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Now, mums-to-be can share their babies’ ''kicks'' on Facebook!

Melbourne, Dec 18 (ANI): Mums-to-be will now be able to share the exciting feeling of the little feet kicking inside their wombs with their friends on social networking sites like Facebook - courtesy stretchy pregnancy belt.

The Kickbee belt was developed by PhD student Corey Menscher, of New York University after his wife became pregnant.

However, the belt is still in the prototype stage.

It uses sensors to track the movement of the fetus in the womb that will allow expectant mothers to automatically post daily progress reports of their child on the Internet.

It sends a signal to a computer every time the baby moves, with a message such as: "I kicked mummy at 11.38am."

''Undetectable’ suicide device to be unveiled

Melbourne, Dec 18 : Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is set to launch a new death device that is undetectable during an autopsy.

Nitschke said the method - which uses legally obtaining household products including a barbecue gas bottle - is "flawless" and has the unique characteristic of being undetectable which will make it harder to prove suicide.

He said a patient using the system immediately loses consciousness and dies a few minutes later, according to The Advertiser.

"So it''s extremely quick and there are no drugs. Importantly this doesn''t fail - it''s reliable, peaceful, available and with the additional benefit of undetectability," News. com. au quoted Nitschke, as saying.

Euthanasia unveils ''''undetectable’ suicide device

Melbourne, Dec 18: Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke has attracted controversy by launching a new death device that is undetectable during an autopsy.

Nitschke said the method - which uses legally obtaining household products including a barbecue gas bottle - is "flawless" and has the unique characteristic of being undetectable which will make it harder to prove suicide.

He said a patient using the system immediately loses consciousness and dies a few minutes later, according to The Advertiser.

Battered Indian origin doc in Melbourne bounces back after near fatal ordeal

Melbourne, Dec 18 : Each day is a bonus for Indian origin doctor, Mukesh Haikerwal, who is determined not to let his brutal assault last year in Dennis Reserve, Williamstown, take over his life.

Dr Haikerwal has returned to work mapping out national hospital reforms, saying that his recovery is on track and he hopes to start seeing patients in January, The Age reported.

Despite near-fatal head wounds from baseball bat blows in a Williamstown park in September 2007, and fears that he would suffer permanent brain injury, the former doctors' union president was in Canberra on Tuesday immersed in the complexities of health policy.

Indian student killed in plane collision at Sydney’s Bankstown Airport

Melbourne, Dec 18 : Two women, believed to be in their 20s, were killed when a light plane crashed into a house after a mid-air collision with another plane today in Sydney's southwest.

The pilot and her passenger died when their Cessna hit the rear of a two-storey house in Sydney, the Daily Telegraph reported.

It is believed one of the dead women was a 23-year-old from India who was studying in Sydney.

Assistant Police Commissioner Frank Menilli said the rear of the house was a mess, and the back patio had been destroyed.

But the mother who lived at the home with her newborn baby escaped the tragedy, because she was taking the tot to visit Santa.

Dokic still in wildcard chase after playoff win

Jelena DokicMelbourne, - Former world number four Jelena Dokic on Wednesday kept her dream of an Australian Open wild card place alive, reaching the quarter-finals with a straight-set victory,

Dokic, 25, and fighting through a comeback in the sport, beat Victorian teenager Marijia Mirkovic 6-4, 6-2, riding a 4-0 lead in the second set to the win.

"I was happier with my match today, I played a bad match yesterday," said Dokic, who lost on Tuesday but stayed alive thanks to the round-robin format of the competition.

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