Spain witnessed violence in Catalonia as controversial referendum was held. Local media reports suggest that nearly 40 percent of Catalans voted for independence.

A group of divers off the Coffs Harbour spotted a massive male swamp wallaby and helped resuce the animal when they discovered that it was distressed.

The 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) - which concluded in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, February 28 - witnessed quite a few Chinese device makers, including Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corp and Lenovo Group, making a highly noteworthy impression.

In a highly noteworthy move which will pave the way for travellers across East Asia to use their mobile handsets for travel as well as payments, common standards for touch-card technology have recently been agreed upon by three bigwig mobile operators in China, Japan, and Korea.