Melbourne, Nov 2 : Although the ‘art’ called ‘shopping’ has no ‘science’ behind it, a mathematician has come up with the prefect formula for spending spree.
Roger Bird’s algebraic formula takes in certain factors, which include time constraints, the number of shoppers in the group and the amount of spending money, to calculate the best conditions for a shopping trip.
The researcher from Bradford Education Authority, in Britain, devised the formula based on results of a shopping centre survey of 1000 people.
As per Bird''s findings, the perfect excursion involved a visit to several clothing stores located close to each other between 9am and 11am on a Saturday, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Bogota - Five suitcases belonging to the staff of Australian pop singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue were stolen ahead of a concert in Colombian capital Bogota Saturday, media reports said.
The concert is part of her X 2008 tour and is her first in Latin America.
The suitcases contained computer parts, equipment, costumes and passports of some of the singer's staff. They were stolen from the concert venue late Friday, where people were busy setting up the stage.
Melbourne, Nov 1 : A colony of ghost bats, born at Featherdale Wildlife Park near Blacktown, has moved into Sydney Wildlife World at Darling Harbour for Halloween.
The carers for the four one-year-old bats were worried that they may not adapt to their new surroundings, but they put their fears aside after the male bats took to the specially renovated nocturnal enclosure with gusto.
A part of the Wildlife World’s sanctuary for nocturnal exhibits had to be renovated to include a specialised cave that is warmer, darker and more humid.
Sydney - An Australian passenger jet returned to Darwin 30 minutes after take-off because drunken passengers aboard the Singapore flight refused to behave, Jetstar said Saturday.
Sydney - A Democrat in the White House after next week's presidential election could usher in a round of protectionism that would do further damage to the world economy, media baron Rupert Murdoch warned Saturday.
The chairman and chief executive of US-based News Corp said imposing new tariffs on Chinese imports could be the blue touch paper for a trade war.
Sydney - An Australian circus performer will climb aboard 17-metre poles in an attempt to break the world record for stilt walking, news reports said Saturday.
National record-holder Roy Maloy will take off on stilts the height of a four-storey building.
"To build the tallest stilts ever, it's not just one piece of wood, which I made the Australian record stilts out of, you need to make them out of three pieces of very lightweight aluminium that are all welded together like a scaffold," Maloy told national broadcaster ABC in Adelaide.
Bogota - Five suitcases belonging to the staff of Australian pop singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue were stolen ahead of a concert in Colombian capital Bogota Saturday, media reports said.
Melbourne, Nov 1 : A colony of ghost bats, born at Featherdale Wildlife Park near Blacktown, has moved into Sydney Wildlife World at Darling Harbour for Halloween.
Sydney - A Democrat in the White House after next week's presidential election could usher in a round of protectionism that would do further damage to the world economy, media baron Rupert Murdoch warned Saturday.
Sydney - An Australian circus performer will climb aboard 17-metre poles in an attempt to break the world record for stilt walking, news reports said Saturday.
