Sydney  - Good health, freedom of choice, political liberty, civil rights - these, along with high income, make Australians the most prosperous people in the world, found a study by the Dubai-based Legatum Institute ranking countries according to their prosperity.

The privately-funded think tank noted that there was no direct correlation between wealth and happiness. While it was true that income was a good indicator of wellbeing in very poor countries, earnings did not link with happiness in rich countries.

Study after study has downplayed money as a predictor of how we feel about our lives. It's a finding that comes as no surprise to Melbourne lawyer and academic Mirko Bagaric.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : Lara Bingle, fiance of Australian cricket team’s vice-captain Michael Clarke, has been signed as a presenter at the 2009 MTV Awards.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : An Aussie teenager was dragged to court after his baggy trousers fell so low that he exposed himself - just as a female police officer was walking past.

According to the Sunshine Coast Daily, Trent Joseph Wroe, 19, was fined for 250 dollars for indecent exposure at a night out in Mooloolaba on February 28.

A female police officer was walking past Wroe when his pants fell down, and she arrested him for public nuisance, reports the Courier Mail.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : Former Playboy bunny Kendra Wilkinson desperately wants a priest to solemnize her wedding at the Playboy mansion.

Kendra, who lived in the playboy mansion for 5 years, will be walking down the aisle with beau American NFL player Hank Baskett.

However, she is finding it difficult to find a man of religion to carry out the ceremony at the playboy mansion.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl has pleaded guilty to all the charges with which he has been charged, including murdering one of the children he fathered with his daughter Elisabeth, whom he kept as a sex slave for 24 years.

At the start of the third day of his trial, the Austrian engineer changed his plea to guilty on all charges, including the murder for which he faces a life sentence.

"I plead guilty to the crimes I''ve been charged with," News. com. au quoted him as saying.

Melbourne, Mar 18 : While Kylie Minogue is holidaying with new beau Andres Velencoso at Port Douglas, a large number of people have reported spotting the duo as far south as Palm Cove.

Many readers have phoned and texted about their own encounters with the Australian singer and her Spanish model beau.

According to reports, Minogue is staying at the Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas after flying into Cairns on March 15 straight from Melbourne, where she performed at the Sound Relief concert.