Thousands of demonstrators protesting over violence against Indian students filled streets in Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, today, as the foreign minister said the government was doing everything it could to solve the crime problem.

RICKY NIXON, the controversial agent attempting to woo young GAA talent to the AFL, was involved in a bizarre accident in Melbourne this week.

Actor Sylvester Stallone dismissed the confiscation of contraband from his party’s luggage at Sydney Airport as a mistake today.

International air travel would virtually stop if bird flu triggered a lethal human pandemic in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia’s health minister said today, as Chinese media reported plummeting poultry sales in Beijing and Shanghai.

A diver was missing and presumed dead today after he was attacked by a shark off a popular beach near the southern Australian city of Adelaide.

Australia will consider a Chinese diplomat’s request for political asylum on its merits, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said today.

The main hospital treating victims of a train explosion in North Korea laid out young patients on filing cabinets today as it struggled to overcome a shortage of beds and problems with medical equipment, according to an aid official.

Food, tents and other emergency aid from China arrived today in North Korea to help it recover from a devastating train explosion that killed more than 160 people, about half of them children in a school torn apart by the blast.