Melbourne, Mar. 31: Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt and his wife Bec have started legal action against the New Idea magazine after it claimed the actress was seeing another man - who in reality was her brother.

The magazine ran a cover story titled "Bec''s other man" and claimed she was spending more and more time with a "hunky" American fitness trainer.

The magazine carried photographs of Bec and "Minder Mark" with the Hewitts'' two young children.

Sydney  - Canberra police stand guard as a motorcade sweeps along closed roads in a blaze of black metal and shiny chrome.

It's not a visiting head of state going by but the bullet-holed body of slain motorcycle gang leader Richard Roberts.

Australia's motorcycle gangs are at war and police in the national capital are out in the streets making sure vengeance is left to another day.

Melbourne - Ferrari have reacted with a large degree of self-criticism to the Italian team's disappointing start to the 2009 Formula One season when Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen both finished out of the points in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

"This was, no matter what way you look at it, definitely not a start worthy of Ferrari. It was a day to forget," said Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali after Massa and Raikkonen failed to point at the season-opening race won by Jenson Button of Brawn GP.

Melbourne - Jenson Button says there is more to come from his Brawn GP Formula One team in 2009 after the British driver and team-mate Rubens Barrichello finished first and second in Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Button led from start to finish at the Albert Park circuit as Brawn GP become the first debut team to finish one-two since 1954, when Juan Manuel Fangio led home Karl Kling for Mercedes in the French Grand Prix.

Melbourne, March 30 : Aussie pro-euthanasia campaigner Dr. Philip Nitschke is contemplating launching lethal drug kits in the UK, which will enable people to check the strength of drugs they purchase to commit suicide.

He has revealed in his organisation Exit International's newsletter 'Quoting Deliverance, that the 35-pound kits would be released in May, to coincided with his planned tour of Britain.

According to The Observer, the heart of such kits are chemicals that change colour when mixed with lethal barbiturates.

Sydney - Police on Monday lowered the death toll from last month's forest fires north of Melbourne from 210 to 173.

The February 7 blazes were Australia's biggest natural disaster, destroying over 1,800 houses, leaving 7,500 people homeless and blackening 450,000 hectares of forest.

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe said the tally had always been provisional and that the downward revision was a "good news story" because fewer people were now believed to have died.