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  • Smith to lead Australia A in Africa

    Cricket Australia's (CA) National Selection Panel (NSP) Wednesday named a 15-man squad for Australia A's tour to Africa in July and August. All-rounder Steve Smith will lead the side, and right-hand bat Aaron Finch has been named as his deputy. The side will play three four-day matches against Zimbabwe and South Africa A in July before the tri-series involving South Africa A and India A in ...

  • 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 ...


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Airplane! [DVD]

Airplane! [DVD]

Having already honed and perfected their unique brand of guerilla comedy in their long-running Kentucky Fried Theater and 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie (which was directed by John Landis), it was finally time for the ZAZ team (brothers David and Jerry Zucker and their childhood friend Jim Abrahams) to make their own feature-length movie. The possibility of pulling it off seemed slim, ... ...

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  • 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, ...

  • How to survive Australia’s Metals Market Correction

    Petra Capital's Andrew Richards believes that, while Australian miners have been hard hit, the country's sector is turning a corner. An interview with The Metals ...

  • Debate shut down on referral of Greg Pearce to ICAC

    NSW The New South Wales Government has used its numbers to shut down debate on whether parliament should refer the Finance Minister Greg Pearce to the ICAC.Yesterday the Opposition Leader John Robertson leader gave notice of a motion to refer Mr Pearce to the corruption watchdog over a series of recent scandals.But this afternoon when the Opposition tried to bring on urgent debate on the issue ...

  • Brushed from bar now from court

    A Sydney journalist who sued a trendy Oxford Street nightclub for defamation, claiming it falsely and "maliciously" declared he was too drunk to enter, has lost his case in the District Court, with a judge rejecting his version of what happened and finding that his complaint was "trivial".But Richard Sleeman, a well-known sports writer and radio producer, had vowed to appeal ...

  • CBA scandal Senate demands answers

    Fairfax Special: Exposed - Planners go rogue The corporate watchdog will face a Senate inquiry into its performance that is likely to embroil the Commonwealth Bank and raise questions about the effectiveness of new financial ...

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