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2nd tourist in 24hrs suffers irukandji sting

April 21, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Two tourists have been stung by jellyfish in Broome within the past 24 hours.

The first occurred on a charter boat off Entrance Point on Sunday, with a second tourist stung while swimming between the flags at Cable Beach yesterday afternoon.

Irukandji stings are potentially fatal and more common during the wet season, although they have been known to occur through to late May.

Beach inspector Tim Trew says it is the first recorded sting at Cable Beach in about a year.

“Most people were pretty good – we set off the evacuation alarm on the beach and everyone came out of the water, so that was really good,” he said.

“Before we reopen the beach we’ll do a stinger net to see if there are any more irukandji in the water.

“If that comes up clear then we’ll reopen the beach for swimming.”

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Dolphin survivors still on the radar

April 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Tasmania’s wildlife authorities say they are not sure how many dolphins remain in a north-west river, after mass deaths on the weekend.

More than 30 bottle-nose dolphins from a pod of 50 died after beaching themselves on the banks of the Pieman River on Sunday.

Widlife officers returned 12 survivors to the water overnight and four of the mammals swam out to sea.

Another was found dead this morning.

Tests on the dolphin carcasses today have ruled out toxins as the cause of death.

The Parks and Wildlife Service says the dolphins still swimming in the river appear healthy.

They will be monitored again tomorrow.

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Man to face court on murder charge

March 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A 67-year-old man is due in court today charged with the murder of a woman east of Brisbane.

The 68-year-old woman’s body was found in her Wellington Point home yesterday morning.

The man was found swimming out to sea off Wellington Point Reserve a short time later.

He was arrested by Water Police and is due in the Cleveland Magistrates Court today.

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Stephanie Rice finally celebrating birthday with a bang today

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Sep 19 (ANI): Australian swimming beauty Stephanie Rice is all set to celebrate her 21st birthday today-almost two months after her actual birthday-in a grand bash.

The Olympic star had to postpone festivities because of the world champ meet in Rome in July.

But, today, she will start her birthday celebrations at the Marriot Hotel, and roam across town with her gang in a giant luxury Hummer.

The party will swing over to Portside at Hamilton, where she will be cutting her birthday cake, reports the Courier Mail.

The swimmer celebrated her real birthday with a single piece of cake at a family do back on June 17.

According to reports, Rice has sold the rights to cover the bash to New Idea magazine. (ANI)

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Broad not keen on taking Flintoff’s place in Test team

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 8 (ANI): England’s Ashes hero Stuart Broad doesn’t want to replicate all rounder Andrew Flintoff in his life and is not even that keen on taking Flintoff’s place at No.7 in the Test team.

“No one can replace Fred. It is important that I focus on my qualities and don’t try to be someone I’m not,” Broad said.

Despite scoring five fifties in his 22-Test career, two of them in the Ashes, and having a respectable batting average of 31, Broad plays down that side of his game.

“My aim is to become a good No 8. If the top six build a platform that allows me and Graeme Swann to come and play with freedom as we did at the Oval. I just want to be awkward to bowl at,” The Times quoted Broad, as saying.

Flintoff has said that Broad’s batting is good enough to play as a specialist batsman and Geoff Boycott, praising the straight play of Broad, compared him to a young Garry Sobers, saying that Broad could make the same journey as Sobers from tailender.

“I don’t think I can average 40 in Test cricket. That’s a huge ask, even for recognised batsmen,” Broad said.

The modest Nottinghamshire all-rounder really wants is to spend a night in his own bed and maybe hang a shelf or two.

“I bought a house six months ago and I’ve only spent about 20 nights there. When we have finished with these one-day games and the Champions Trophy, all I’m looking forward to is 2-3 weeks at home and a bit of decorating before we go to South Africa.”

Andrew Flintoff is reportedly having six feet mosaics of the Ashes urn installed in the swimming pools, but Broad’s ambition extends no farther than getting house painted.

