An Australian resources firm says it has uncovered a huge oil deposit in the nation’s vast outback in a discovery hailed by officials as worth some Aus$20 trillion (€15.6tn).

DUBLIN-based Australian Holidays has put together an interesting package down under in September, with a planned stopover in Hong Kong en-route, with a further stopover in Singapore on the way back.

Police in Australia hunting illegal immigrants who escaped in a mass break-out from a remote desert detention centre caught 12 more of them, leaving 12 still on the run, a spokesman said today.