Sydney  - A 37-year-old swimmer lost "great big chunks" of his leg when he was attacked Saturday by a 4-metre shark at a popular beach on Australia's west coast.

Sydney - One protester was arrested Friday and others cautioned at a rowdy demonstration outside the Myanmar embassy in Canberra over the regime's reluctance to allow foreign aid for victims of the

Sydney - A Sydney primary school teacher said Friday she would take legal action to get her job back after being sacked for appearing nude with her husband in a women's magazine.

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.

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

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.