Sydney - Australia's early settlers were mystified by the platypus, an animal that looked like nothing else on earth and had the strangest of habits.

Melbourne, May 7 : Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter and

Vienna  -  Former BAWAG bank chief Ewald Nowotny will become new head of the country's central bank, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer confirmed after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Sydney, May 7 : Forget hand controlled joysticks and make way for a computer headset that

Melbourne, May 7 : An Australian researcher has claimed that a new class of materials invented by his team will make future gadgets work better and faster by tapping into the power of electrons.

Sydney - Cars in Australian driveways are no more fuel- efficient than those they drove when the Beatles' first album Please Please Me was in record shops.