Sydney, July 14 : A British study has revealed that playing interactive sports video games like the Nintendo Wii help children burn over 50 per cent more energy than playing sedentary computer game

Melbourne, July 14 : A study conducted by Australian researchers has revealed that people who do not engage in complex mental activity over their lifetime have twice the shrinkage in a key part of

Sydney - Despite Pope Benedict XVI putting global warming on the agenda for his visit to Sydney for an international youth gathering, the leader of Australia's 5 million Catholics came out Monday as a climate change sceptic.

Speaking to reporters Sunday during his 23-hour flight from Rome, the pontiff said, "We have to give impulse to rediscovering our responsibility and to finding an ethical way to change our way of life."

"I have no intention of entering into technical or political questions, but the church has to give fundamental impulses in order to help politics tackle these challenges," said the Holy Father, who, after his arrival, was resting in Sydney before beginning his official duties Thursday.

Sydney - They came, they saw, they concurred: Catholic pilgrims flooding Sydney on Monday reckoned that meeting Pope Benedict XVI was certain to be the highlight of the World Youth Day celebrations that have brought 225,000 of them together in Australia's biggest city.

"Most of all, we come to see the Holy Father," said Pune-born Tushar Acetush, 28, one of 600 pilgrims from India. "Friends who were in Cologne [the 2005 German host city] said that it was what touched them the most."

Rose Cairns-Morrison, 17, one of 4,500 pilgrims from New Zealand, said getting a glimpse of the 81-year-old pontiff was tops. "People who go to Rome sometimes don't get to see him, but we are certain to see him here," she said.

Sydney - Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to Australia got off to a slow start Monday with quality time spent with a grand piano and a clutch of kittens.

The 81-year-old pope, famously fond of music and cats, arrived in Sydney on Sunday ahead of this week's World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations that have drawn around
125,000 pilgrims from abroad.

The German-born pontiff's first three days in Australia are his own, to be spent in rest and relaxation at a rural retreat on Sydney's outskirts following a 23-hour flight from Rome.

"We wanted to make it a genuine house of welcome for the Holy Father and to make it a place where he can really recharge his batteries after the longest flight he's ever done," said WYD head Danny Casey.

Melbourne, July 13 : It seems women in Australia are one career-oriented lot, for according to a new research an increasing number of professional women Down Under are putting their careers ahead o