Melbourne, Feb 25 : Australian cricket team vice-captain Michael Clarke and fiance Lara Bingle are reportedly interested in buying a 6.5 million dollar Bondi apartment.

Last week, Bingle confirmed that Clarke''s five-bedroom pad in Lilli Pilli, in Sydney''s south, was up for auction next month, saying she wanted to move ‘closer to the city’.

Now, a source close to Clarke said that the couple is ‘very interested in a particular Bondi apartment in the 6-7 million dollar range’.

Melbourne, Feb 25 : A bungled thief was caught after he locked himself inside the car during a break in.

London, February 25: A former model and fitness trainer in Australia is doing all that he can to stick to his New Year's resolution - to pile on more than seven stone.

Melbourne-based Paul James, 32, decided to gain more weight because he wanted to understand his fat gym clients.

The former model, who has strutted his stuff on catwalks in Tokyo and Milan, has had his Adonis-like 12½st frame ballooned to 15½st, and is on the way to his target of 20st.

Paul is relying upon kebabs, pasta, cream sauces, chocolate and other calorific carbohydrate diets to gain weight.

The former teetotaller even drinks beers every night.

Brisbane, Feb. 25: Out-of-favour Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds is set to play his 100th first class match for Queensland when the Bulls host New South Wales in a crunch Sheffield Shield fixture at the Gabba here.

"I knew I was somewhere in the 90s, but with everything that''s been going on, I had no idea I''d got to 100," the Courier Mail quoted Symonds, who played in Queensland''s Ford Ranger Cup final win on Sunday, as saying today.

Melbourne, Feb 25 : Slumdog Millionaire beauty Freida Pinto has blasted rumours suggesting that she is romancing her co-star Dev Patel, branding the 18-year-old actor a "little boy".

When asked if the pair is dating, Freida, 24, said: "No we are not. We''re not dating, no.

When quizzed again, Freida added: "Like I said, the little boy in the film - he''s a kid."

Sydney  - Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett will lead his former rock band, Midnight Oil, at a star-studded benefit concert to be held in aid of Victoria's bushfire victims in Melbourne on March 14.

Garrett will reunite with his band for the concert, which will include American rockers Kings of Leon and iconic Australian band Hunters And Collectors, amongst others at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Midnight Oil last played at the WaveAid tsunami fundraiser at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2005.