Sydney - Doctors at a Sydney hospital used saline solution to remove a leech that had attached itself to an Australian woman's eyeball, news reports said Monday.
"It was tucked up underneath her upper eyelid," emergency room doctor Toby Fogg said. "Our little fellow started off at about half a centimetre and by the time we removed it, it was about 2 centimetres long. It had quite a good lunch."
The 66-year-old woman was gardening when the leech found its way into her eye.
Sydney - An Australian law lecturer was jailed Monday for contempt of court after pulling down her trousers and baring her buttocks to the presiding judge.
Megumi Ogawa, 41, was sentenced to four months' jail in a Brisbane court for what Judge Stuart Durward said was "disgusting behaviour" at an earlier trial where she was found guilty of harassing court officials.
During the earlier trial, the court was told the Southern Cross University staff member threatened court officials with death and sent them 83 emails and made 176 phone calls.
Sydney - US doctor Jayant Patel on Monday was committed to stand trial in Australia for the deaths of three of his patients in a Queensland hospital in what police allege was bungled surgery.
The manslaughter charges stem from Indian-born Patel's time as director of surgery at Bundaberg Base Hospital between 2003 and 2005.
Patel, 59, was extradited from Portland, Oregon, to face the charges.
Sydney - The minister in charge of road safety in South Australia state said Monday he had difficult keeping up with all his traffic offences.
Tom Koutsantonis' penchant for speeding, running red lights and telephoning while driving have earned him 30 tickets and a suspended driving license.
"Well, look, I'll check all that, but from what I understand is that the fines have come in, I haven't seen them, they've gone overdue, they've gone to court, the fines come through, and the fine has been paid," he said.
Sydney, Apr 19 : Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has admitted that her husband Keith Urban''s alcohol problems sent their fledgling union into a tailspin.
"We were thrown into his alcohol problems three months into the marriage and that was big," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted the 41-year-old actress, as telling the Daily Mail newspaper.
The Australian beauty confessed that Urban had admitted his problem and spent time in rehabilitation, a step that made their relationship stronger.
Sydney, Apr 19 : A drug that has been used to treat asthma sufferers for 40 years may help fat people shed up to five kilograms a week, say Australian researchers.
The main ingredient in Ventolin could be the key behind the magical weight loss.
A firm Down Under is planning to develop a slow-release capsule form of salbutamol, known as r-salbutamol. The company claims the drug can reduce body weight by 2 to 3 per cent a week and could be on the market in three years.
Sydney - Doctors at a Sydney hospital used saline solution to remove a leech that had attached itself to an Australian woman's eyeball, news reports said Monday.
Sydney - An Australian law lecturer was jailed Monday for contempt of court after pulling down her trousers and baring her buttocks to the presiding judge.
Sydney - US doctor Jayant Patel on Monday was committed to stand trial in Australia for the deaths of three of his patients in a Queensland hospital in what police allege was bungled surgery.
Sydney - The minister in charge of road safety in South Australia state said Monday he had difficult keeping up with all his traffic offences.
Sydney, Apr 19 : Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has admitted that her husband Keith Urban''s alcohol problems sent their fledgling union into a tailspin.
Sydney, Apr 19 : A drug that has been used to treat asthma sufferers for 40 years may help fat people shed up to five kilograms a week, say Australian researchers.
