HOPES are rising that a deal may be reached within days to convince 78 Sri Lankans to end a three-week stand-off on the Oceanic Viking and disembark on Indonesian soil, according to a refugee advocate.

Today's fact Aristotle wrote Meteorologica in 350 BC and it became the standard weather text for 2000 years.

ARISTOTLE says we are all responsible for our actions and that this allows others to praise, blame or punish us.

THE author of Bumface, Aristotle's Nostril and Misery Guts put himself at the mercy of his discerning readers in Newcastle yesterday.

WHAT do Aristotle's Nostril, Once, Boy Underground and Misery Guts all have in common?