Sydney  - Animal lovers Thursday rigged up a feeding device they say could keep a month-old humpback alive long enough for its mother to reclaim it from a sheltered Sydney bay where it has been trying to suck milk from the hulls of yachts.

But animal welfare officers have told them to leave the calf alone and let experts decide its fate.

The 5-metre calf somehow got separated from its mother last week and is growing weaker by the day.

Melbourne, Aug 21: The dead body of nine-year-old boy of Indian origin Yadav Munohur was identified by his parents after it was fished out from a Melbourne creek this morning, the police confirmed.

The body was pulled from Gardiner''s Creek in Kooyong this morning about 70 meter downstream from where thongs belonging to nine-year-old Yadav were found on Sunday, reported the Herald Sun.

Yadav had been missing since August 7.

His body spotted this morning by some construction workers who thereafter reported it to the police.

Melbourne, Aug 21 : A dead body found in the Gardiner''s Creek in Kooyong is feared to be of missing schoolboy of Indian origin Yadav Munohur. The body floating on the water surface was detected by a construction worker.

Yadav Munohur''s parents Kailash and Aarti Munohur are expected to soon arrive at the creek running under the Monash Freeway to confirm the identity of the child''s body.

Sydney - Connoisseurs, business rivals, xenophobes and marketing gurus lined up to stick the boot in Starbucks when the Seattle-based coffee chain declared in July that it was closing 61 of its 85 Australian outlets with the loss of almost 700 jobs.

The coffee snobs said that the locals didn't take to the sweet and watery offerings from Starbucks. They stayed with the European-style espressos brought to Australia generations ago by Italian migrants.

"Their coffee is more like a milkshake," scoffed coffee luminary Ron Basset. "We probably have three times the coffee in ours that they do."

Sydney, Aug 20 : High-school students in Australia will be able to use iPods, the Internet and mobile phones during exams under a plan revealed by a all girls’ college.

Presbyterian Ladies'' College at Croydon in Sydney said that it was redefining the "open book" exam concept, in which students are able to bring in reference books, to take into account new technology.

The school is trialling the use of the new media with 14 and 15-year-old English students but hopes to expand its use across all subjects by year-end.

Sydney (dpa) - An Outback town where males outnumber females five to one is in an uproar over the mayor's promise to Australia's not-so-pretty women that there's a mate for them in Mount Isa.

John Malony on Wednesday refused to withdraw his claim that the scarcity of women meant the "beauty-disadvantaged" should make a beeline for the dusty Queensland mining town.

Adding insult to injury, Malony refused to leave his office to meet a delegation of 100 single women outraged by his remarks, describing them as "beauty-disadvantaged themselves."