NEW Zealanders were mourning the loss of the country’s most famous sheep yesterday, a shaggy national icon named Shrek who was renowned for avoiding being shorn for years.

New Zealanders are mourning the loss of the country’s most famous sheep – a shaggy national star called Shrek, who was renowned for avoiding being shorn for years.

Thousands of police and federal agents will respond to mock car bombs, hostage sieges, port attacks and other terror strikes across Australia this week to test the country’s readiness ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Games.

A pet dog helped save a toddler from drowning in an Australian reservoir.

BRITISH police are still hunting an Irish priest accused of sex abuse, believing he may have faked his own death to avoid extradition.