Craze "planks" Facebook claims life in Australia

BRISBANE, Australia  - a buzz new scan Internet called "planks" claimed a life in Australia Sunday and police fear the tragedy is perhaps not the last.

Decking means a person located flat on their stomach with their weapons against their body in unusual and sometimes dangerous situations with photographs of their exploits shared through social media sites.

He went viral in recent weeks with the planking Australia benefiting more from 55 000 fans Facebook page and hundreds of photos of people lying on form trails, escalators, mouths of fire, motorcycles and other objects.

Police last week warned "plankers" of hazards and their fears were carried out with the death of a man at Brisbane got a balcony seventh floors and death at the scene.

"This morning we saw a young man take this activity a little further and attempt to Board on a balcony." Unfortunately it has tragically fallen to his death, ", said the Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Ross Barnett.

The man, who was not named, and another person had been during the night and were plates in various places on the way back.

"This is what we were fearing," said Barnett, but could not say if he had died first of the Australia of the craze.

Barnett said he worried that the injury would occur because people are trying to out-do each other by increasingly more precarious planking for the final photo.

"Fear police that as decking gains popularity, there may be several injuries and potentially more death", he said, adding that it may seem fun playful but can quickly turn to tragedy.

"Accepting a risk of injury to yourself is one thing, but the potential is there for others to be injured as a result of your behaviour.".

Last week, 20 years, also in the State of Queensland, was arrested after allegedly being "planks" on a police car. He was accused of being on equipment of police without lawful excuse.

Police issued warnings of hazards at the time, but the advertising seemed only to feed the fad.

"If other people break the law in this activity, that they will be charged,"warned Barnett.""

"But no penalty will never return this young man to his family and friends." "It's a tragedy and our condolences go to the family".

Facebook tributes began immediately with the dead man.

"planker rip fellow," said a display on the page of the Australian planking.

"I didn't know him, but he was a planker as the rest of us."

Another wrote: "Stay safe dudes, plate carefully."

But not everyone was favourable.

"Seriously, people are so stupid." Get on this stupid thing plates, "said another position."

Malaysia to take 800 asylum of Australia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia will accept 800 asylum seekers who entered Australia illegally by sea in an innovative agreement between the two countries to tackle smuggling.

In return, the Australia will resettle 4,000 registered refugees living in Malaysia, according to a joint statement late Government Saturday.

The Australia has long attracted people from poor countries, often ravaged by war, in the hope of starting a new life, with more than 6 200 asylum seekers arriving in the country by boat last year. Most are Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Iran and the Iraq and uses the Indonesia or Malaysia as a starting point for a trip in the dangerous sea Australia.

"This historic agreement will help to remove product smugglers attempting to sell - a ticket to the Australia,"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a separate statement."."

"The key message that will invest in smugglers and those who seek to make the trip in the dangerous sea Australia are: get on this boat,"she said."".Under this agreement, if you arrive in Australian waters and are taken into Malaysia, you will go to the back of the queue. ?

Australia, will fully fund the arrangement, the joint statement said, adding that the pilot project aims to "undermine the model cases of transnational crime groups, especially in the smuggling and trafficking in human beings humans in this region.".

800 Persons transferred to the Malaysia will have their requests processed by the United Nations, and "those in need of international protection will not be repressed," said the statement.

The two countries will work closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees and the International Organization for migration to implementation of the agreement, which will be finalized soon, he said.

Gillard, said the Australian Government has committed in talks with Papua Guinea to build a regional detention centre y to deal with asylum seekers, and that it would be financed by the Australia. An earlier proposal to establish such a centre in the neighbouring countries of East Timor was not favoured by the Government of that country.

Since the beginning of 2010, the Australia stopped more than 140 boats carrying asylum seekers. The Malaysia also took dozens of people engage in rickety and overcrowded boats in Australia.

The increase in the number of arrivals of boat has become a source of contention issue in Australia, with the opposition demanding more stringent laws to discourage the prospective illegal immigrants.

Last battle of World War II Vet dies in Australia

 Last known World War II combat veteran was defiant time tolls, a centenary that swam in the sea, tour through the dance floors and publishes his first book at 108. He also refused to submit to its place in history, becoming a pacifist would not March in parades commemorating war like that which made him famous.

Claude Stanley Choules, a man of contradictions, humble spirit and wry humor, died in a Western Australia nursing home, on Thursday at the age of 110. And if his accomplishments were many - including a dedicated a military 41 year career that spans the two world wars - the man known as "Chuckles" of his comrades in the Australian Navy was happier to be known as a father.

"We are all loved him", his 84-year-old daughter, Daphne Edinger told Associated Press. "It will be sad to think of him is do not here long, but it is how things are going.".

Choules was born on March 3, 1901, in the British town of Pershore, Worcestershire, a family of seven children. As a child, she was told her mother had died - a lie meant to cover a painful truth: she left when he was 5 to pursue an acting career. Abandonment affected him deeply, said his daughter Anne Pow, and he grew up determined to create a happy home for her own children.

In his autobiography, "The Last of the Last" published just two years ago, he forgot the day of the first automobile led through the city, an event that brought all the villagers outside to watch. It brought when a pack of cigarettes cost a penny. He brought learning to surf to the coast of South Africa, and how strange it was that black people were forced to use a separate range of whites.

He has drawn on the water at an early age, fishing and swimming in the local brook. Later in life, he would regularly swim in the warm waters off the coasts of Western Australia State, only stopping when he turned 100.

World war raging when Choules started his training with the Royal Navy, just a month after he was 14 years old. In 1917, he joined the battleship HMS vengeance, wherever he looked at the surrender of the German high seas fleet, fleet combat of the German Navy during the war of 1918.

"No there was no sign of fight left in the Germans that they are out of the haze at around 10 hours," Choules wrote in his autobiography. The German flag, he recalled, was transported down to the sunset.

He wrote "until the end of this day the most memorable in the annals of the naval war". "A fleet of ships surrendered without drawing a fire kick".

Choules and another British, Florence Green, became last survivor service members known war on the after the death of Frank Buckles us in February, according to the order of the first world war, a group based in the United States which tracks the veterans. Choules was the last surviving veteran of the war. Green, who became the 110 in February, served as a waitress in a women's Royal Air Force.

Choules met his wife, Ethel Wildgoose, in 1926, the first day of a six weeks of England in Australia boat trip, where he was dispatched to serve as a naval instructor at the Flinders Naval Depot in the State of Victoria. Ten months later, they married. They have three children - Daphne, Anne, and Adrian, now in the 1970s and 1980s.