Sydney - It's not surprising that Lebanon-born Keysar Trad has nine children.

His homeland abounds with big families and he simply brought that tradition to Australia with him.

By the same measure, immigrants from China, where the one-child family is the norm, often stick with that paradigm in their new country - even though there is no state apparatus enforcing it.

"It seems that they genuinely prefer it," said Macquarie University demographer Nick Parr.

Melbourne, Aug. 6 : After refusing all along to make public its investigations into last year’s bungled case against Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, the Australian Federal Police on Wednesday said that it would provide an uncensored version of its submission to the public inquiry.

"The Australian Federal police (AFP) was in the process of compiling a public version of its submission, devoid of sensitive information supplied to the AFP by the London Metropolitan Police Service," a Clarke inquiry spokesman was quoted as saying by The Australian.

Melbourne, Aug 6 : Aussie couples may soon be asked to curb any plans to have a third baby, for the nation''s productivity watchdog has warned that a further increase in the birth rate would actually harm the economy and not improve it.

While a major analysis of the nation''s increasing fertility rate indicated that it has reached at its highest level for 25 years, the Productivity Commission has cautioned that a further increase may aggravate the problem of the ageing of the population instead of solving it.

That’s because it will actually make the women move out of the workforce for taking care of the babies, depressing labour supply and reducing the taxation base as the population ages.

London, Aug 5: Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl may be charged with slavery and murder, say prosecutors.

Prosecutors hope to formally charge Fritzl in September and put him on trial in December.

According to investigators, the 73-year-old has confessed to locking up daughter Elisabeth, 42, for 24 years, raping her and fathering her seven kids.

Fritzl can face a murder charge if it can be proved that one infant, who died just after birth, would have survived if it had got medical treatment. He may be locked up for 20 years.

Melbourne, Aug 4 : The British couple arrested in Dubai for allegedly having sex on a beach will be facing trial on August 21.

Michelle Palmer, 30, and Vince Acors, 34, may be given the harshest sentence after DNA tests proved they had "full sex", News. com. au reported.

The couple could be sentenced up to six years in jail after Dubai police charged the two British tourists with having sex in public, illicit sex and being drunk in public.

The two had denied the charges, but the DNA tests proved that they had full sex, and as per reports from The Sun newspaper, Acors had admitted to the act.

Melbourne, Aug. 4 : The Australian Federal Police has said that without the consent of the British authorities, it would be impossible for them to make public their submissions on investigations related to the bungled terrorism case against Dr. Mohamed Haneef.

AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty was quoted by The Australian as saying that the “problem is the material that we''ve provided to Mr (Judge) Clarke, a good proportion of it, belongs to the United Kingdom authorities and we don''t have consent to release that. I don''t have consent to release that, the organisation doesn''t have consent to release it, nor does Mr Clarke.”