Melbourne, Sept 24 : Bunk beds should carry a danger warning and must never be in the same room as a ceiling fan, urges an expert.

The researchers from Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit have found that nearly one in 10 cases of bunk-related injuries had a child being struck by a ceiling fan while on the top bunk, thereby resulting in severe cuts to the head that required surgery.

The data revealed that about 20 per cent of cases required hospital admission - and in three cases, children aged 2, 3 and 7, survived after falling off a bunk bed and out of window.

The researchers have identified 1020 cases in the nine years from 1999 to 2007.

Melbourne, Sept 24 : A pig, with a huge appetite for destruction and bananas, was finally captured after it terrorised a small community near Uki in northern New South Wales.

According to the Courier Mail, Bruce, aka Pigzilla, who had moved in and taken over a small farm outside Uki in recent weeks, was captured by rangers from the Rural Land Protection Board.

Now, the giant porker will be shipped off to a piggery at a secret location where several sows are already waiting for him.

Bruce was caught after making Caroline Hayes, 63, a prisoner in her own home by bailing her up inside the farmhouse until she fed him.

Hayes had been reduced to feeding the hungry porker dozens of bananas to placate him.

Melbourne, Sept 24: Three station workers and three backpackers were left stunned after they spotted strange lights flying over a remote station in the Northern Territory outback.

According to reports, Ray Aylett, Normie Hooker and Alan "Doc" McIntosh witnessed the bright light while they were sitting on their pergola at Muckaty Station with three European backpackers.

Aylett, 58, said that all of them were left stunned with the bizarre sighting.

"This strange light was coming straight for us, over the house," News. com. au quoted him, as saying.

Sydney - Australia might issue a patent to a South Korean scientist who falsely claimed to have cloned human embryos, news reports said Wednesday.

National patent agency IP Australia confirmed to the Sydney Morning Herald that it was reviewing a patent application from Hwang Woo Suk, formerly of Seoul National University, for his disputed technology on cloning human embryos.

Hwang was once hailed as a national hero in South Korea before being embroiled in a scandal over falsified data on 2004 and 2005 studies in which he not only claimed to have cloned human stem cells but also to have developed patient-specific stem cells.

Melbourne, Sept 24: A television news anchor who looks like Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has revealed that she''s been getting ‘hate mail and nasty phone calls’ from viewers who think she''s trying to copy her signature style.

Cindy Michaels at WVII-TV in Maine has long brown hair that she sometimes wears up in a style similar to the Alaska governor, and she also wears glasses occasionally.

Sydney, Sep 24: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has had to defend claims that he acted like a “magpie” by stealing lines from his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd in a key speech on Tuesday.

Brown’s address to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester was widely received as being one of his finest, attacking both opposition leader David Cameron and possible challengers for the leadership within his own party, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.