Nor does he plan to decorate his body, Flintoff-style. “My mum would never let me in the house again if I had a tattoo,” he said. (ANI)

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Scientists identify bacterial strains that can clear algal toxins from drinking water

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 7 (ANI): Researchers at Robert Gordon’s University, Aberdeen, have identified novel bacterial strains capable of neutralizing toxins produced by blue-green algae in drinking water.

Blooms of blue green algae (cyanobacteria) are found in both fresh and salt water throughout the world.

They produce toxins called microcystins which are released into the water and are easily ingested by animals and humans by drinking, swimming or bathing in contaminated water.

Once in the body, the toxins attack liver cells causing acute and chronic poisoning.

Conventional methods for water treatment such as sedimentation, sand filtration, flocculation and chlorination do not remove microcystins.

The researchers at Robert Gordon’s University have identified more than ten bacterial strains capable of metabolizing microcystins, breaking them down into harmless non-toxic materials.

The bacteria, Arthrobacter sp, Brevibacterium sp and Rhodococcus sp were able to break down six commonly occurring microcystins.

Six of the strains were incubated in river water with variants of the toxin to simulate natural conditions. All six strains were able to degrade the microcystins.

“The costs of advanced water purification strategies are beyond most of the world’s population,” said Aakash Welgama, from Robert Gordon’s University.

“Using bacteria to remove microcystins from water provides a reliable, cost-effective purification system, which does not involve any use of harmful chemicals or any other substances harmful to the environment,” he added. (ANI)

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Bikini clad teen claims Yeti spied on her swimming in stream!

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 1 (ANI): A terrified teen has laid claims to being spied upon by a Yeti as she was swimming in her bikini in a remote stream.

Justyna Folger, 19, who was taking a dip in the stream, noticed the hulking ape-like beast in Poland’s Tatra mountains, where there has been a spate of Bigfoot sightings in the past week.

“At first I thought it was a bear but then it raised itself on to two legs and ran off. I couldn’t believe it,” the Sun quoted her as saying.

National Park officials are investigating into the matter. (ANI)

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Robin Williams shaves body hair for ‘The World’s Greatest Dad’

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 31 (ANI): Actor Robin Williams has shaved his body hair for a particular scene in his new film ‘The World’s Greatest Dad’.

The comedian suffered embarrassment in 1991, when he was compared to a Yeti after stripping in the movie ‘The Fisher King’.

However, the ‘Flubber’ star is candid about his new role, which demanded him to briefly bare all to jump into a swimming pool.

“I shaved because if you don’t, it’s like animal rights issues,” the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

Recollecting his earlier film he added: “I did a nude scene in The Fisher King; it was Central Park, I was a homeless guy, so I was covered in dirt and really hairy and it was like, ‘Is that Bigfoot?’” (ANI)

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Freediver swims through longest Oz ocean cave in record 2minutes 40secs

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 25 (ANI): A freediver has set a new world record by swimming through Australia’s longest underwater cave.

Mike Wells swam almost 400ft to create a new record.

And it took him two minutes and 40 seconds to master Fish Rock Cave, off New South Wales.

Wells, the first man to do this, said that it was a difficult task to complete.

“It was very hard. But I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, literally,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

He had reportedly tried similar feat twice earlier on the cave, which is 85ft below the surface, but had to pull out due to cramp. (ANI)

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Cher cuts mansion’s price by $4M to find a buyer

July 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 15 (ANI): Veteran singer Cher is so desperate to sell her Malibu mansion that she has slashed 4 million dollars off the asking price.

The 14,000 square foot mansion has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a tennis court, private cinema, and swimming pool, reports Contactmusic.

The estate was originally priced at 45 million dollars, but the Believe hitmaker has now reduced it to 41 million dollars to help find a willing buyer.

Meanwhile, the legendary singer is asking her daughter Chastity Bono not to film her sex change surgery for reality TV.

Bono, now known as Chaz, announced he was gay in 1995.

The 40-year-old began the lengthy gender reassignment process last year (08) and friends and family have already started referring to her as a “he”. (ANI)

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Meet the Brit girl who can run and swim after ‘heart transplant was reversed’

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 14 (ANI): In a world’s first recovery of its kind, a Brit girl who had her heart transplant operation reversed after her own heart was deemed fit is now healthy enough to play, swim, and run.

