Muslims in Australia celebrate the end of Ramadan with Eid festival

Muslims across Australia have filled mosques and public spaces to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

The festival of Eid al-Fitr traditionally occurs with the first sighting of the new moon and brings to a close the end of a month of fasting from sunrise to sunset.

Heavy rain failed to dampen the spirit of those flowing into the Lakemba mosque in Sydney's south-west from early morning for Eid prayers.

Roads around the mosque were blocked off to allow the congregation to fill the area.

Families and children left the service with pockets filled with sweets, as is Eid custom.

Muslim families are also known to visit relatives in hospital and pay their respects to loved ones who have passed away as part of Eid celebrations

Rarbie Ziad, 22, attended the prayers and said that for him Eid was all about spending time with family.

"After this it's going to be family, so we're going to go see our family, from there we'll go to the cemetery, just visit all our past members, from there come back and have a big lunch."

Google celebrates DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday with a tribute doodle

Rosalind Franklin, a British biophysicist and x-ray crystallographer helped discover the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) but controversially missed out on the Nobel prize. Born on July 25, 1920 in Notting Hill, London, Rosalind Franklin was the second child and eldest daughter of her parents who belonged to an affluent and influential British Jewish family. Franklin's scientific work lead to X-ray diffraction images of DNA which resulted in the discovery of the DNA double helix.

DNA plays an important part in cell metabolism and genetics. The discovery of its structure helped Franklin's co-workers understand how genetic information is passed from parents to children. This has today helped medical science make a lot of progress. Besides this Franklin's studies also helped in the understanding of the molecular structures of RNA, viruses, coal and graphite. In April 1958, at the age of 37, the biophysicist died of ovarian cancer. Franlin worked at King's College London under Maurice Wilkins as she conducted her DNA research. Wilkins with his friends Francis Crick and James Watson were awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1962 for their DNA study. Crick later acknowledged that the trio used Franklin's images and they were "the data we actually used" to formulate the hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA.

The Google doodle today has the second 'O' of Google containing Rosalind Franklin's image, while the 'L' has been replaced with the DNA double helix.