Great Glenn McGrath, the former Australian fast bowler recently lost his wife. Now he is pleading with Sydney people to participate in a running festival, for raising funds for breast cancer research and treatment.

In 1996’ McGrath’s wife Jane, was first diagnosed with breast cancer. After her initial recovery, she noticed that during her treatment there was a shortage of breast care nurses. In 2002 McGrath and Jane founded the McGrath foundation.

Melbourne, September 13 : A strange vandal has been nicknamed the “Butt Bandit” by people in a Nebraska town because he imprints his naked behind on windows wherever he strikes.

For more than a year, the man has been skipping from one business to another at night, leaving his strange mark.

He uses some lotion and petroleum jelly for pressing his groins.

"This is the weirdest case I''ve ever seen,'''' the Daily Telegraph quoted police chief Ben McBride as saying.

Some residents of Valentine, a remote central US town of about 2,650 people, find some humour in the strange vandalism.

They, however, also cannot help but cringe when they find the vandal’s marks.

Melbourne, Sept 12: The principal of a Queensland school, where a 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a classmate, has dismissed the attack, saying that it was a "childhood experiment.”

According to the Courier-Mail, the principal has claimed that the girl was at fault by not immediately contacting her parents or police.

Now, the girls’ parents have slammed the school saying that the authorities still made their daughter to feel she was wrong and ordered back to the classroom where the attack took place - with her seven-year-old assailant sitting just three rows behind her.

Melbourne, Sept 12 : Kiwi scientists have developed a revolutionary new fabric, which is stab and flame resistant – and is as light as wool.

According to Dr Peter Ingham, a scientist at the New Zealand government-owned research group AgResearch, the new fabric is tough, could withstand a blowtorch, and has many commercial applications.

The researchers said that it was expected to do a good job protecting soldiers from flying shrapnel and could be worn by prison wardens to help protect them from possible attacks by inmates.

"It looks like a milled woollen material but it is made using a new technology,'''' News. com. au quoted him, as saying.

Melbourne, Sept 12 : Losalina Rainima, a Sydney woman, who contended that it was her "god-given" right to drive and refused to register her car, lost a Supreme Court appeal.

In 2004 she was jailed for three months after being caught driving an unregistered vehicle.

Originally she was placed on a five-year good behaviour bond but was resentenced after her refusal to sign the paperwork.

Rainima then endured the entirety of her nine-month maximum jail term, spending an additional six months behind bars because she refused to sign the conditions of her release.

Melbourne, Sept. 12 : Ian Thorpe, one of the world’s greatest swimmers, has turned college student by studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Macquarie University.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Thorpe, who dropped out of school at 14 to pursue his swimming, has taken up psychology and linguistics at the university.

The new student was at the Macquarie campus yesterday, hanging out in the coffee shop and attending his lectures and tutorials like any other undergraduate.

Dressed in a white shirt and brown shorts, Thorpe had only one star touch.

"You notice him straight away because of his big designer sunglasses," one campus spy said.