Hannah Clark, 16, from Mountain Ash, in South Wales, underwent the innovative surgery as a two year-old, “piggybacking” a new organ onto her own, failing, heart.

The transplanted heart was on top of her own heart to add extra support.

But, after 10 years, she began to have small cancer tumours because of the immuno-suppressant drugs necessary to prevent her heart rejecting the transplant.

Thus, the surgeons decided to detach the transplanted heart, hoping that the original organ might have redeemed itself.

And now, three years later, the teenager has just sat her GCSEs, enjoys swimming and running and has even started a part-time job in a kennel-all of which would have been impossible before her transplant was reversed.

Speaking at an emotionally charged press conference in London, Hannah said that the lesson she had learnt was “just never give up”.

“I would not be here but for the surgeons who operated on me and for the donor, and I would like to thank them,” the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

Her surgeon, Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub, from Imperial College London, described the operation to reverse the heart transplant as “unique”. (ANI)

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Pak women become cautious after a legislator steals credit cards to buy jewellery

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, July 14 (ANI): Women from all strata of Pakistani society have become cautious after a woman legislator belonging to PML-N Shumaila Rana allegedly stole credit cards and bought jewellery and clothes worth Rs 80,000 with it.

Police sources said the three PPC sections 420, 468 and 471 were added to the case of MPA Shumaila Rana for committing fraud and cheating the complainant woman.

Earlier, the case was registered against the accused MPA only under section 379 of PPC. he police investigators found fake signatures of the MPA on the receipt she received from a jewellery shop after purchasing jewellery on the stolen credit cards, the sources said.

Women visiting different health clubs, beauty parlours and gyms have demanded provision of separate lockers for the safety of their stuff, the Daily Times reported.

Zaib, a swimming pool and gym in-charge at a local club in Gulberg told Aaj Kal that Shumaila had committed a shameful act.

She accused the media of blowing the incident out of proportion and hence casting a bad impression on the viewers abroad.

Zaib said after the incident, women coming to the health club had become suspicious of fellow visitors.

She said most of the women coming to such clubs were well off and carried jewellery, cash and ATM cards in their bags.

Previously, the members would put away their stuff without any fear, but now they had become very cautious and demanded separate lockers, Zaib said.

“We will have to fulfil this genuine demand of our members in a next couple of days,” she added. (ANI)

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Animal lover Hayden Panettiere shows swimming pics with dolphin

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 8 (ANI): Hayden Panettiere gave a glimpse of her love for animals when she recently showed her pictures while swimming with dolphins.

The 19-year-old beauty showed off snaps of herself snorkelling with the mammals off the Bahamas to David Letterman on his ‘Late Show’.

The ‘Heroes’ star has won awards from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for protesting against the slaughter of dolphins by Japanese fishermen.

Hayden, who plays Claire Bennet in the series, is all set to feature in a documentary about dolphins. (ANI)

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MI6 chief’s beach pics on Facebook ‘no state secret’, says UK Foreign Secretary

July 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 6 (ANI): Reacting on the headlines grabbed by new MI6 head Sir John Sawers’ photographs, which appeared on Facebook, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that it is “not a state secret” that the spy chief wears Speedos.

John’s wife Shelley Sawers had posted beach photos of her husband on facebook site the day after he was appointment head of MI6.

Information on her profile revealed the couple’s friendships with actors Moir Leslie and Alister Cameron.

According to The Mail, Shelley had disclosed details on Facebook, including the location of the London flat used by the couple and the whereabouts of their three children and of Sir John’s parents.

Senior politicians said that the security lapse raised concerns about John’s ability to take up his post as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service this November, giving him responsibility for Britain’s overseas spying operations.

However, while talking on BBC1′s Andrew Marr Show, Miliband dismissed allegations of recklessness and asked people to “grow up”.

He said that John was an “outstanding professional”, and denied that the details on the social networking website, which have since been removed, would compromise his career.

