Sydney  - Sydney surgeons said Tuesday it was a miracle that Bondi Beach shark attack victim Glenn Orgias has two hands rather than just one.

"I thought the hopes for the hand were close to zero, but I have hope in time that Glenn will have a working hand," plastic surgeon Kevin Ho said. "We're far from out of the woods, but I think for him to make it to this stage is a minor miracle."

Sydney  - A feud between rival Aboriginal families in the remote Australian town of Tennant Creek sparked a street battle among more than 100 people armed with clubs, boomerangs, axes and knives, Northern Territory police said Tuesday.

A 63-year-old woman was airlifted to Alice Springs Hospital after being clubbed.

"We will not tolerate people, under any circumstances, taking the law into their own hands," Superintendent Bruce Porter said.

Sydney, Feb. 23 : About 20,000 Sydney residents turned up to watch a celebrity match to raise funds for victims of the Victorian bushfires on Sunday.

Organized by Peter Garrett, the Federal Member for Kingsford, the match was played between the Steve Waugh''s XI and Mark Taylor XI in the Big Bash Twenty20 match at the SCG.

Sydney - One-third of the 34,684 applicants for the dream job of caretaker on a paradise island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef were from the United States, Queensland state Tourism Minister Desley Boyle said Monday.

Some jobseekers were unable to lodge their 60-second video clips because the website crashed under an avalanche of last-minute applications for a post that pays a lot of money for very little work.

"We'd been advising people for a couple of weeks not to leave their submission until the last minute," Boyle said. "This massive amount of traffic slowed the site down and, regretfully, some people weren't able to get their video application in by the deadline."

Sydney  - Australian John Allwood broke his own world record Sunday by smashing 47 watermelons with his forehead in 60 seconds.

Sydney, Feb 22 : Celebrity agent Max Markson is planning to bring former US president George Bush to Australia and charge 1000-dollar-a head to hear him talk.

"I was on a cruise in the Caribbean the day after President [Barack] Obama was sworn in and I received an email asking if I could arrange for president Bush to come out," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Markson, as saying.

Markson had previously organised speaking trips for Bush''s father and Bill Clinton after their terms as US president.