Sydney  - If you fancy Matt Wright's job, you'll need a helicopter pilot's licence, a willingness to work alone in the wilds of Australia's far north and nerves of steel.

Wright makes a living catching crocodiles considered a danger to humans and shifting them to more isolated places.

A recent customer was a cattle station owner worried by a reptile that at 850 kilograms and 5.6 metres weighed more than a Fiat 500 and was longer than a Bentley Continental.

Taipei - Taiwanese interpreter Clare Wang became the top contender for the dream job as caretaker of an unmanned island off the coast of Australia Thursday after the No 2 candidate was disqualified.

The Queensland tourism board removed Russian candidate Julia Yalovitsyna from the top-50 shortlist because she featured in an "inappropriate video." The judging panel was also probing claims that she worked as a porn star.

Sydney - A second Australian soldier has been killed this week fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, the Defence Force announced Thursday.

The soldier was trying to defuse a roadside bomb when it exploded.

"We are devastated another soldier has been killed so soon after the death of Corporal Mathew Hopkins," Defence Force chief Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said.

Hopkins was killed on Monday in an exchange of fire with the Taliban.

Sydney, Mar 19 : India on Thursday defeated West Indies by eight wickets, but the result was not good enough to ensure them a place in Sunday’s final of the ICC Women’s World Cup. India will now face Australia on Saturday to determine the third and fourth places.

For making to the final, India needed to beat the West Indies and hoped that New Zealand would go down to Pakistan and England beat Australia in their respective Super Six matches.

Melbourne, Mar 19 : Tourism Queensland has disqualified Russian contestant from the world’s best job competition, following her alleged involvement in porn scandal.

Officials have said that "pursuant to the Terms and Conditions for the Best Job in the World", it was excluding Julia Yalovitsyna from the selection process.

Sydney, March 19 : A new study has determined that an Australian native plant is using chemical warfare to prevent its bright red flowers from being eaten, by using some quantity of cyanide.

According to a report by ABC News, the finding challenges conventional thought that flowers evolved as a way for plants to attract birds and animals that help them cross-pollinate.