A surfer was seriously injured as he repeatedly punched a shark that mauled him off the Australian east coast, less than a week after a fatal attack, police and a witness said.

A surfer was seriously injured as he repeatedly punched a shark that mauled him off the Australian east coast, less than a week after a fatal attack.

A movie fan had his nose bitten off outside an Australian cinema in an argument over the quality of the violent new Bruce Willis movie Sin City.