Sydney - A wall of Aboriginal rock art paintings replete with images of aeroplanes, bicycles, guns and steamships blasted open the notion that interaction between Australia's indigenous population and the rest of the world began with the British takeover and the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, scientists said Saturday.

"This rock art dismantles the popular identity of Australia being a nation first visited by the British," Griffith University archaeologist Paul Tacon said.

The panoply of 1,500 pictures, some dating back 15,000 years and the most recent done in the 1940s, detail extensive contact with Bugis traders from the Indonesian port city of Macassar in Sulawesi, now called Ujung Pandang.

Jakarta - Indonesia's stock market rose by more than 5 per cent Friday, sparked by regional rebounds following overnight gains on Wall Street and signs that US authorities might take new measures

Sydney, September 19 : Microsoft has axed American comedian Jerry Seinfeld from its 300million-dollar ad campaign to spruce up Windows Vista''s image just two weeks since the first ad aired, and roped in a host of celebrities, including author Deepak Chopra.

Actress Eva Longoria and singer Pharrell Williams are also said to have been hired for the campaign.

The company has revealed that it was always the plan that only the first two ads would feature Seinfeld, who was paid 10million dollars to be part of the campaign.

Dili - Slain East Timor rebel leader Alfredo Reinado had an Indonesian
citizenship card in his pocket when he was shot on February 11 during
an attack on the president, media reports said Wednesday.

Reinado, a former commander of the military police in Dili until he
left his post and took up arms against the state in 2006, led a handful
of rebels to the president's home in Dili, where he was shot dead by
presidential guards.

However, his men continued the shootout and 30 minutes later President
Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice as he walked toward his home.

According to the autopsy report, the card was found during the autopsy the afternoon of February 11, reported The Timor Post.

Jakarta- An undersea earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale struck early Tuesday evening off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.

The quake struck at 6:15 pm Jakarta time (1115 GMT), about 163 kilometres south-east of Dili, the capital of East Timor, according to Indonesia's National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.

The event was centred about 30 kilometres beneath the seabed but did not trigger a tsunami, the agency said.

Jakarta - Indonesian stock market plunged by 4.7 per cent Monday, sparked by falls of regional and international markets due to concerns about the US financial sector.