Troubled Australian batsman David Warner may have dashed his hopes of playing in the ongoing Ashes series in England after he failed in both innings of Australia A's tour match against a Zimbabwe Select XI in Harare. According to Sport24, Warner was out for 11 on Friday as he battled for 36 balls to find his rhythm against a modest home attack, after managing just six in his side's first ...
Obama was mistaken for a waiter at a book party in 2003
A member of NYC's media elite reportedly mistook Barack Obama for a waiter at a 2003 event, when he was running for US Senate, it has been revealed. With unprecedented candor, President Obama spoke about the prejudice he has faced as an African-American man - prompting Wall Street Journal reporter Katie Rosman to recall witnessing Obama being mistaken for a waiter at a Manhattan soiree 10 years ...
Agar effect drowns Pirates of the Caribbean charm in TV stakes Down Under
Teenage Australian cricket sensation Ashton Agar is being touted as the reason behind huge demand for Ashes tickets down under and an increase in TV ratings for the Ashes in the country, which have even left behind MasterChef Australia and the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. According to The Daily Telegraph, Agar's agency, Signature Sport, has been flooded with requests from media and ...
3000-year-old two-faced bronze head found in China
Archaeologists have claimed to have discovered a rare bronze head with two faces and dating back to over 3,000 years, in a tomb complex in China's Hubei province. The sculpture featuring huge eyes, protruding cheekbones and horns has been unearthed from the Yejiashan Graveyard in Suizhou city, Xinhua reported. The graveyard consists of a cluster of tombs believed to be related to the nobles ...
Torrential rain triggers urban flooding in China
Witnessing its heaviest rainfall of the year since Thursday, the Kunming city in China's Yunnan province is grappling with an urban flooding. Cars and taxis have become submerged in the city and more than 200 inundated buses have been rendered unusable. The drainage system has failed, resulting in floods in many areas of the city, Xinhua reported Friday. Water level on the nearby Panlong river ...
Suspected Poachers in Kenya Kill Two Wildlife Rangers
NAIROBI, KENYA The Kenya Wildlife Service says two wildlife rangers were killed Thursday responding to dozens of suspected poachers in the Kipini Conservatory game reserve on Kenya's coast. Officials say the suspected poachers were armed with AK-47 rifles and opened fire on several rangers who were responding to a poaching incident inside the reserve. Kenyan Wildlife Service ...
China to Lift Bank Lending Rate Controls
China is lifting some controls on bank lending rates, in a step toward a more market-oriented financial system. China's central bank said Friday it was canceling the "floor" on interest rates to be paid by borrowers, so that financial institutions can set the rates themselves. The change will go into effect on Saturday. A floor will remain for mortgage loans. The central ...
England in command as Aussie batting crumbles
Graeme Swann's fifer put hosts England on top as they bowled out Australia for 128 and took a 264-run lead on day two of the second Test at Lord's here Friday. Swann spun a web around the English batsman who looked short on ideas on how to tackle the off-spinner. Shane Watson (30) and Michael Clarke (28) were the only Aussie batsmen who put up a bit of a fight on a day when 16 wickets ...
Warne inducted in ICC Hall of Fame
Australian spin wizard Shane Warne Friday was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame during the tea interval of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia at Lorda. Warne becomes the 69th male member of the Hall of Fame and joins fellow 2012-13 inductees Brian Lara of the West Indies, England's Enid Bakewell and fellow Australian Glenn McGrath in being recognized by the ICC and the ...
Pakistani Hindus worst victims of rape US report
Hindus in Pakistan are the worst victims of rape, says a report by an independent American group. In the past 18 months, seven incidents of Hindu girls being raped were reported, says the study by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Not only this, two Hindus were killed and four injured in 16 attacks in Pakistan. Besides this, three Hindus were killed in targeted ...
