Melbourne, Australia  - Amid the congratulations of another record-breaking Australian Open, tournament director Craig Tiley has denied that he will take a position with the US Tennis Association as they hunt for a new chief executive.

But as celebrations die down in Melbourne, Australian tennis is awakening to the fact that it has not one man left in the ATP's top 100.

A decade ago, the tennis powerhouse boasted a dozen in that ranking.

Melbourne, Australia  - A massage in his hotel room was the only celebration that Rafael Nadal allowed himself after winning his first edition of the Australian Open.

Exhaustion after a match that lasted over four hours Sunday did not encourage much more, and anyway the world number one does not want to relax when the season has only just started.

"The goal is to think about what lies ahead - Rotterdam. There is no margin for relaxation here," Nadal told a small group of reporters Monday in Melbourne.

After midnight, he beat Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6- 2 to win the Australian Open.

Vienna - India signed an inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday, fulfilling a main precondition before nuclear exporting countries can start to supply India's growing atomic power sector.

India's ambassador Saurabh Kumar signed the so-called safeguards agreement at the IAEA's Vienna headquarters, the IAEA confirmed. In a next step, the pact has to be ratified by the Indian government.

Under the 2006 civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, the South Asian atomic weapons state agreed to separate its military and civilian nuclear facilities.

Melbourne, February 2 : A leading public health group has advised Australians to have less red meat and dairy for their own good and that of the environment as well.

According to the Public Health Association of Australia, a more integrated approach was required towards dietary guidelines, in place of sole concentration on nutrients.

The Association''s Chief, Michael Moore suggested cutting down on red meat and dairy products to help reduce carbon emissions

"A small reduction in eating red meat and dairy would be a positive step for the environment and generally a positive step for health," News. com. au quoted him as saying.

Melbourne, February 2 : Goodness may go unrewarded, and recession is to blame. Such was the case with an Australian couple who were given the pink slip only weeks after saving the life of one of their bosses.

Sharon and David Hegyi, who have worked on Tipperary Station for seven years, were shocked to learn that they were being fired due to "down-sizing", especially when the mum-of-five had saved Station finance manager David Breed after he suffered a heart attack.

Sharon, a registered nurse, had rushed to help her suffering chief, giving him medication, hooking him up to oxygen and calling an ambulance.

Melbourne, Feb 2 : Making a stem cell breakthrough, Aussie scientists have produced the country's first human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell line - basically a cell that acts like an embryonic stem cell but instead was made from an adult skin cell.

The new technique by a Victorian and NSW team of researchers, could help in the understanding of crippling illnesses such as Parkinson''s Disease, without raising any ethical problems regarding the use of stem cells taken from human embryos.

According to Dr Paul Verma, Program Leader for Stem Cell Biology at the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Australian institutes had to earlier import iPS stem cell lines from the United States or Japan.