Sydney - Sydney Harbour lost a little of its twinkle Saturday as Earth Hour enthusiasts snuffed out lights to show their concern about the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.

Earth Hour is a grassroots, Australian initiative now into its third year that asks people around the world to switch off lights for 60 minutes to pressure governments to act on slowing global warming.

The Opera House and Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge clicked off at 8:30pm (0930 GMT), signalling the official start of Earth Hour.

Melbourne, March 28: Melbourne's Catholic Church has embraced a Vatican suggestion to ban gays from becoming priests.

All potential priests will have to undergo tests for sexual orientation.

Describing homosexuality as “a type of deviation”, the head of the Vatican committee recently said that celibate gays should also be banned.

James O’Farrell, an Archdiocese of Melbourne spokesman, confirmed that Carlton’s Corpus Christi Catholic seminary had started adhering to the guidelines.

Melbourne, Mar 28 : The Manor, situated in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighbourhood, has been put on the market for a whopping 150 million dollars, making it the highest asking price in America.

The French chateau-style mansion once belonged to film and television producer Aaron Spelling, and now his widow Candy Spelling has put it on the market.

The mansion has 5,248 sq m of space on more than 1.86ha, and is the largest home in Los Angeles County.

Melbourne - Jenson Button held off a challenge from Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello Saturday to take pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

The Briton posted a time of one minute 26.202 seconds for the 5.303-kilometre lap on the Albert Park circuit with Barrichello clocking 1:26.505.

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull took third place in his first race for the Austrian team in a time of 1:26.830.

Melbourne, Australia  - The next round in the fight over aerodynamics among the Formula One teams is to take place after the Australian and Malaysian grand prix.

Motorsport's ruling body FIA said Saturday that it set a hearing before its appeal board for April 14 in Paris

Melbourne, Mar 28 : South Africa captain Johan Botha has said that Mark Boucher and Albie Morkel "get paid the big bucks" as they deserve it after leading the Proteas from a shaky 5-83 to victory over Australia in the first Twenty20 international.

Morkel was player of the series in the one-day internationals against Australia in January and on Friday night in Johannesburg scored 37 off 19 balls, including four fours and two sixes, adding 58 for the sixth wicket with Boucher.