Melbourne, Oct 22 – The condition of sexsomnia, the bizarre act of having sex while asleep, could be genetic, according to evidence found by an Australian researcher. Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology at Victoria University, who studied four sexsomnics in 16 years, has found an unusual case of a father-son duo. ‘This could [...]
Melbourne, Oct 21 – After smashing a 49-ball 89 against India, all-rounder Cameron White hopes he is ready for another chance at Test cricket for Australia. ‘No doubt, I still want to play Test cricket for Australia and the best opportunity I can give myself to do that is to play well for Australia in [...]
Sydney, Oct 21 – Travelling by car increases the earth’s temperature more in the long run than covering the same distance by air, researchers say. However, in the short term, air travel has more impact on global temperatures as planes affect the short-lived warming processes at high altitudes. A team led by Jens Borken-Kleefeld of [...]
Melbourne, Oct 21 – A man who brutally hit and robbed an Indian student last year in this Australian city claimed that the assault was not racist, though during the attack, he said: ‘Shut up, you Indian mother******’. Shayne Comensoli, 20, and his friend Lennon Metaxas randomly targetted Indian student Lucky Singh, 23, in a [...]
Melbourne, Oct 21 – Indian student Nitin Garg, who was brutally stabbed to death here in January, had been threatened and chased on at least two other occasions before his death, a court was informed. Twentyone-year-old Garg was viciously stabbed when he was going to work at Hungry Jack’s restaurant in Yarraville in January. He [...]
Melbourne, Oct 20 – India’s cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar feels that Australia need a big fast bowler and a leg spinner if they are to regain the Ashes this summer. ‘They have got to get the attack right. If Peter Siddle is fit then he brings something to the team. I got the impression in [...]
Melbourne, Oct 20 – Former tennis players Patrick Rafter and Tony Roche were appointed captain and coach of the Australian Davis Cup team with the motive to guide the country back into the elite 16-nation World Group. Two-time US Open champion Rafter said he is ready for the challenge and his immediate task is to [...]
Melbourne, October 20 – Shane Warne believes the Indian cricket board is ‘playing favourites’ with influential bigger city teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL) like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi and treating low-key Rajasthan Royals and King’s XI Punjab unfairly. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspended Rajasthan Royals and King’s [...]
Melbourne, Oct 20 – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Wednesday dismissed as ‘stupid and wrong’ a trade union leader’s remarks that the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US were a conspiracy. Kevin Bracken, the secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia and Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) president, Wednesday asked for a fresh [...]
Melbourne, Oct 20 – The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) plan to use undercover agents to test the loyalty of the players has come under heavy criticism with Australian players union boss Paul Marsh saying that he was not convinced the proposal was ‘either reasonable or lawful’. Marsh, chief executive of the Australian Cricketers’ Association, said [...]
Melbourne, Oct 20 – Now the long arm of the law can reach you through the world wide web too. Australian police have shown the way by using Facebook to restrict a man from contacting his partner after he harassed her via the online social network. The Victoria Police have served an intervention order via [...]
Sydney, Oct 19 – Australian Michael Hussey has questioned the veracity of International Cricket Council’s Test rankings, saying that his team is better than the current ranking of fifth. Hussey said the rankings are not a true reflection of the Australia’s performance. Australia have slipped to an all-time low of fifth place in the ICC [...]
Sydney, Oct 19 – Discus champ Dani Samuels’ challenge to Commonwealth Games gold medallist Krishna Poonia from India to a winner-takes-all contest ‘could be enormous’, said the Australian’s manager who added that ‘it could be like a boxing match’. Samuels threw the challenge following Poonia’s pre-Games comment that the Australian’s ‘poor form’ was the actual [...]
Sydney, Oct 18 – An employee of Australia’s David Jones Ltd has won 850,000 Australian dollars ($850,000) in compensation for being sexually harassed by the department store chain’s former chief executive, the retailer said Monday. Kristy Fraser-Kirk, 27, had demanded 37 million Australian dollars but settled out of court for around the same sum David [...]
Wellington, Oct 18 – The Oceania Football Confederation is already committed to voting for Australia to host the 2022 World Cup, New Zealand Football chairman Frank van Hattum said Monday. It has not yet, however, decided who to support for the 2018 event, in which England is competing with Russia and joint-bids from Spain-Portugal and [...]
Auckland, Oct 18 – Television New Zealand received 1,500 complaints after a show host made an on-air racist comment on Indian-origin Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand and mocked the name of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. TVNZ said that it has upheld 1,500 complaints against its former Breakfast host Paul Henry. New Zealand Herald Monday [...]
Wellington, Oct 17 – Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper has defended the various comments he made during the preparations for Commonwealth Games 2010, saying he did all he could to make the mega event a success. Hooper said he should not be ousted for any perceived inaction, the New Zealand Herald reported Sunday. [...]
Melbourne, Oct 17 – A top Australian combat soldier in Afghanistan has warned that the Taliban militants cannot be defeated by military means and called for a fundamental change in strategy, a media report said Sunday. Brigadier Mark Smethurst says securing Afghanistan could take decades, but success is uncertain without a fundamental change in strategy, [...]
Sydney, Oct 17 – Former top ranked golfer Greg Norman announced Sunday he was engaged to Sydney interior designer Kirsten Kutner. Twice-married Norman told Australia’s New Idea magazine he surprised Kutner with a six-carat engagement ring. ‘One minute we were having a day-to-day conversation and the next moment, all of a sudden, everything changed, our [...]
Sydney, Oct 16 – The problems that marred the Commonwealth Games in India will act as a catalyst for major changes in the format of the Games, says one of Australia’s foremost Games experts. This is vital to allow the event to re-emerge as a stronger competition, Craig McLatchey wrote in The Australian Saturday. The [...]
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