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  • Australia A squad to add players from defeated Champions Trophy team

    Cricket Australia (CA) will reportedly be sending certain players from the defeated ICC Champions Trophy squad to join Australia A to maximise preparation time for the Ashes. Following a disappointing pool-round exit from the Champions Trophy, Australia will use the extra time before the opening tour match to give some players time with the A team, who completed a 93-run first-class win over ...

  • UAE Australia hold talks

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Australia have held talks over a number of issues of mutual interest and explored ways to develop bilateral relations in all sectors. The talks were held Tuesday between General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE's deputy prime minister and Roger Wilkins, the visiting Australian director of public prosecution. Other important officials were also present on ...

  • 280 new moon craters identified

    Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before. The researchers at Curtin University in Western Australia used computer modelling of lunar gravity and topography data to explore detailed basins that would be obscured using other methods, Xinhua reported. A total of 66 of the craters identified ...

  • Hughes Wade join Australia A squad

    Left-handed batsman Phil Hughes and wicket-keeper Matthew Wade will join the Australia A squad here Tuesday ahead of their final tour match against Gloucestershire beginning Friday. Skipper Michael Clarke, James Faulkner, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson and Chris Rogers will remain in London to prepare before the Ashes squad officially assembles June 24. Australia were knocked out ...

  • NRL investigates claims of racial attack on Oz rugby players wife

    The National Rugby League (NRL) of Australia has reportedly been investigating claims that spectators had racially abused the wife of a rugby player during a match last Friday. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, NRL football operations director Nathan McGuirk had confirmed that the body's integrity unit was aware of claims that the wife of Canterbury forward Frank Pritchard's wife Raima, ...


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Life

"Life" is a surprisingly sentimental comedy about two men wrongly sentenced to life at hard labor in a Mississippi state prison. It is nothing like what you would expect from a high profile vehicle starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and it is certainly not what the advertising has made it out to be. There are many humorous passages, and even a number of laugh-out-loud moments. However, the ... ...

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  • Fawad Ahmed picked for Australia A cricket tour of Africa

    Australia 's Ashes squad, has been named in the party for next month's A tour of Africa. The 31 year old claimed refuge in Australia three years ago after he fled his native Pakistan claiming he was being persecuted by the Taliban and has since gone on to forge a successful career in domestic cricket. A recent amendment to the Citizenship Act meant that Fawad would be allowed to ...

  • Australia Leading Index Suggests Above-Trend Growth

    economy in the coming quarters, a report from Westpac and Melbourne Institute showed Wednesday. The annualized growth rate of the leading index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity three to nine months into the future, was 5.4 percent in April, comfortably above its long term trend of 3 percent. The level of the index increased 1.8 points from a month earlier to 294.0 in April. ...

  • Tinkler sells down Whitehaven Coal stake

    Australia Former mining billionaire Nathan Tinkler is selling his stake in Whitehaven Coal, less than a year after abandoning a takeover bid for the company.Mr Tinkler's company announced this morning it had sold about half of its 19 per cent holding in Whitehaven to the US-based hedge fund Farrallon Capital Management.The shares were sold for $2.96 each, making the transaction worth just ...

  • ICAC to probe Ryde mayor

    Controversial Ryde Mayor Ivan Petch will be the subject of a public inquiry by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The public hearing will investigate allegations that Councillor Petch, a former Liberal turned independent, failed to disclose financial relationships and potential conflicts of interest while serving on the City of Ryde Council. Also under investigation are claims that ...

  • Controversial mayor faces ICAC inquiry

    Controversial Ryde Mayor Ivan Petch will be the subject of a public inquiry by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The public hearing will investigate allegations that Councillor Petch, a former Liberal turned independent, failed to disclose financial relationships and potential conflicts of interest while serving on the City of Ryde Council. Also under investigation are claims that ...

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