Sydney, Nov. 29 : Australian television actress Brooke Satchwell today said that she was “ really bloody lucky,'''' to be back home after experiencing the terror attacks in Mumbai.

Sydney  - A Qantas Airways jet aborted a flight to Singapore and returned to the Australian west coast city of Perth after one of its two engines was shut down, news reports said Saturday.

The Airbus A330 with 168 passengers aboard turned back Friday when an engine oil warning light flashed in the cockpit.

Aviation sources told The Sydney Morning Herald that the engine starter motor failed because maintenance engineers in Hong Kong had forgotten to oil the motor after an overhaul last week.

Sydney, Nov 28 : An 11-year-old Aussie student has smashed the Guinness world record by competing the sudoku puzzle in one minute and 38 seconds.

Lucus Yeo, from Castle Hill Public School, has beaten the world record of a 27-year-old American with a PhD in chemistry, who completed it in two minutes and 8 seconds.

It took 10 days for him to complete his first puzzle several years ago.

"So from then on I was just trying to beat 10 days, and then it became a few minutes. Now here I am," Sydney Morning Herald quoted Yeo as saying.

Sydney, Nov 28 : Before the inaugural edition of the next week’s Twenty20 Champions League was “postponed” in the wake of Mumbai terror strikes on Wednesday night, some of senior Australian cricketers had come under heavy pressure from their wives and families to ignore the huge money on offer and refuse to tour, even though a few others were keen to go for the tournament.

Both Mathew Hayden and Mike Hussey have young families while Watson, dropped for the second Test team, has been spending time with his partner Lee Furlong this week.

Sydney, Nov 27 : Natalie Portman was in the running to play the role of an emotionally conflicted nun in new movie ‘Doubt’, but the actress turned down the part because she didn''t "understand celibacy".

Director John Patrick Shanley revealed that he approached Natalie for playing the role of Sister James, which was eventually taken by Amy Adams.

Sydney - A leader of Australia's 300,000 Muslims on Thursday said terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai were "abhorrent, despicable and outrageous."

"Attacks against innocent persons are abhorrent to all peaceful people and to all faiths and those who engage in this behaviour stand condemned," Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Ikebal Adam Patel said in a statement.

"People of goodwill and faith must double their efforts and resources to fight against such acts of barbarism and inhumanity."