Canberra, September 1 : An Australian researcher has found that glow worms can switch their prey-caching light on and off to a daily biological rhythm.

According to a report by ABC News, the researcher in question is Dr David Merritt of the University of Queensland, who has reported his findings in the current issue of the journal Biological Rhythms.

Glow worms are larvae of a particular type of fly that only lives in Australia and New Zealand.

Special cells in the rear end of the animal produce light that is used to attract prey.

The larvae use strings of silk, beaded with sticky drops of mucus, to snare their victims that are attracted to the light.

“It’s like a spider with its web,” said Merritt.

Sydney - Qantas Airways Ltd failed to meet its own maintenance performance targets, Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) said Monday.

CASA decided to investigate the carrier after a run of technical hitches that saw an emergency landing, bits falling off planes and ground crew forgetting to empty toilet tanks.

Sydney - Things must be bad: revenues at Sydney's Star City casino are down by a quarter as the comfort blanket of a red-hot resources sector slips away and more people feel the chill of the global financial freeze.

Times must be good: the Queensland state government is spending 400,000 Australian dollars (about 350,000 US dollars) a month carting water to Cloncurry, a copper and gold mining town that is running low on supplies because its population has doubled in the past five years.

And there it is: a two-speed economy - tough times in Sydney, where a fifth of Australians live, but dollars aplenty in boom towns like Cloncurry.

Melbourne, Aug 31: A new survey has found that most Australians would back the clinical trials of cannabis for medical use.

Melbourne, August 30 : One of the world’s most infamous and brutal serial killers, Jack the Ripper, is once again in the headlines, with sleuths thinking that he might have been buried in Brisbane.

The headstone at the end of a grave at the Toowong Cemetery does not mention the man, but many believe it to be the Ripper, convicted killer, rogue impostor, backwater quack and man of a thousand identities Walter Thomas Porriott.

Porriott, whose legally acknowledged name was Andrew John Gibson, was buried amid family shame beneath his ever-faithful last wife Eliza "Bessie" Porriott.