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London, Sep 28(ANI): Former cricket legend Ian Botham has predicted that England would beat Australia in the battle for the Ashes with out-of-favour batsman Kevin Pietersen being one of the key trump cards. “I think England will win the Ashes and I think they might win it in a bit of style. I do think [...]

Sydney, Sep 28 (ANI): A full team security briefing at an Australian training camp in Malaysia has failed to calm some anxious Australian swimmers as the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games team readies itself against the risk of last-minute withdrawals. Team officials fear that the withdrawal of any swimmer might undermine the fragile confidence of others [...]

Melbourne, Sep 28 (ANI): Next time you plan to buy a high-tech toy for your kid, think again-as they are likely to harm them. Top-selling teddies that talk, toddler laptops, and interactive baby games may be a lot of fun for the kids but could be damaging if used as electronic babysitters, doctors have warned. [...]

Melbourne, Sep 27 (ANI): TV star Kim Kardashian has revealed that she is not averse to being in a relationship with a man but it is not a necessity for her happiness. The 29-year-old star recently split with NFL footballer Miles Austin. She has earlier dated NFL player Reggie Bush, football player Cristiano Ronaldo, pop [...]

Melbourne, Sept 27 (ANI): A female robber in Darwin, Australia is said to have robbed a fast food restaurant, and then stripped to a bikini before fleeing with more than 500 dollars in cash. The woman, believed to be between 25 and 30 years of age, walked into a Berrimah’s Subway restaurant in broad daylight [...]

Melbourne, Sep 27 (ANI): A new research has shown that New South Wales (NSW) workers spend less time in the office than a decade ago. While full-timers older than 65 are working the longest hours of any age group at 44 hours a week, it”s Generation Y leading the way on the work-life balance. NSW”s [...]

Melbourne, Sept 27 (ANI): Increasingly hectic work schedules are wreaking havoc with most people’s lives these days, but a new study revealed that working mothers and full time working-women are affected the most. The study by the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia, found working women were the most unhappy. [...]

Melbourne, Sep 27 (ANI): Two students have become the first same-sex pair to make it to the Guinness World Records for the longest continuous kiss ever—a 32 hour, 30 minute, 45 second smooch. But, Matty Daley, 20, and Bobby Canciello, 19, said there was no romantic motivation for feat—it was simply a plan hatched while [...]

Melbourne, Sep 27 (ANI): Australian swimmer Ryan Napoleon is not concerned about security threats, and, is only worried about competing in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games after spending thousands of dollars this month on a Court of Arbitration appeal against a three-month doping ban. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared Napoleon to compete [...]

New Delhi, Sep 27 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has said that khadi empowered Indians to wage a non-violent freedom struggle. Inaugurating an exhibition on textiles ”Power Cloths of the Commonwealth”, Kumar said: “If cloth empowers you, then it is incumbent upon you to empower those who create the cloth by fulfilling their hopes [...]

Melbourne, Sep 27 (ANI): Now, get an ultimate final send off, with vinyl records made out of your ash. And Vinyly, the creation of English record label boss Jason Leach, offers the service for around 3500 dollars so you can “live on from beyond the groove!” Customers can supply audio, or choose music from the [...]

Melbourne, Sep 27 (IANS) A man was brutally attacked by four teenagers in this Australian city after they asked him ‘Buddy, are you Indian?’. The Indian man, 21, was walking to Sandown Park rail station at 6.40 a.m. last Wednesday when four teenagers on bikes approached him. They were armed with baseball bats, Dandenong Leader [...]

New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) The bid for the Commonwealth Games 2010 was spurred by an appeal made by students of 120 schools of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), says sports writer and filmmaker Sunil Yash Kalra. ‘They prepared a memorandum, put their signatures and said, ‘Hey, we want the Commonwealth Games’,’ Kalra [...]

Melbourne, Sep 21 (ANI): Half of Aussie blokes harbour a secret desire to swap their girlfriend for someone new, revealed a study. The American Express Enrichment Report found one out of every two men thought getting a new woman would enrich their lives, compared with 44 per cent of women who said a new man [...]

Melbourne, Sep 21 (ANI): The days are long gone when mobile phone use was restricted to just talking and texting, for it is now barging into the territory of PCs, so much so, that people prefer checking their mails on their cellphones instead of their computers. According to a report, half of users in their [...]

Melbourne, Sep 21 (ANI): Lady Gaga has reportedly been ordered to put on weight by her record label, Interscope. The pop star has apparently been urged by management at Interscope that she must put on weight following a number of health scares this year. “She was baffled by the request since the industry usually only [...]

Melbourne, Sept 21 (ANI): If you thought batting your eyelashes at a guy could get you a date with him, forget it. Clever chat-up lines, psychological mind games and body language don’t always work at attracting the opposite sex, says an expert. In fact, the best way to hit it off with that person is [...]

Melbourne, Sep 21 (ANI): West Indian legend Sir Garfield Sobers has said that Australian great Shane Warne has been overrated as a bowler. Sobers made this claim in a book released in England titled “In a League of Their Own: 100 Cricket Legends Select Their World XI”. Sobers used his foreword to overcome the notion [...]

Melbourne, Sept 21 (ANI): The appeal of Indian-origin doctor in Australia, Jayant Patel, against his convictions for killing and maiming his patients has been postponed till next year because of his inability to pay his lawyers’ fee. The former Bundaberg Base Hospital chief surgeon was jailed for seven years in July after he was convicted [...]

Melbourne, Sep 20 (ANI): English author Sir Terry Pratchett has made his own sword with meteorites to equip himself for his new status after being knighted by the Queen. However, it was not enough for him to simply find some metal and get a blacksmith to bash it into shape. Pratchett, who believed the sword [...]