Sydney, Oct 27 : Pop Princess Kylie Minogue has been offered a role in a big budget film, which she may accept to restart her acting career.

British filmmaker John Maybury wants Minogue to re-start her acting career, and has offered her a role in his new flick.

Maybury has previously created video installations for Minogue''s concert tours.

"John told Kylie he had started to write a screenplay and he wanted to create a part for her," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted one of Minogue''s pals as telling the Mirror.

Sydney, October 27 : World-record holding swimmer Stephanie Rice said that it was time for her to head back from the party floors to the pool, and get ‘boring’ again.

The ace swimmer, who won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, revealed that she was eager to hit the pool again and concentrate on winning more medals.

The 20-year-old admitted that she was “looking forward to that whole side of things calming down and what I love doing (swimming) to become the focus again.”

Sydney, October 27: While the number of women turning to mammograms has significantly increased following breast cancer diagnoses among many celebrities, experts have found that many of them are in the under-40 age group, where mammographic screening is not effective.

"It is important to dispel the misconceptions, address unnecessary alarm and provide the facts for this age group," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Dr. Helen Zorbas, director of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre, as saying at the launch of breast cancer awareness day in Sydney.

Sydney - Australian stocks slid Monday as fears of a worldwide recession grew.

The ASX 200 lost 60 points, or 1.5 per cent, to 3,809.

Losses were stemmed by rising values in the mining sector. Market leader BHP Billiton was up 1.5 per cent as bargain hunters moved on a counter considered oversold. Gold miners also did better.

The local currency was trading at a five-year low. It has lost 37 per cent in value against the US dollar in three months.

The Australian dollar was trading at 61 US cents, up from the low of 60 cents on Friday.

Sydney - Prostitution is regulated differently in Australia's six states, allowing researchers like Basil Donovan to compare how the industry operates under different rules and the implications for public health.

Donovan, from the University of New South Wales, found that sex workers in his state had the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted disease.

If the health of those who work in the industry was the only consideration, he argues, other jurisdictions should fall into line with the biggest state and decriminalize prostitution and deregulate the industry.

"The prevalence of gonorrhoea in sex workers in Sydney is as close as you can get to zero," Donovan, an internationally recognized expert in sexual health, said.

Sydney - Australian stocks tumbled at the bell Monday following heavy losses last week.

The ASX 200 lost 90 points, or 2.3 per cent, in early trading to 3,689.

Falling commodity prices and fears of a global recession took the local currency to a five-year low.

The Australian dollar was trading at 61 US cents - up from the low of 60 cents on Friday.