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Downhill skier Jessica Gallagher has made Australian Paralympics history, becoming the country’s first woman to win a medal at the Winter Games.
Gallagher took out bronze in the visually impaired women’s skiing at Whistler on Monday morning (AEDT), Australia’s first medal of the Games.
She posted a time of 0:57.77 to finish third behind Austrian Sabine Gasteiger [...]

Auckland, Mar. 15 (ANI): New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori believes his team missed a ploy ot two to get one across the Australians during the recently held Chappell-Hadlee one-day series.
The gripping five-match series ended in favour of Australia, who emerged as 3-2 victors.
Last summer New Zealand led 2-0, then at 2-2 were poised to [...]

Pacemen Shane Bond and Tim Southee have dismantled Australia as New Zealand bookended the five-match one-day series with a consolation victory in Hamilton.
Chasing yet another ordinary total of 241, the tourists folded for 190 with the knowledge they had already wrapped up the series with their third win in game four.
Bond (4 for 26) and [...]

t was fourth time unlucky for Australian costume designer Janet Patterson at the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
Patterson picked up the fourth Oscar nomination of her career for the costumes she created for the Abbie Cornish-starred, Jane Campion-directed English period drama Bright Star.
But just like her three previous nominations, the Sydneysider was snubbed by the Academy [...]

London, Sep.14 (ANI): Wicketkeeper Matt Prior believes England can start winning again after suffering a four-nil series loss to Australia.

After Saturday’s seven-wicket drubbing against Australia at Lord’s, England are sliding towards a humiliating 7-0 whitewash.

The Aussies will take on the Poms in the fifth match at Trent Bridge tomorrow.

“There’s no getting away from it [...]

London, Sep 11 (ANI): Ravi Bopara, who has been struggling with his batting form, remains convinced that he will become an international star despite a desperate struggle against Australia.

He has already been dropped from England’s [...]

London, Sep 3 (ANI): Wicketkeeper Matt Prior says he has proved the selectors right, both with the bat, as well as through his flawless work behind the stumps, as England sealed a 2-1 Ashes victory over Australia.

Dubbed ‘Dire Prior’ by England legend Bob Willis before the series, the 27-year-old turned in some excellent performances [...]

London, Aug 30 (ANI): England all rounder Andrew Flintoff is stumping up 6,000 pounds to have two giant mosaics of the Ashes urn built into the bottom of his swimming pools.

The England all-rounder is including two pools in the basement of the 4 million pounds mansion he’s having built.

He was so bowled over [...]

Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): Australia needs a street fighter like Simon Katich to trigger a revival, after calls for sacking of Ricky Ponting in the wake of the Ashes loss under the Tasmanian’s captaincy for the second time in four years

Australian cricket has lost the ruthless cutting edge cultivated by Steve Waugh that made them [...]

London, Aug. 26 (ANI): Six of England’s Ashes-winning heroes flew to Ireland last night for a match that has left them angry and frustrated.

They believe it is ridiculous they must play a one-day international in Belfast tomorrow in the same week as their epic win over the Aussies at The Oval.

The players already have a [...]

London, Aug 25(ANI): Former Australian cricketer Jeff Thomson has said that Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who is flying home for a rest, should not abandon his “sinking ship” but rather stay back and clear up the mess in England.

Thomson said that unless Ponting [...]

Melbourne, July 16(ANI): Call it “materialism” or simple liking, but most people prefer to sacrifice breakfast than live without their mobile phones or favourite bag, a new Australian study has found.

The research conducted by arnold and bolingbroke on the bequest of American Express focussed on the attachment Aussies have to the personal possessions they carry [...]

London, July 16(ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff’s decision to quit international Test cricket after the ongoing Ashes series has shocked quite a few Australian cricketers, including Nathan Hauritz and Marcus North.

Hauritz and North had faced Flintoff for the first time at Cardiff last week, and were gearing up for Thursday’s second Test match at Lord’s, [...]

London, July 14 (ANI): Off-spinner Graham Swann has said that England saved the first Ashes Test fair and square, and the Australians can talk all they like about delaying tactics.

In an article for The Sun, Swann said: ” We will go to Lord’s on Thursday with the series locked at 0-0 because of a brilliant [...]

London, July 11 (ANI): A 34-year-old British novice piped experienced Americans and Aussies to become world peashooting champion.

Jim Collins, who entered the competition just for fun, beat experienced participants from as far away as Australia, the [...]

Melbourne, Jul 13 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that nearly nine out of ten Australians feel an “unhealthy” amount of stress, and most feel that it is largely contributed by work.

The Newspoll, commissioned by Lifeline Australia, revealed that finances, health, and personal relationships were also the other contributors to stress.

However, the levels of [...]

Cardiff (Wales), July 13 (ANI): England’s Ashes team has escaped a sex ban – as long as they stay off the booze.

The Daily Express quoted a team source as saying: “We’ve got no reason to believe sex affects performance, unlike a few too many beers. But if they do decide to have a few drinks, [...]

Melbourne/Cardiff, July 13 (ANI): A panel of Australian cricketing experts, including Nick McArdle, Damien Fleming and Mark Waugh, have concluded that Australian captain Ricky Ponting’s tactics on the final day of the first Ashes Test at Cardiff, Wales, came up short, and this enabled England to salvage a draw.

Former Australia fast bowler Damien Fleming said [...]

Cardiff (Wales), July 12 (ANI): Kevin Pietersen has told his shell-shocked England team-mates they must stand up and be counted today to prove they can handle an intense summer of Aussie pressure.

“We’ve put ourselves under a hell of a lot of pressure and it’s up to us to stand up and be counted now,” News [...]

Sydney, July 9 (ANI): Malcolm Turnbull, leader of the opposition in the Australian Parliament, has said that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s “Rudd Speak” with calls for “detailed programmatic specificity” has left not German translators, but Aussies as well.

Turnbull criticised Rudd’s statement made while on the Berlin tour, where Rudd said: “it was unlikely any [...]