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  • Sri Lanka seal Champions Trophy semifinal berth

    Sri Lanka edged Australia by 20 runs and in the process booked their seat in the semifinals of the Champions Trophy at the Kennington Oval here Monday. England tied on four points with Sri Lanka top Group A, due to a better run-rate, and will play South Africa Wednesday in the first semifinal here. Sri Lanka will take on India at Cardiff in the second semifinal Thursday. Mahela Jayawardene ...

  • Sri Lanka score 2538 against Australia

    Sri Lanka scored 253 for eight against Australia in a crucial Champions Trophy Group A encounter at the Kennington Oval here Monday. Mahela Jayawardene top scored with an unbeaten 84 off 81 balls while Lahiru Thirimanne chipped in with a patient 57. Mitchell Johnson was the pick of the bowlers taking three for ...

  • Australia temporarily bans 19 synthetic drugs

    A temporary ban has been imposed by the Australian government on the sale of 19 synthetic drugs in the wake of the death of a teenager who used a substance similar to LSD, the media reported. The 120-day ban applies to the sale and distribution of psychoactive drugs that produce effects similar to those experienced while using illegal drugs like marijuana and cocaine, allowing the state ...

  • BA Crew Climbs Sydney Harbour Bridge for Dreamflight

    A passionate British Airways crew touched down in Sydney on June 15 to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge and raise funds for the Dreamflight charity. Co-founded by retired British Airways cabin crew member Patricia Pearce MBE, Dreamflight is an incredible charity that takes seriously ill and disabled children from the UK on a life-changing holiday to Orlando, Florida, flown in a chartered ...

  • Fake collar bomber Paul Peters appeals against length of jail term

    Sydney 2000 The man who attached a fake collar bomb to the neck of a Sydney teenager is appealing against the length of his sentence.Paul Douglas Peters broke into the Pulver family's home in Mosman in August 2011 and strapped the fake bomb around the 18-year-old's neck before fleeing the house, leaving behind an extortion note.Police were so baffled by the fake bomb that they called ...


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The Wages of Fear (La Salaire de la peur) [DVD]

The Wages of Fear (La Salaire de la peur) [DVD]

Henri-Georges Clouzots existential suspense classic The Wages of Fear (La Salaire de la peur) opens in Las Piedres, a village in a poor, unnamed country somewhere in the heart of South America. It is a lost, dilapidated place of nearly suffocating heat where naked chi ... ...

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  • The Labor nominee for the seat vacated by Craig Thomson is yet to be formally endorsed

    Gosford 2250 The only Labor nominee for the Federal seat of Dobell on the New South Wales central coast says he has not been formally endorsed yet.Lawyer and former Gosford deputy mayor, Trevor Drake is the only nominee for the position left vacant with the resignation of embattled MP Craig Thomson.Mr Thomson, currently serving as an independent, has announced he will stand in the upcoming ...

  • Episode 954 of League Behaving Badly

    Photo: Michael Carayannis Now - with a heavy heart - we look the past week in the eye. We shake our heads and ponder Episode 954 of League Behaving ...

  • Thomas Kelly death charge dropped

    Prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against the man accused of fatally punching teenager Thomas Kelly, with the 19-year-old accused instead pleading guilty to manslaughter. Kieran Loveridge formally entered a plea of guilty to one count of manslaughter in Sydney's Central Local Court on Tuesday morning. Loveridge also pleaded guilty to four other assaults in Kings Cross on the night ...

  • Fleeced as watchdog watches

    – a self-incriminating document that demonstrated the alleged consumer watchdog is earnestly whistling Dixie while ignoring 99.9 per cent of scamsters. The report received an amazingly facile level of media coverage. ...

  • I will learn from mistake Burgess

    South Sydney Rabbitohs player George Burgess has apologised for letting ‘‘my team and my family down’’ after he was charged with smashing a car window in Cairns this week. The 21-year-old has been charged with two counts of wilful damage after he allegedly threw a street sign through the rear window of a vehicle following post-match celebrations in the Cairns suburb of ...

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