The release of a legal team held in Libya since a visit to slain leader Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam more than two weeks ago appears some way off despite "constructive" talks, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Sunday.

Four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff, including Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and her Lebanese interpreter Helene Assaf, have been held in Zintan since June 7 after travelling there to help prepare Seif al-Islam's defense.

Australia late Saturday ended a three-day search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off remote Christmas Island, with little hope for around 90 people still missing.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said searches of the sea north of the island had failed to find any more survivors, with the last living person found Thursday night.

Rescuers were on Saturday making a final search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off Australia's Christmas Island, with two more bodies found and little hope for around 90 people still missing.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said overnight and morning searches of the sea north of remote Christmas Island had failed to find any more survivors, with the last living person found late Thursday night.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Australia and Sweden on Friday as he spoke for the first time since turning up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London requesting political asylum.

The former computer hacker told Australia's ABC radio of his fears that he would end up in the hands of the United States, which he says want to try him for divulging American secrets.

Fears grew Friday that the death toll from a refugee boat disaster off Australia's Christmas Island could soar, as ships and aircraft scouring the seas for survivors found only more bodies.

So far 109 people have been rescued, a figure authorities revised down from 110, and three are confirmed dead after the vessel which was believed to be carrying around 200 asylum-seekers capsized in the Indian Ocean.

An asylum-seeker boat believed to be carrying 200 people capsized Thursday off remote Christmas Island with an unknown number of survivors, Australian authorities said.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said the ship issued a distress call mid-afternoon and capsized 120 nautical miles north of the Indian Ocean territory, some 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) from the Australian mainland.

Australian scientists Thursday unveiled the biggest-ever graveyard of an ancient rhino-sized mega-wombat called diprotodon, with the site potentially holding valuable clues on the species' extinction.

The remote fossil deposit in outback Queensland state is thought to contain at least 20 diprotodon skeletons including a huge specimen named Kenny, whose jawbone alone is 70 centimeters (28 inches) long.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr arrived in Libya on Monday to press for the release of an International Criminal Court team being held after meeting the son of slain strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

Carr is expected to seek the release of the ICC delegation including Australian Melinda Taylor and colleagues from Lebanon, Russia and Spain, who were detained on June 7 as they helped Seif al-Islam choose a defense lawyer.

Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan Monday urged Greece to quickly form a new government, as he hit out at Europe for failing to adequately tackle financial turmoil.

His comments come after the conservative pro-austerity New Democracy party won a knife-edge election on Sunday and its leader Antonis Samaras urged pro-euro parties to join him in a coalition.

Apple agreed Friday to a Aus$2.25 million (U.S.$2.22 million) fine for misleading Australian customers about the local 4G capability of its next-generation iPad, in a case brought by regulators.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) told the Federal Court that the U.S. tech giant had agreed to the penalty for implying in advertising that the 4G function on its latest iPad worked in Australia.