Melbourne, Sept 12: The principal of a Queensland school, where a 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a classmate, has dismissed the attack, saying that it was a "childhood experiment.”

According to the Courier-Mail, the principal has claimed that the girl was at fault by not immediately contacting her parents or police.

Now, the girls’ parents have slammed the school saying that the authorities still made their daughter to feel she was wrong and ordered back to the classroom where the attack took place - with her seven-year-old assailant sitting just three rows behind her.

Melbourne, Sept 12 : Despite a prior criminal record, Snoop Dogg has been a green signal for his Australian tour, after the Department of Immigration and Citizenship approved his visa.

After investigating his records, the department has approved the American rapper’s visa on the condition that he would go for counselling before arriving.

Snoop Dogg, real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, had applied for a visa earlier this year, for his scheduled tour with fellow hip-hop star Ice Cube.

"Given his criminal record, the department undertook a full character assessment of Snoop Dogg''s criminal history and previous conduct before making a decision on his visa application,'''' News. com. au quoted a departmental spokesman, as saying.

Melbourne, Sept 12 : Losalina Rainima, a Sydney woman, who contended that it was her "god-given" right to drive and refused to register her car, lost a Supreme Court appeal.

In 2004 she was jailed for three months after being caught driving an unregistered vehicle.

Originally she was placed on a five-year good behaviour bond but was resentenced after her refusal to sign the paperwork.

Rainima then endured the entirety of her nine-month maximum jail term, spending an additional six months behind bars because she refused to sign the conditions of her release.

Melbourne, Sept. 12 : Ian Thorpe, one of the world’s greatest swimmers, has turned college student by studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Macquarie University.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Thorpe, who dropped out of school at 14 to pursue his swimming, has taken up psychology and linguistics at the university.

The new student was at the Macquarie campus yesterday, hanging out in the coffee shop and attending his lectures and tutorials like any other undergraduate.

Dressed in a white shirt and brown shorts, Thorpe had only one star touch.

"You notice him straight away because of his big designer sunglasses," one campus spy said.

Vienna, The Philippines and Australia signed agreements to receive tsunami warning information from the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) on Friday.

These countries can now use CTBTO data from the organization's 232 seismic monitoring stations that were set up all over the globe to detect nuclear weapons tests.

"This will improve the capability of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology to determine the occurrence of a tsunami in the archipelago and issue public warnings," Alberto G Romulo, the Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs, said after signing the agreement.

Sydney  - An Australian civil libertarian who has spent over a year in jail for refusing to register her car Friday lost a Supreme Court appeal against a sentence she argues runs contrary to "Bible-codified common law."

Losalina Rainima will be released on Sunday but the likelihood is that she will again offend and be back behind bars because of her view that "all living things are given graces - the birds fly, the fish swim, the kangaroo hops - and I've been given the graces to drive."

Rainima is one of 3,000 members of the United People Movement Against Road Taxes (UPMART), which claims to protect human rights through "Bible-codified common law."