Melbourne, Feb 6 : `The Twilight Saga' by US author Stephenie Meyer has broken the book sales record which had been set by Dan Brown''s `The Da Vinci Code'.

As per Nielsen Bookscan, `Breaking Dawn', the latest book in the four-part series, has been selling at a rate of 19,800 copies each week in Australia during January, reports News. com. au.

The Da Vinci Code had held the January sales record, selling 14,500 copies in the first month of 2005.

Sydney - Five helicopters joined the search for two scuba divers who went missing Friday on Australia's Great Barrier Reef off north Queensland.

Melbourne, Feb. 6: Former Australian cricket captain Bill Lawry is of the view that leg -spinner Bryce McGain will prove to be a handful for the South African batsmen.

"He''s not a guy [who''s] been playing first-class cricket for 20 years, so he''s going to be fresh, he''s going to be enthusiastic and the South Africans, in particular, don''t play leg-spin all that well, so I think it''s a great opportunity for him," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Lawry, as saying.

Sydney, Feb. 6: There is palpable excitement around the selection of New South Wales batting prodigy Phillip Hughes, who is among four uncapped Australians in a squad charged with defending Australia''s No. 1 Test ranking in South Africa.

Hughes, 20, is poised to become his country''s youngest Test debutant since Craig McDermott pulled on a Baggy Green cap in 1984, and 36-year-old leg spinner Bryce McGain the oldest since Bob Holland in the same year.

Melbourne, Feb. 6: Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke's desire to spend as much time as possible with his fiancée Lara Bingle is creating heart burn within the team, and rumor mills are agog with reports of him engaged in scraps with mates over the issue.

Reports suggest that so deep are the fissures within the squad; that questions are now being asked whether Clarke is up to the job of leading the side, a position that he has been wanting for most of his cricketing life.

Sydney  - In Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar's famous homage to her "willful, lavish land," she extols a weather trifecta of "floods and fire and famine" that "pays us back threefold."

Cattle ranchers in the east-coast state of Queensland, 60 per cent of which is now flooded, are indeed looking for a tripling in earnings after the biggest downpours in decades have provided enough water to grow enough grass for two years of feed for their livestock.