“What are you leading the news with that… The fact that there’s a picture that the head of the MI6 goes swimming. Wow that really is exciting,” the Telegraph quoted Miliband as saying.

“It is not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks, for goodness sake let’s grow up.

“This allegation that there’s great secrets and then you find out it’s about his swimming trunks and the fact that his family’s getting dragged into it.

“He was appointed 10 days ago to be the head of MI6; he’s an outstanding professional who will do a really good job in an outstanding organisation that does a huge amount for this country.

“The newspapers have gone on to Facebook and got pictures of him in his swimming trunks – the fact that you’re leading on it when we’ve got Iran, Afghanistan and the other issues,’ he added.

Sir John Major, the former Conservative Prime Minister, said that the issue had been “overblown”. (ANI)

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Sports Minister inaugurates synthetic hockey surface in Sonepat

July 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sonepat, July 5 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. Manohar Singh Gill, today inaugurated the newly laid synthetic hockey surface at Sports Authority of India (SAI), northern regional centre at Bahalgarh in Sonepat.

The new hockey surface will be used during national coaching camps for training the elite hockey players as well as various trainees of SAI training centre.

In addition to this, new hockey surface, SAI northern regional centre, has two hostels with 180 beds capacity, one multi-purpose hall, wrestling, kabaddi and boxing facilities, techno-gymn, sauna bath, football, volleyball and basketball courts.

The regional centre is currently imparting training to 1561 trainees of international and national level in its various centres like Hissar, Bhiwani and Kurukshetra. It is a training hub for holding national coaching camp of wrestling for men for the Commonwealth Games. resently, 88 Commonwealth probables for wrestling in Greeco Roman and Free Style are being trained in the centre.

SAI is in the process of upgrading sports infrastructure and other facilities in its various training centres throughout the country.

In the next one year, four synthetic hockey surfaces, five synthetic athletic tracks and three hostels with a total capacity of 250 beds will be ready for use at various SAI centres.

In addition to this, SAI will also operationalise its training centre at Hazaribagh in Jharkhand with facilities for five disciplines.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is implementing a special scheme for training of Commonwealth probable.

Under the Scheme, SAI is presently running 18 camps in all the disciplines of Commonwealth Games at Bangalore, Kolkata, Patiala, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Pune, Guwahati and Delhi.

A total number of 1180 probables for Commonwealth Games are being trained in these camps.

Four additional camps for training of para-sports persons in the disciplines of swimming, athletics, table tennis and power lifting will be starting shortly. (ANI)

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Men, too, feel anxious to strip off on the beach

July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 3 (ANI): It’s not just the women who worry about body image and are reluctant to bare it all, for men too feel uncool about stripping off, according to researchers.

The survey by Tescodiets.com revealed that almost 50 percent men worry about baring their stomachs on the beach.

In fact, one in three men have considered avoiding a beach holiday altogether because of how they look in their swimming trunks.

Seven in 10 men surveyed were worried about baring their bodies, 47 percent were most cautious about revealing their stomachs.

More than 2,000 men were questioned for the survey, out of which, almost 75 percent thought that British men get just as nervous as women, when it comes to slipping on the swimwear.

The boys resort to many tactics to cover up in the heat-nearly a quarter wear shorts or a T-shirt even in the sea, 40 percent diet and around one third strip off only when in the water.

Over three-quarters of men were jealous of toned, athletic men they spotted on the beach.

One third of men said that they were most worried about how they looked to the opposite sex, as compared to just 13 percent who worried about what other men would think.

“Every summer we hear plenty about women dreading having to wear a swimsuit but men clearly have many of the same issues,” Sky News quoted Catherine Ambrozewicz, head of Tescodiets.com, as saying. (ANI)

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Physically challenged swimmers practice hard ahead of Commonwealth Games

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Bhopal, June 27 (ANI): A 12-member team of physically challenged swimmers is practising hard in the recently organised swimming camp here ahead of Commonwealth Games 2010.

The second coaching camp for the physically challenged swimmers was jointly organised by the National Paralympic Association and National Paralympic Committee.

