Hi, I'm Nancy. I'm from Australia. Today is Tuesday. I clean my house. I open a box. There are books in the box. I take out these books. I put them on the bookshelf. I open another box. There are plates in the box. I take out the plates and I put them in the kitchen cabinet.

"If you had a dollar," quizzed the teacher, "and you asked your father for another dollar and fifty cents, how much money would you have?"

"One dollar." answered little Johnny.

"You don't know your basic math." said the teacher shaking her head, disappointed.

Little Johnny shook his head too, "You don't know my daddy.

The Christmas star - said to be similar to the one that led the three wise men to the nativity scene - will be visible in the sky tonight, astronomers say.

Saturn and Jupiter will come the closest they have done in hundreds of years, creating what the researcher described as a "spectacular event in the sky".

They will appear in the sky tonight, which also the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.

While conjunctions - where objects appear very close to each other in the sky - are not rare, this will be an "exceptionally close" one - the closest since 1623, Professor Michael Burton said.

The two biggest planets in the solar system will be just 0.1 degrees apart, one-fifth the diameter of the full moon, and appear together as the brightest object in the sky, the director of the longest-running astronomical observatory in the British Isles said.