Footballer fined $150 for sex with parking meter!

CAIRNS - A drunk footballer, who loudly simulated sex with a parking meter, has been fined 150 dollars by Cairns Magistrates’ Court for causing a public nuisance.

Oz woman receives 200 dlrs fine from council for ‘fibreglass dogs’!

CAIRNS - An Aussie woman has revealed that she received a 200-dollar fine from the Cairns Regional Council after claims that inspectors mistook two fibreglass dogs in her yard for real dogs.

Australian man taken to hospital after being glued to toilet seat in shopping mall

CAIRNS, Australia — A man who used a public toilet in a shopping mall was taken to a hospital to have the toilet seat removed from his backside after someone smeared it with glue in what an official condemned Monday as a sick joke. Police urged possible witnesses to come forward after the 58-year-old man was humiliated in the northeastern city of Cairns by the prank.

Pink concert alerts Oz woman to her ballooning breast implant

CAIRNS - An Aussie woman, who woke up with one breast double the size of the other, said that had she not attended American singer Pink’s concert, she would not have known there was a problem with her breast implant.

Krishna discusses safety and security of Indian students in Australia

CAIRNS - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday met his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith in Cairns, and discussed issues related to safety and security of Indian students in Australia.

India sees its engagement with Pacific region as extension of its ‘Look East Policy’

CAIRNS - Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Friday said that India sees its engagement with the Pacific region as an extension of its Look East Policy to boost engagement with South East Asian neighborhood, the ASEAN.

Pacific countries seek 50 percent emissions cut by 2050 to rescue threatened Pacific islands

CAIRNS, Australia — The Pacific Islands Forum called on all nations Thursday to pledge a 50 percent cut in their emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 at U.N. climate change talks in December, bolstering appeals made a day earlier by seven of the region’s most threatened islands.

Australian PM: Pacific islands least responsible for climate change are most vulnerable to it

CAIRNS, Australia — A group of tiny Pacific Island countries appealed to the world Wednesday to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent to help save them from rising seas.