Australia

Hasselhoff now threatens to headbutt ‘America’s Got Talent’ co-judge

Hasselhoff now threatens to headbutt ‘America’s Got Talent’ co-judgeMelbourne, 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.

Irishman wakes from coma on St Patrick's Day

Irishman wakes from coma on St Patrick's DaySydney - 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."

Clark, Lee can’t help Australia in must-win Port Elizabeth one-day clash

Australia-CricketPort 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.

Tamil demonstrators protest continues outside Oz PM’s house

Tamil demonstrators protest continues outside Oz PM’s houseSydney, 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.

Now, a GPS-enabled inhaler to pinpoint areas that trigger asthmatic attacks

Now, a GPS-enabled inhaler to pinpoint areas that trigger asthmatic attacks

Drinking coffee could reduce stroke risk for women

Drinking coffee could reduce stroke risk for womenSydney, April 13 : Drinking coffee could lower women's risk of suffering a stroke, a new study has suggested.

The study of 83,000 women, conducted over a 24-year period by Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, revealed that women who drank five to seven cups of coffee a week were 12 per cent less likely to have a stroke than were those who downed just one cup a month.

However, German experts on stroke prevention in Berlin say that the benefit does not appear to come from caffeine, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

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