A new study has revealed that regular activities like yoga head stands, wearing swim goggles, sleeping face down and eye rubbing may damage one’s eyes. All these activities may contribute to glaucoma that damages the optic nerve and leads to blindness.

Sydney  - A blind flamingo police believe was beaten and left for dead by a group of teenagers visiting an Australian zoo is expected to survive after vets worked through the night to treat its wounds.

"He's just an icon, he's the oldest resident of the zoo, he's just a symbol of the beauty of nature," Adelaide Zoo chief executive Chris West said Thursday.

Four teenage boys have been charged over the attack that took place in broad daylight an in front of other zoo visitors on Wednesday.

The bird, the oldest of its kind in captivity, is believed to be in its 80s, having taken up residence in the zoo in the 1930s.

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Sydney - As study after study has shown, more money, either for countries or for individuals, doesn't make for more happiness. 

What does affect our sense of wellbeing, according to researchers in Australia, is disparity in income. 

"Income doesn't seem to be affecting people's happiness, but comparative income does," said Satya Paul, an economist at the University of Western Sydney. "We compare ourselves to our peer group - sex, education, age - and if someone does better then our happiness declines." 

Professor Paul tracked the income of over 8,500 Australians in the four years to 2005 and found no correlation between the rise in incomes and a rise in happiness. 

Sydney, Oct 29 : A former high school student of Lebanese descent, who developed a phobia of “young Asian men” after allegedly being stabbed at school, is suing the New South Wales Government for negligence.

The 26-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons as he “feared for his life”, after he was stabbed in the playground in an allegedly racially motivated attack at Birrong Boys High School in 1998.

The man, whose name was suppressed in the District Court today by Judge Len Levy, is suing the NSW Department of Education for breach of duty of care.

Sydney, Oct 29 : The three Islamic militants, who are on death row after being found guilty for the Bali bombings killing 202 people, including 88 Australians, have reportedly sent a grim warning for the Australians, saying “don''t come back because we will strike again”.

Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra sent out the chilling message on the eve of their executions, in an exclusive interview with CNN to be broadcast in Australia next month.

The trio is presently held in their cells at a prison in central Java. They are due to be executed by a firing squad by early next month, with reports that it could take place as early as this weekend. Security has been beefed up around Cilacap, near Nusa Kambangan Island, where the bombers are jailed.