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  • 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 ...

  • Charles Saatchi confesses to assaulting wife Nigella Lawson in public

    Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson's billionaire husband, Charles Saatchi, has admitted that he assaulted his wife by choking her in public during a heated fight at the Scott's restaurant in Mayfair. Earlier he had described his act as merely a 'playful tiff' with no grip during a discussion where he was trying to 'emphasize' a point, the Herald Sun reported. Saatchi was interrogated for five hours ...

  • Dalai Lama promotes peace and pop in Melbourne

    The Dalai Lama promoted peace and a pop song during an event in Melbourne. The Tibetan spiritual leader also spoke at the Melbourne Convention Centre to a crowd of about 6000 devotees. Actress Magda Szubanski hosted the event and introduced a pop song in which he features. According to the Herald Sun, introducing the song, she said that it would be pretty cool to see his Holiness at number ...

  • 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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From Paris With Love

From Paris With Love

From Paris With Love comes from the same team (director Pierre Morel and producer/cowriter Luc Besson) that gave us last years surprise January hit Taken (2009), and hopes are clearly high that it will replicate that movies success in the early weeks of the n ... ...

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  • Peek-a-boo at Warnes lavish up-for-grabs 15 mln-dollar mansion

    Pictures of Australian spin legend Shane Warne's luxurious mansion, which has been reportedly put on the market for 15 million dollars, have been revealed to the public. According to Telegraph.com.au, Warne, who is believed to be heading for a luxury manor house in the English countryside, is preparing to bowl over buyers with a full-blown marketing campaign for the four-bedroom Italianate ...

  • Oz woman develops French accent after suffering head injury in car accident

    An Australian woman has developed the French accent after she met with a serious car accident, during which she suffered a broken back and jaw. Leann Rowe's ordeal began eight years ago, when she woke up in Melbourne's Austin Hospital after her accident, the Herald Sun reported. As her jaw began to heal, Rowe regained her ability to speak, but she noticed that she was slurring her words and ...

  • Oz heading into Ashes with not a great deal of confidence says Bailey

    Australia's stand-in captain George Bailey has admitted that his team is heading towards next month's Ashes series with 'not a great deal of confidence'. Bailey's statement came after the defeat by Sri Lanka that saw Australia eliminated from the ICC Champions Trophy with two defeats and a washout in Group A, all completed without the injured Michael Clarke, the Guardian reports. Stating that ...

  • Inverarity hints at positive Ashes chance for refugee Ahmed

    Australia's chairman of selectors John Inverarity has reportedly hinted that Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed could yet be called into the Ashes squad. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the chances of Ahmed featuring in the Ashes improved dramatically when a bill to amend the Citizenship Act, which will help fast-track his application, passed through Australia's lower house of ...

  • Lankans drive out Aussies out of Champions Trophy with 20-run victory

    Australia's trouble-plagued campaign of the ICC Champions Trophy had come to an end after they were defeated for 20 runs by Sri Lanka at The Oval on Monday. Sri Lanka, who needed a win to remain in the competition, rode on aggressive half-centuries from Mahela Jayawardene and Lahiru Thirimanne to score 253-8 after being sent in to bat, bowling out the Australians for 233 in 42.3 overs, ...

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