Australian scientists on Monday unveiled the world’s smallest electronic switch measuring just a few atoms, which will shrink microchips and revolutionise computing speeds.

An Australian woman who had gone to meet a man she befriended on social networking site Facebook has been murdered, a media report on Saturday said.

A 16-year-old Australian who spent seven months at sea in her pink yacht sailed across the finish line of her round-the-world journey on Saturday, becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted.

Sydney: An Australian physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century.