Some of the stranger stories from around the globe

Aboriginal rock art found in remote Australia has been dated at 28,000 years old, archaeologists say, prompting speculation that indigenous communities were among the world’s most advanced.

A US Marine Corps fighter jet dropped a bomb and damaged a building in an accident at a remote military range in northern Australia, the government said today.

Police in Australia are following hundreds of leads in the search for a man who attacked a British couple travelling around the continent.