Canberra,
September 25: A tiny colony of yeast trapped inside a Lebanese weevil
covered in ancient Burmese amber for up to 45 million years, has been
brought back to life in barrels of modern beer.

According to a
report by ABC News, Emeritus Professor Raul Cano of the California
Polytechnic State University, originally extracted the yeast a decade
ago, along with more than 2000 different kinds of microscopic
creatures.

Today, Cano uses the reactivated yeast to brew barrels of pale ale and German wheat beer.

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Sydney, Sept. 25: A 20-year-old man, said to be from Mumbai, has was killed in a light plane crash in Sydney's west yesterday.

The aviation student is the second Indian national in a month to die in Australia while learning to fly.

The student, whose name was not released, crashed a Liberty XL2 single-engine aircraft into farmland at Luddenham just before 4.30 p. m., reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

He had moved to Sydney from Mumbai in January this year to undertake pilot training at the Sydney Flight Training Centre in Bankstown, Green Valley police said.

Last month student Akash Ananth, 24, also from India, was killed on his first solo flight over Melbourne on August 27.

Sydney - Young people are always told to get a degree because a good education is a passport to a good job.

Up to a point.

Australian research on household income shows that those who skipped university and went straight into the workforce are not destined for dead-end jobs.

Melbourne University researchers have gone over census data and found that almost a quarter of men and almost 30 per cent of women who didn't complete high school were in the top half of the earnings scale in 2005.

Sydney - It's not true that men who go to jail end up getting raped by sex-starved fellow inmates, research in Australia shows.

"We've shown that the whole belief that young and attractive people are likely to be raped in jail is a bit of a myth," Juliet Richters of Sydney's University of New South Wales said. "It's pretty safe these days, especially with the modern prisons with things like showers in cells."

Just 6 per cent of the male prisoners interviewed said they had had sexual contact, with 5 per cent of them saying sex was consensual.

Melbourne, Sept 24 : Bunk beds should carry a danger warning and must never be in the same room as a ceiling fan, urges an expert.

The researchers from Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit have found that nearly one in 10 cases of bunk-related injuries had a child being struck by a ceiling fan while on the top bunk, thereby resulting in severe cuts to the head that required surgery.

The data revealed that about 20 per cent of cases required hospital admission - and in three cases, children aged 2, 3 and 7, survived after falling off a bunk bed and out of window.

The researchers have identified 1020 cases in the nine years from 1999 to 2007.

Melbourne, Sept 24 : A pig, with a huge appetite for destruction and bananas, was finally captured after it terrorised a small community near Uki in northern New South Wales.

According to the Courier Mail, Bruce, aka Pigzilla, who had moved in and taken over a small farm outside Uki in recent weeks, was captured by rangers from the Rural Land Protection Board.

Now, the giant porker will be shipped off to a piggery at a secret location where several sows are already waiting for him.

Bruce was caught after making Caroline Hayes, 63, a prisoner in her own home by bailing her up inside the farmhouse until she fed him.

Hayes had been reduced to feeding the hungry porker dozens of bananas to placate him.