Sydney  - Fijians in Australia Sunday condemned the imposition of military rule in their homeland and called on the Australian government to put pressure on the regime to restore democracy.

All of Fiji's judges were sacked last week after three Australian judges sitting as the Court of Appeal ruled that the military government of Voreqe Bainimarama, who seized power in the December 2006 coup, was illegal.

Sydney, Apr 19 : A drug that has been used to treat asthma sufferers for 40 years may help fat people shed up to five kilograms a week, say Australian researchers.

The main ingredient in Ventolin could be the key behind the magical weight loss.

A firm Down Under is planning to develop a slow-release capsule form of salbutamol, known as r-salbutamol. The company claims the drug can reduce body weight by 2 to 3 per cent a week and could be on the market in three years.

Melbourne, April 18 : A plastic surgeon in Queensland has been slapped with a lawsuit after angry ex-patients teamed up to accuse the "expert" of messing up surgery on as many as 22 of them.

Isolde Hertess is facing allegations of having botched numerous medical procedures including breast implants, face-lifts, tummy tucks and liposuction.

According to The Courier-Mail, complaints from several female former patients included inability to close eyelids after a facelift and bad scars and lopsided breasts after boob jobs.

Sydney- Authorities have begun interviewing witnesses to a deadly explosion on a fishing boat carrying 49 Afghan refugees off Australia's west coast as another boat with 100 asylum seekers aboard was heading toward Australia Saturday, news reports said.

All surviving passengers, along with two crew members and 51 Australian Defence Force personnel, are to be interviewed as part of the investigation into the cause of Thursday's explosion, which left three people dead, two missing and 31 injured, some with serious burns.

Melbourne, Apr 18 : Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban, who are currently living in their new Bunya Hill mansion in the NSW Southern highlands, have reportedly added four alpacas to their livestock.

Kidman who enjoyed at the Sutton Forest, a few hours drive south of Sydney, went to the nearby Elysion Alpaca farm with daughter Sunday, mother Janelle and friends, and ended up buying four alpacas.

"Within hours of the visit four little alpacas were delivered and they''re now living on the property," News. com. au quoted a source as saying.