Melbourne, July 27 : Prince William took part in a British navy helicopter raid that opened fire on a speedboat believed to be used by drug runners, reports the Ministry of Defence.

On July 18, the 26-year-old, who is serving with British frigate HMS Iron Duke in the Caribbean, was on a Lynx helicopter that chased down the speedboat suspected of involvement in trafficking cocaine, reports News. com. au.

The helicopter chased the 9m boat about 175 km north of Venezuela''s and Colombia''s coastlines as it tried to avoid detection and ignored warning shots.

Sydney - Passengers on a Qantas jumbo jet that was forced to land in Manila said Sunday that lives were put at risk because oxygen masks failed to deploy or turned out to be faulty.

"The elastic was so old that it had deteriorated," David Saunders told The Age newspaper. "I was trying to get my passport, and every time I got my passport the mask fell off and I started to pass out."

Melbourne, July 26 : Moonwalk astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell caused a worldwide stir by claiming that aliens exist. Now, he has made yet another sensational statement saying that there was a cover-up over the infamous Roswell alien incident of the 1940s.

The ex-NASA astronaut found himself in the news regarding remarks he made on the British radio program Kerrang! about believing in aliens, and the long-rumored UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

Dr Mitchell claims his information on Roswell comes from "old timers".

Perth, July 26 : Condoleezza Rice showed a little bit more than she intended at a recent Perth visit, courtesy her flesh-coloured blouse.

Dr Rice started day two of her Perth stopover with a morning coffee at trendy Perth cafe Cino To Go, with her host, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith. With the camera lights flashing her blouse appeared a little more revealing that she would have expected.

Later, Dr Rice cheered and applauded by 450 schoolgirls after answering their questions during a visit to their school.

Melbourne, July 26 : Organisers of next month’s Beijing Olympics have received a fresh threat from the separatist Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), which has already claimed responsibility for the May bus bombing in Shanghai.

A group monitoring terror threats on the Internet was quoted by The Herald as saying that TIP Commander Seyfullah has claimed credit for several attacks in China less than a fortnight out from the start of the Olympics.

Seyfullah says in a video clip monitored by the Washington-based Intel Center that more attacks will take place from Yunnan, the base of TIP.

London, July 26: Rosemarie, the wife of Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, has lost almost 3st since her evil husband’s arrest in April.

The 69-year-old has returned to her home city after a rift with daughter Elisabeth, who was kept as a sex slave for 24 years in the town of Amstetten by Fritzl, 73.

Referring to her weight loss, Rosemarie’s pals said that she has become “a shadow of her former self”.

Friends are worried for her health after she was seen shopping this week in Linz, Austria — the city where she lived until she was 17.

“She has very little money. When she goes shopping, she never spends more than four or five pounds for the basics,” The Sun quoted her, as saying.