in Pakistan's tribal region has moved northward, mirroring the movement of suspected militants as they try to flee the targeted strikes, a senior Pakistani military official told CNN last week.

The United States does not officially confirm that it has unmanned aircraft firing missiles at terror targets in Pakistan, but it is the only country in the region known to have the capability to do so.