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  • Childs IQ linked to early weight gain

    A new research in Australia has suggested how much weight a baby gains during its first month could determine its intelligence quotient (IQ). After studying 13,800 children born at full-term, researchers at the University of Adelaide, said children who gain more weight, and whose heads grow quickly, during the first month of life tend to have a higher IQ when they start school, Daily Mail ...

  • Channel Nine wants greater say in Oz team selection despite CA stance

    Fresh tensions have erupted between Cricket Australia (CA) and Channel Nine after a leading Nine executive reportedly said that the network expected to have a greater say not only in scheduling but also in team selection. This comes after CA rejected suggestions that Channel Nine would influence team selection and scheduling as part of its new 450 million-dollar deal on TV rights. According to ...

  • 80 Sri Lankans held while trying to migrate to Australia

    At least 80 Sri Lankans were detained by the navy Wednesday for attempting to illegally migrate to Australia, the navy said. The trawler in which the detainees were travelling was intercepted by the navy. They were handed over to police for investigation, Xinhua reported. On May 30, as many as 52 Sri Lankans were detained, and later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department. The ...

  • Australian charged in attack on Indian restaurateur

    Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurateur earlier this month. The 19-year-old man handed himself in to the police in connection with the attack on Himanshu Goyal, 22, while he was closing his restaurant in Bridge Mall at Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria June 7, according to media reports. The eight ...

  • Sri Lanka calls for Tamil refugees in Australia to return

    Sri Lankan external affairs minister has asked the Tamil refugees in Australia who fled the nation's bloody civil war to come home. The Tamils had quietly slipped into Canberra for talks on combating people smugglers. According to the Age, G.L. Peiris said Sri Lanka was now in a perfectly stable condition, with an economic boom in the once devastated northern Tamil regions. He, however, ...


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Persona

Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" is one of the rare films that is acutely aware of itself as a film. It opens with the lighting of a film projector lamp, the film itself running through the spools, then a series of disjointed, fragmented images, including a spider, a short animated sequence, and a spike being driven through a man's hand. The film then cuts to a surrealistic shot of a boy, sitting in a m ... ...

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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 ...

  • China beats Australia in basketball friendly

    Shanxi province - Chinese women's basketball team resisted the challenge from their Australian counterpart to hold off the latter 69-64 in Game 1 of Sino- Australian Women's International Basketball Challenge here on Wednesday. About 2,000 fans crowded into Wuyang Coal Mine Sports Center to support Chinese girls. After almost-one-month training ...

  • Cricket Australia to overhaul player behaviour code

    Australia Cricket Australia (CA) will reform its code of behaviour and integrity processes after a review by former AFL policy-maker Adrian Anderson.Anderson, the ex-AFL football operations manager, was hired by CA to review how the sport dealt with issues such as player discipline and anti-corruption.Several recommendations for reform were broadly outlined by CA chief James Sutherland on ...

  • Princess Mary to visit Australia for Opera House anniversary

    Sydney 2000 Denmark's Crown Princess Mary has been enticed back to her homeland along with her husband Crown Prince Frederik to mark the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. NSW Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner announced the couple would be the patrons of the celebrations in October.Their role is a nod to the late Danish architect Jorn Utzon, who designed Australia's most famous ...

  • A-League All Star team to face Manchester United full of Mariners Wanderers

    Sydney 2000 Eight of the combatants from last season's decider will suit up for the A-League All Stars in their blockbuster against Manchester United in Sydney on July 20.The FFA on Thursday afternoon released the line-up which more than 30,000 fans voted for, with supporter selections accounting for 50 per cent of the weighting.Coach Ange Postecoglou, a panel of experts and the ...

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