BK Dabas, Coach of National Paralympic Association, said that the camp was organised keeping in view the Commonwealth Games 2010.

“The camp which we are running is keeping in view the Commonwealth Games 2010 twelve swimmers are taking part in this camp,” said Dabas.

Meanwhile Ramvaran Pal, nationally and internationally renowned swimmer, said that the preparations were in full swing.

“I have participated in both national and international competitions and I have been selected for the team which is going to participate in Commonwealth Games 2010 to be held in Delhi. The preparation is on in full swing in the camp for the games,” said Pal.

The third coaching camp for the physically challenged swimmers will begin in Chandigarh from July 21. (ANI)

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Darwin’s tradies slam backpackers for making perv remark

June 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Jun 24 (ANI): After being accused of being pervs, workers at the Darwin Waterfront development have shot back with accusations that topless European backpackers deliberately try to grab their attention.

They say that they are being distracted from their work by the backpackers who favour the Waterfront’s new safe swimming beach and recreational lagoon opened in April.

According to them, their progress on the building site has slowed down ever since the public place became a hangout for the scantily clad Europeans.

After British backpacker Penelope Smith, 19, reported that more than a dozen workers stood around and perved on her while she was sunbaking topless, the workers shot back with the attention grabbing answer.

“They ask for it. They come and sit right in front of where the tradies are. They do it topless too – how do they get away with that?” the Northern Territory News quoted a worker as saying.

The worker said that it was a bit rough for the backpackers to complain about being perved on when they were obviously playing up for the crowd.

“They can sunbake anywhere they want but they go right under where all the building is going on,” he said.

“They love it, mate … love it,” he added.

Last week Smith said that she was embarrassed by the tradies watching her as she sunbathed.

“When they have a cigarette break, they all stand around and watch,” she said.

“My friends say it is a compliment – but I am not the type to play it up. But I did look to see if any of them were cute,” she added. (ANI)

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‘Angry’ Kate Moss ‘drowns boyfriend’s new songs in swimming pool’

June 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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London, June 22 (ANI): Kate Moss reportedly hurled her rocker boyfriend Jamie Hince’s laptop, which contained new songs of his band The Kills, into the swimming pool during a spat./pp
The couple were said to have been spending a romantic weekend together when the fight took place. /pp
The supermodel allegedly ended up throwing Jamie’s manbag into the pool, leaving him to leap into the water in a vain attempt to recover his non backed up tunes./pp
Kate and Jamie were having a romantic weekend in her countryside pad when things spiralled out of control, the Mirror quoted a source as saying. /pp
They started bickering out of nowhere and the row quickly escalated. She stalked off outside and, before he had a chance to react, Kate grabbed his bag and hurled it into the pool. Unfortunately it contained his laptop, BlackBerry and personal diary./pp
Jamie was speechless. He waded into the water to fish the bag out, and tried to resuscitate the laptop – removing the hard drive and shoving it into an airing cupboard./pp
He whacked the BlackBerry under the hairdryer and left his diary out to dry over a radiator, the source added./pp
The source continued: Jamie was absolutely livid and kept yelling, ‘Why would you do such a f*****g stupid thing?! You’re acting like a fishwife!’/pp
But apparently the pair made up after the row, for the source added: After much grovelling from Kate, they kissed and made up – and even saw the funny side of it. Kate’s buying him a new computer. (ANI)/p

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‘Credit-crunched Britney puts Beverly Hills pad for sale at cut-price fee’

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 20 (ANI): Recession has not even spared Britney Spears. The singer has reportedly put her house on the market for less than she bought it for.

Back in 2007, the Toxic hitmaker had paid 4million pounds for the Beverly Hills pad, reports The Sun.

After a bid to sell it for almost 1million pounds more in 2008, then another go that same year, she’s now reduced the asking price to 100,000 pounds under the original value and is expecting an offer well below that, according to sources.

The “exquisite gated Italian Renaissance inspired villa” has six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a maid’s quarter, library, swimming pool and lots more in its “7,500 square feet of luxury”.

The listing is held by Tomer Fridman at Ewing Sothebys. (ANI)

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