Melbourne, Apr 13 : A madame of Australia's biggest escort agency has urged to lift the ban on sex job advertisements, insisting it to be "unfair".

Michelle, who operates Blondies in Darwin, said that jobs in the sex industry should be advertised through government employment services.

Australian Sex Party convenor Fiona Patten said that escort agencies and brothels "couldn''t even advertise for a cleaner or an accountant" through government offices.

Michelle has asked to revoke the ban, even though she has doubts about luring women into the sex industry.

"As the operator of an escort agency, I agree," the Northern Territory quoted her as saying.

Sydney - Australia looks set to join the United States in boycotting a United Nations anti-racism conference to be held in Switzerland later this month. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Monday it was the likely that the Durban Review Conference, to be held April 20-24 in Geneva, could see a reprise of the anti-Semitism that marked the initial South African event in 2001.

Melbourne, Apr 13 : David Hasselhoff certainly needs to know about anger management, for once again the actor got in a fit of rage and threatened to headbutt a co-judge on a TV reality show.

The 56-year-old threatened to headbutt Piers Morgan in front of a stunned live television audience on the set of ‘America’s Got Talent’.

The Mail On Sunday newspaper in the UK reported that the former Baywatch star began "verbally assaulting" his fellow judge following a difference in opinion on a magic act.

Sydney - An Irishman brought home to die after being beaten senseless on a Sydney street in August has surprised his doctors and his family by coming back from the dead in a Cork hospital on St Patrick's Day. David Keohane, 29, came out of a coma eight months after sustaining serious head injuries in the attack, news reports said Monday.

"He's awake, he's talking, he's recognising everyone," a family friend told Irish newspaper the Evening Herald. "He was looking at pictures and he could tell who everyone was, which was amazing."

Port Elizabeth, Apr 13 : The Australian new-ball pair of Stuart Clark and Brett Lee have returned to the squad, but neither will be of any help to skipper Ricky Ponting in Monday’s must-win one-day clash here with South Africa.

Lee, who is in Port Elizabeth training with his IPL team, met Australian coach Tim Nielsen on Saturday and will join the Australian ODI squad on April 18 when they fly from Johannesburg to Dubai for a series against Pakistan.

Sydney, Apr 13 : Hundreds of Tamil demonstrators protesting outside the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Sydney residence say that they will stay there until the Australian Government urges the Sri Lankan Government to call for a ceasefire with the Tamil Tigers.

Protester Geetha Mano, 24, said the rally would continue until they got some response from Rudd or Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith.