Melbourne, Oct 30 : Scientists in Melbourne have given cancer patients a ray of hope after they found that a new combination drug therapy would revolutionize the treatment for the deadly disease.

Boffins at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have found that drug-resistant melanoma and colon cancer cells can be successfully treated using a combination of two new drugs.

With the help of a mouse model of the disease, scientists combined a cancer inhibitor drug, which slows cancer cells’ growth, with a drug that harnesses the body''s cell-killing machinery to induce the death of the cancer cells.

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Lockhart, Australia - The wheat on Colin Weise's 513-hectare property near the town of Lockhart in Australia's south-east is ripening to a biscuit brown.

"It's the wonder crop. If they were weeds, they'd be dead," he said approvingly.

The crop has received hardly any rain this year and in October it should be tall, heavy and dark green rather than knee-high, feathery and fawn.

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 - Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, will tour the world with a reconstituted Jackson 5, his older brother Jermaine Jackson said in Sydney on Wednesday.

"This has been a long time coming for the Jackson family to get back together," Jackson told Australia's AAP news agency. "It's just the timing," he said. "So what we've been doing is working on the music and all the logistics."

The Jackson 5 were hugely successful in the 1970s and rumours of a reunion have been circulating for some time.

Melbourne, Oct 29 : Aussie Sprint swimmer Eamon Sullivan is currently dating Perth model Brooke Vivoda, who is the face of motoring website modyourcar. com. au.

Sullivan was accused of trying to upstage former flame Stephanie Rice by parading Vivoda at the Telstra Swimmer of the Year Awards in Sydney on October 27.

The two had first been seen together at a Perth bar in August on his return from Beijing, but Vivoda denied any new romance, saying they were simply old friends.

“We''re not a couple yet. There''s no reason for speculation,” the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.

“We''ve known each other for a while through friends,” she added.