Sydney  - The Australian government Tuesday scrapped a tender process and announced it would form a new company to build a national high-speed fibre-optic broadband network.

The company would be a public-private partnership, with Canberra selling its majority stake when the 43-billion-Australian-dollar (30- billion-US-dollar) project is completed.

"It's the most ambitious, far-reaching and long-term nation- building infrastructure project ever undertaken by an Australian government," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said.

Sydney - The list of 801 Jews threatened by Nazi persecution that was drawn up by German industrialist Oskar Schindler in 1945 has resurfaced in Australia and will go on show at a Sydney library, news reports said Monday.

It's actually a carbon-copy, typed at the same time as the carbon copy that is among the prized exhibits at the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, but it's priceless all the same because few carbon copies survived and the original has never been found.

Melbourne, Apr 6 : Pop star Beyonce Knowles will be taking her `I Am' tour to Australia in September.

The Bootylicious singer kicked off her dazzling tour in Canada last week.

Sydney, Apr 6 : One in 10 young Australian women take illicit drugs to reduce weight, according to a survey.

Conducted for Grazia magazine, the survey has shown that 10 per cent of women used stimulants like cocaine and speed in a bid to shed weight.

While 67 per cent were in a healthy weight range, 57 per cent of the young women considered themselves overweight, of which another 57 per cent wanted to be size 8 or smaller.

Melbourne, April 6 : It looks like pop princess Kylie Minogue and her lover Spanish model Andres Velencoso are taking their relationship to the next level.

Velencoso reportedly moved into the singer''''s London home in the posh locality of Chelsea, while Minogue was visiting her parents in Australia.

Minogue has cast Velencoso as the face of her new men''''s fragrance, and brought him home to Melbourne to meet her family.

The couple also enjoyed a brief holiday in the Queensland sun.

Sydney - Australian international rugby player Shawn Mackay died Monday in a South