A 26-YEAR-OLD Dundalk man was in a serious but stable condition in a Melbourne Hospital yesterday after falling three storeys from the roof garden of an Australian hostel.

Wildfires destroyed eight houses and cut electricity lines in southern Australia, plunging much of Victoria state into chaos as hundreds of thousands were left without power, a fire official said today.

Paul Hester, the drummer from popular 1980s Australian rock band Crowded House, hanged himself in a park in southern Australia, an emergency services spokeswoman said today.