Victoria Premier cancels visit to Mumbai over terror fears

MELBOURNE/NEW DELHI - Victoria Premier John Brumby has cancelled the Mumbai leg of India tour due to terrorism fears.

Acting Oz PM also brands her F-word usage as robust talk!

MELBOURNE - Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard has shrugged off Australian premier Kevin Rudd’s use of expletive-laden tirade at Labour’s factional bosses, including three women MPs, as an occasional verbal lapse.

It’s raining cash in Oz ATMs!

MELBOURNE - Commonwealth Bank has requested customers of Campbelltown branch in Australia to return the money they withdrew last week, as the ATM had dispensed 50 dollar notes instead of 20 dollar ones.

Victorians prefer Internet to sex, partner, car!

MELBOURNE - People of Victoria can do without sex, car or even a partner, but not the Internet, a new survey suggests.

Oz PM Rudd calls his ‘F’ word fusillade ‘robust conversation’!

MELBOURNE - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defrended his expletive-laden tirade at Labour’s factional bosses including three women MPs as robust conversation.

Brother of ‘Australian Fritzl’ incest victim died ’suspiciously’

MELBOURNE - A brother of the woman allegedly held as a sex slave for 30 years by her Australian father died ‘in suspicious circumstances’, according to new claims.

Your shopping trolley will soon be knowing what you want

MELBOURNE - A GPS navigation-based system is expected to revolutionise advertising, for it can publicise products directly to supermarket trolleys based on a shopper’s in-store behaviour and purchasing history.

Holiday Inn hotel made of key cards is world’s first

MELBOURNE - A Holiday Inn hotel made entirely of key cards has been unveiled in New York.

The 37-square-metre hotel, built by world record-holding Cardstacker Bryan Berg, is made from more than 200,000 key cards and weighs 1814 kilograms.

Australian Fritzl’s victim ‘took out restraining order against him in 2007′

MELBOURNE - An Australian woman whose father allegedly raped her every day for 30 years had taken out a restraining order against him in 2007 - two years before he was eventually charged.

Australia acts tough on education agents

NEW DELHI/MELBOURNE - Strengthening of student visa checks to stamp out fraud, upgrading interviews and restricting online access to Australia’s eVisa system to fewer agents are some of the measures introduced by the Australian government to reinforce the country’s standing as a high quality education destination.

Nude blonde woman scares builders into running for safety!

MELBOURNE - A blonde woman is said to have scared a bunch of builders into running for safety, after she rushed up to a construction site in the nude saying “Who wants me?”

Victoria Premier in hot waters after racist attacks on Indians

MELBOURNE - Victoria Premier John Brumby is facing a lot of flak for not doing enough to prevent racially motivated attacks on the Indian community in his state.

Spitzer’s call girl Ashley Dupre walks runway at NY Fashion Week

MELBOURNE - Ashley Dupre, the former high-class call girl at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, walked the runway during New York Fashion Week.

Now, ‘Australian Fritzl’ who raped daughter, fathered four kids emerges

MELBOURNE - Lisa Neville, Australian Community Services Minister, has come under fire after huge number of bungling in the child protection services emerged, including a sex horror case of a man accused of fathering four children with his daughter.

Al Qaeda strategist orders kidnapping of foreigners

MELBOURNE - Veteran al-Qaeda adviser Mustafa Hamid alias Abu Walid al-Masri, who was married to Australian Rabiah Hutchinson in Afghanistan in 2001, has issued a directive to kidnap foreign civilians, including Australians in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the capture, detention and torture of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners by the US and its allies.

Glowing light show in American sky was actually astronaut pee

MELBOURNE - The trail of light that sparkled through the American sky on Wednesday night was not a unique celestial show, but was actually astronaut piss.

Racist attacks hurt Australia’s image: Victoria’s premier

MELBOURNE - The string of racist attacks against Indians has damaged Australia’s image, Victoria province’s Premier John Brumby admitted Wednesday, adding “some of the events of the past few months have damaged our brand and the Australian brand in India”.

Racist attacks have damaged Victoria and Australia’s image in India: Premier Brumby

MELBOURNE - Victorian Premier John Brumby said on Wednesday that the spate of racist attacks had damaged Victoria and Australia’s image in India.

Victoria Police deny Indian bashing cover-up

MELBOURNE - Victoria Police has denied they had a plan to limit publicity about the bashing of four Indian men outside a Melbourne pub on Saturday night.

We aren’t covering-up assault on Indians: Australian police

australia racist MELBOURNE - The police are denying that a deliberate decision was taken to minimise publicity over the brutal assault on four Indians at the weekend in this Australian city.

3 Indians assaulted in Australia: Report

MELBOURNE - Three Indians were brutally attacked in a suburb of this Australian city by a group of youths who allegedly made racist remarks, a media report said Tuesday.

3 Indians attacked by racist mob in Australia

indian-students-protest-in-australiaMELBOURNE - Three Indians were brutally assaulted in a suburb in this Australian city by a group of youths who allegedly made racist remarks. Omkar Singh, a relative of the victims, told IBN news channel Tuesday that the attack took place when his relatives were playing pool in Epping.

Male giant pandas’ sex calls reveal size, females’ age

MELBOURNE - Giant Pandas make bleat calls to attract potential mates, finds a new study.

The study led by Dr. Benjamin Charlton has shown that males reveal information about their size, while females give information about their age.

Size, not foreplay, is what fulfils women’s sexual fantasies

MELBOURNE - When it comes to female orgasms, it is the size of the penis, and not the duration of foreplay, that increases the likelihood of fulfilling women’s sexual fantasies, suggests a new study.

Oz gays want marriage as personal choice

MELBOURNE - While homosexual marriages are not legal everywhere, most of the gays in Australia prefer marriage to other form of relationships, a survey has revealed.

Parents exposing kids to porn should face criminal charges: Oz politician

MELBOURNE - A senior member of the Liberal Party of Australia is drawing plans to protect kids from pornography, saying parents who expose their children to explicit material should face criminal charges.

Miracle cat survives 3800km trek!

MELBOURNE - Clyde, the cat, has miraculously survived a trek over 3800km in three years.

The cat was found in the Cloncurry Hospital, in outback Queensland, four months ago, where a nurse took him to local vet.

Seaweed can help reduce cow greenhouse gas

MELBOURNE - Feeding seaweed to cattle can help reduce cow farts, the source of much of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a North Queensland nutritionist.

Satyam pull out to cost Australia 175 million dollars loss

MELBOURNE - Australia’s Victoria province faces a 175 million dollars loss following the cancellation of a Mahindra Satyam-led IT project that was set to create 2000 jobs in Geelong.

NSW Police boss involved in breastfeeding ban is a woman

MELBOURNE - The New South Wales Police boss, who forced a breastfeeding mum to work overtime for every minute she spent expressing milk, has been reported to be a woman.

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