Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) announced that it would be funding the NSW Bike Plan 2010 and that Penrith City Council has finally approved of starting the work.

The Bike Week would take place during the time between the 18th of September and the 3rd of October, boosting the reputation of bicycles as a means of transportation that is healthy, safe, cheap and environment friendly. This makes the bicycles the best alternative during times like financial crisis, rise in the number of road accidents, increase in obesity rate and emergence of environment catastrophes.

After working for less than a year at Cairns Private Hospital and for more than 19 years in the medical care system of the UK, Cardiologist Roger Chatoor received a warning from the Department of Immigration that he would be deported out of the country any time.

Jessica Vega has been accused of pretending that she is suffering from cancer and will soon die. Her main motive behind this was to get wedding-day free gifts.

Jessica married Michael O’Connell in May and got separated from her husband within few months.

In February, she came to know that she was suffering from terminal leukemia.

Her husband told everyone that Jessica drew sympathy by telling people about her illness and bullied them to get free honeymoon package, wedding dress, and wedding bands.

Australian researchers at Flinders University carried out a new study showing that 25% of the mothers in Australia give their babies a taste of the food high in fats, salt and sugar even before their babies reach their first year.

Professor Jane Scott, the lead researcher and the team, managed to study the situation of 587 women, on regular phone interviews for one year.

In the Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie, a couple aging around 60s was assaulted badly in a robbery attempt.

The couple resides in New South Wales and it was enjoying their trip to Western Australia. On Wednesday, they took the train to Kalgoorlie, as told by the Police.

A man attacked the couple, when it was roaming around Kalgoorlie to view it and halted at its renowned statue of Paddy Hannan, a gold prospector. The man came from the back and seized the handbag of woman, which she was reluctant to hand over.

The study carried out by researchers at the University of Bradford has discovered that only washing hands don’t relieve it of bacteria, unless they are dried up. The findings appeared in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.

The researchers found that the hands should be properly dried after washing to mitigate the risk of the spread of bacteria. They observed distinct ways of drying hands and studied the risk associated with them in spreading bacteria.

Last night, a protest meeting was conducted by two hundred landholders in Charters Towers against the State Government for introducing certain regulations.

The landholders, including Graziers and canefarmers of North Queensland, are in fury over the State Government rule that makes mandatory to have "environmental risk management plans" in place by September 30, otherwise they will be considered as violators of the law.

The landholders have more than 2,000 hectares of land and cane farmers possess more than 70 hectares.

According to a study published by the Journal of Clinical Oncology over the internet, the genetic signature of a patient can help doctors in ascertaining whether a patient would be at a high risk of recurrence of cancer or at a low risk.

The new findings will help the doctors in ascertaining whether a patient who has undergone surgery should continue with chemotherapy or not.

The study has come as a continuous research by the NCIC Clinical Trial Group’s study known as JBR.10, which was undertaken in coordination with the U.S National Cancer Institute.

A Cranebrook couple wants to make their Labrador pup a Guide Dog and will be sending her to Guide Dogs Centre to inculcate guide’s traits in her that would help a blind or visually impaired person.

Heidi, the future Guide Dog, is owned by Sandra and Bob Jensen, who are Puppy Raisers. The dog is just six months old presently and would be sent to the Guide Dogs Centre after a year. She will be kept under training for two years.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) expressed that if health organizations in the Northern Territory want to pursue with the upgradation of the health care activities in indigenous Australia, they require the support from federal parliament.

Britain’s Business Secretary Vince Cable confirmed that the coalition government has plans to slash science funding; however, he didn’t indicate the size of the potential cuts.

In his first speech on science at Queen Mary University, London, Mr. Cable said scientific performance should not be estimated by the financial aid given by the government.

Addressing an audience of senior scientists, Mr. Cable said, “Money is important both for the quantity and quality. But it is an input, not an output, measure. The question I have to address is can we achieve more with less."

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has finally announced the price and release date for its much-awaited N8 smartphone.

The N8 smartphone will be released on October 1 through a number of retailers and network providers including Carphone Warehouse, Phones4u, Tesco Phone Shops, Orange, Three Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone and O2.

Nokia Online Shop will start offering the handset from the last week of September.

The N8 will be available from £35 per month on contracts, while the SIM free handset will cost £429.

On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that there is a dearth of life-saving medical equipment in developing nations.

The agency has dubbed the whole distribution system as 'unfair'. According to a WHO study, in the year 2008, medical device sales all over the world fetched 210 billion dollars in earnings.

The study was unveiled by the WHO, in a forum in Bangkok of Asian health professionals, which the UN agency had called to talk about that how developing nations can get their hands-on to these devices.

All the people, including blacks and high-status Cantabrians, are engaged in the process of guiding the victims of the earthquake to places where they can get help.

These heroes are telling people how to cope with trauma and stress. Their messages show the victims that how they can seek help by referring them to Government helpline, website or their GP.

Health Minister Tony Ryall remarked that it is applauding that some of the brave men from New Zealand are offering support to the earthquake-affected people in this hard time.

It is quite normal that when a person comes face to face with nature’s fury, one tends to be jolted to the core, which affects one’s psychological set up in a certain way, varying from mild to severe.

Talking of the outcome of Saturday’s earthquake, Christchurch Clinical Psychologist, FRAN VERTUE gives her viewpoint upon the level of psychological toll that the instance has taken and suggests ways to cope up with the same.

The past weekend’s instance shook up almost all in Christchurch and the range of earthquake’s effect has been different on all individuals.