A 42-year-old man from New South Wales, Australia lost a part of his finger in a bar brawl and walked out of the pub and down the street unaware of it. He did not realize that something was amiss until he saw blood dripping down.

Police Inspector Mark Kellert told The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, "He was out on the street and realized there was blood on his hand, noticed his finger was missing, and went to hospital."

Lincoln Ryman and his brother Byron may be the same age, but they are definitely not the same size.

Twins Lincoln and Byron were born in Sydney on May 15 just minutes apart. However, Byron weighed in at 3.39 pounds (1.54 kilograms), while Lincoln was a tiny 1.17 pounds (530 grams).

Chasing his "amazing dream," 58-year-old Miles Hilton-Barber has set a world record as the first blind person to fly halfway across the world. Hilton-Barber, who lost his eyesight about 20 years ago, had voice-output technology installed on all the navigational devices on his microlight aircraft so he could complete the 13,500-mile flight from London to Sydney.

Hilton-Barber, accompanied by his sighted co-pilot Storm Smith, took off in the two-seater microlight aircraft from Biggin Hill air base in south London on March 7.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is to receive a new royal carriage as a gift from an Australian monarchist. Jim Frecklington, who lives in Sydney, has spent years and re-mortgaged his home to build the new State Coach Britannia.

The carriage - which cost an estimated $1.23 million to build with some of the costs being covered by the Australian government - will be flown into Britain and given as a gift to the queen.

An Australian man, drunk on vodka, caught a shark with his bare hands while fishing off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, about 870 miles west of Sydney.

Phillip Kerkhof caught a 1.3-meter (4-ft.) bronze whaler shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach on Friday while it was swimming in shallow waters.