Ryan Harris could have donned English colours
Australia pacer Ryan Harris could have been playing the Lord's Test wearing England's famous three lions on his chest but signed a multi-year contract with Queensland instead of playing in the country. Harris's father was born in Leicester and five years ago, Sydney-born Harris had a short county stint for Sussex and played at Lord's and took four for 36 against MCC. He had to decide whether to ...
Three dragonfly species discovered in China
Scientists have discovered three dragonfly species, indigenous to China, inhabiting the Shennongjia nature reserve, a researcher said Friday. "The three new Cephalaeschna species are found nowhere else in the world but central China," Zhang Haomiao, an aquatic animal researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying by Xinhua. He said the species can be "used" to monitor ...
taekwondo Worlds South Korea win two more golds
South Korea's Kim Yu-Jin and and Kim Tae-Hunwon won two gold medals in the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships here, consolidating their country's lead in the medals table. Kim Yu-Jin beat Croatia's Ana Zaninovic 5-4 to win the women's 53kg class Thursday, reports Xinhua. In the men's 54kg category, Kim Tae-Hun defeated Hsu Chia-Lin of Chinese Taipei with a comfortable 7-0 win and won the ...
England 114-3 against Australia in Ashes Test
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - England were 114 for three in their second innings, a lead of 347 runs, at lunch on the third day of the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord's.Joe Root was 63 not out and Tim Bresnan 32 not out at the end of Saturday's first session, with the Yorkshire duo's unbroken stand so far worth 84 runs.Ashes-holders England lead this five-match series ...
England heap more misery on Australia
England extended their lead in the second Test against Australia to 347, with Joe Root and Tim Bresnan batting through the opening session on day three at Lord's.Australia's slim hopes of mounting a comeback relied on early breakthroughs on Saturday, but none of the six bowlers used before lunch appeared to threaten Root (63 not out) and nightwatchman Bresnan (32 not out) as England ...
Intercepted Ship Highlights North Korea-Cuba Relations
The Cuban vessel, intercepted by Panama, was carrying missile parts and disassembled fighter planes to North Korea. Weekend Edition Saturday host Linda Wertheimer talks with Frank Mora, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, about the historic relationship between Cuba and North ...
The Spanish Aristocrat Who Works For North Korea
Spanish aristocrat Alejandro Cao de Benos is believed to be the only foreigner working for the North Korean government. He divides his time between North Korea and Europe, where he organizes university conferences on North Korean ideology. He's shown here with a North Korean military officer in Panmunjon, on the border with South ...
China Explosion rocks Beijing airport
The explosion reportedly occurred in Terminal 3 of the airport."There has been an explosion at Beijing International Airport's Terminal 3, with a man in a wheelchair apparently detonating a device," BBC reported.No casualty has been reported so far.More details are ...
The Ashes England v Australia ? live | Rob Bagchi and Tom Bryant
what 'old fashioned' fielding positions are," asks John Hargreaves. "TMS commentary referred a few days ago to 'old fashioned mid-off' I think it was. Our skipper once asked me to field at 'old fashioned point'. I ambled to point and tried to look old fashioned, and he didn't seem to mind." I like school-boy silly-mid - a sort of halfway between ...
China opens worlds biggest multi-pylon cable-stayed bridge - video
The world's biggest multi-pylon cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic in eastern China on Friday. The Jiaxing-Shaoxing bridge, which stretches 10km across the Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang Province, took over four years to complete. The bridge cost around 6.4bn (683m) and has now halved the three hour commute from Shaoxing to ...
Taiwans Ma reelected ruling party chief
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou was overwhelmingly reelected chairman of the ruling party Saturday, amid corruption scandals involving top officials and public anger at his ...
Loud explosion heard at Chinas Beijing airport
Chinese state media say that a man set off a homemade bomb in Terminal 3 of the Beijing International Airport, but that no one besides the man was injured and order has been restored. The official Xinhua News Agency cited witnesses in reporting that the explosion was heard at 6:24 p.m. Saturday, but gave no further details. State-run China Central Television says on its microblog that the man ...
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