Melbourne, Mar 18 : While Kylie Minogue is holidaying with new beau Andres Velencoso at Port Douglas, a large number of people have reported spotting the duo as far south as Palm Cove.

Many readers have phoned and texted about their own encounters with the Australian singer and her Spanish model beau.

According to reports, Minogue is staying at the Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas after flying into Cairns on March 15 straight from Melbourne, where she performed at the Sound Relief concert.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : Tourism Queensland has asked the Russian `Best Job in the World' candidate to explain her alleged involvement in a porn scandal.

The tourism officials have asked for a formal response from Julia Yalovitsyna, 29, who allegedly works as a model for an illegal porn studio and coach women for sexually explicit films.

However, they have received no reply till now.

London, Mar. 18: The ex-husband of Australian politician Pauline Hanson, Walter Zagorski, has said that the lady posing in bawdy photographs that were released to the media were not Hanson’s.

“If I was asked to give my honest opinion, I would say that it is not Pauline in those photographs. The woman there looks a lot like her, but it is not her,” The Daily Telegraph quoted Zagorski, as saying.

“The give-away is the nose, Pauline''s nose was always quite large and noticeable," he added.

Sydney, March 18 : An ecologist has said that large herbivores like elephants need to be introduced in regions such as Australia and South America, which would help save threatened native plants.

According to a report by ABC News, Professor Chris Johnson, of James Cook University, Far North Queensland, Australia, ecologist has called for the introduction of elephants into South America and the creation of Pleistocene parks across the world.

"The re-introduction of large herbivores to the Americas would help restore ecosystems and save threatened native species," he said.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : A computer game called `House of the Dead: Overkill' has made a Guinness World Record for being the most profane in the history of video games.

Designed for the family-friendly Ninetndo Wii console, the game features 189 uses of the F-word.

Guinness, the worldwide authority for record breaking, has recognised it in its gamer edition.

The F-word accounts for three per cent of all words spoken, and equates to just over one per minute in the game.

`House of the Dead: Overkill' is a violent shooter game rated MA15+, in which players have to hunt down a crime lord in a small town over-run by mutants.

Sydney  - The 31 containers lost overboard when the Pacific Adventurer was buffeted by a storm off Australia's east coast a week ago would be hard to recover, an expert said Wednesday.

The Navy mine hunter HMAS Yarra was sent to look for the lost boxes of ammonium nitrate after an aerial survey failed to find them.

Greg Boller from the ocean-monitoring firm Tide Tech said the containers could have travelled 700 kilometres from the scene of the accident and be nearer Sydney than Brisbane.