Melbourne, Aug 11 : The ongoing Olympic Games will see a large number of veiled female athletes from various Muslim nations competing for events like sprinting, rowing, taekwondo and archery.

Most of these athletes have got themselves specially tailored aerodynamic veils, which expose only their face and hands.

All these veiled athletes are determined to avoid offending devout Muslims back home, as well as showing skimpily dressed rivals there is nothing constricting about wearing "hijab".

Melbourne, Aug 11 : Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Unit have been called in to help search for missing nine-year-old boy Yadav Munohur, who has been missing for last four days.

The search for Yadav will continue today along the Yarra River at Hawthorn where he was last seen. Searchers have failed to find any signs of him.

"We’re now into our fourth day and we’re very concerned,” a police spokeswoman said.

Seoul - South Korea and Australia agreed Monday to begin preparatory talks for a bilateral free trade pact and to boost economic ties, the presidential office in Seoul said.

South Korean President Lee Myung Bak met visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and welcomed the recommendation of a study group that a trade agreement would benefit to both countries' economic growth and trade expansion, the office said.

It didn't specify when trade talks would start.

Melbourne, Aug 11 : Once known as the world’s heaviest man, Manuel Uribe, stepped out of the house for the first time in five months, accompanied by his girlfriend.

The 43-year-old, who once weighed nearly 560kg, went on a day trip to a lake in Northern Mexico, reports the Daily Telegraph.

He was taken from his home on a forklift, and loaded onto a platform truck.

Uribe has been dieting, and now weighs around 310kg.

Melbourne, Aug 11 : Olympic gold medallist swimmer Stephanie Rice has revealed on the website Facebook that she can let her hair down just like any other person.

Rice, who stands to make a fortune in endorsement dollars over the coming years, posted a number of pictures on her Facebook page showing that she too knows how to have fun, News. com. au reported.

The 20-year-old medley star from Brisbane was seen posing for the camera in a skimpy policewoman''s uniform alongside fellow Brisbane swimmer Bronte Barratt.

Melbourne, Aug. 9 : An adopted Indian boy has been reported missing after falling into Melbourne’s Yarra River. A Herald Sun report said that Victoria Police are hoping that the missing nine-year-old Yadav Munohur is still alive after failing to find him in an extensive search of the Yarra River and its surrounds in Hawthorn.

Munohur has not been seen since he pleaded with his mother to be allowed to go and play in Kooyong Park Thursday evening.

When she refused, the grade 4 student ran from the family''s Hawthorn apartment, and has not been seen since.