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Researchers in Perth are building a database of skeletons to help identify bodies more quickly and accurately.
The University of Western Australia has been given a $400,000 grant for the project, which involves mapping the shape and co-ordinates of bones.
Assistant Professor Daniel Franklin has told WA’s Stateline program, police will then use the database to identify [...]

Sydney, Mar 13(ANI): New South Wales all-rounder Steve Smith, who has been included in Australia’s 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand, has declared himself ready for the challenge of Test cricket.
Smith scored 772 runs at 77.2 and captured 21 wickets, including a career-best seven-wicket haul, at 44.38 this year, and reckons [...]

Nevada (US), Sept 14 (ANI): Hindus have urged New South Wales (NSW) government in Australia to add “Diwali” and “Holi” on the list of restricted trading days in the new law.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA), said that Hindu workers in NSW would like to be home on these days [...]

London, July 16 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting became a tour guide for his rookie team at Lords on Wednesday.

Ponting, on his fourth Ashes tour, didn’t have to wear one of the green blazers of officials who guide visitors around the game’s spiritual home.

He took pacer Peter Siddle and spinner Nathan Hauritz, on their [...]

Toronto (Canada), May 28 (ANI): Filipina nanny Magdalene Gordo, who is one of two caregivers alleging that Indian origin Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla mistreated them, is likely to be exposed as a liar at a news conference here today.

According to a Toronto-based father of four, Gordo walked off the job given to her at his [...]

Melbourne, May 27 (ANI): Australia will play six Tests, 10 one-day internationals and three Twenty20s against the West Indies and Pakistan in 2009-2010.

According to the Herald Sun, the summer will open with three Test matches against the West Indies, followed by three against Pakistan, [...]

London, May 7 (ANI): Australia’s former pace bowler Damien Fleming has said that mastering English conditions rather than fitness is Brett Lee’s greatest concern in the Ashes lead-up.

Lee was named ahead of fellow New South Welshman Doug Bollinger in Australia’s 15-man [...]

Melbourne, May 5 (ANI): Fast bowler Brett Lee and all-rounder Shane Watson have been included in Australia’s squad for next month’s Twenty20 world championship in England.

Lee and Watson were part of a 15-man squad named on Tuesday, which also included all-rounder Andrew Symonds and explosive opener David Warner.

Lee and Watson are aiming to bowl [...]

Abu Dhabi, May 4 (ANI): Australian cricket team coach Tim Nielsen believes that the selectors will be taking a chance on Brett Lee and Shane Watson when it comes to choosing the World Twenty20 squad on Tuesday.

Both Lee and Watson are planning to make their competitive bowling comeback in Australia’s Twenty20 match against Pakistan in [...]

Abu Dhabi (UAE). May 3 (ANI): Pacer Brett Lee could play his first game for Australia since last year’s Boxing Day Test in the final one-dayer against Pakistan tonight.

As Lee works his way back from ankle surgery, a decision will be made just before the match in Abu Dhabi, [...]

Abu Dhabi (UAE), Apr.28 (ANI): Fast bowler Brett Lee has been asked to join the Australian side in Abu Dhabi ahead of a possible comeback in the final games of the one-day series against Pakistan.

Lee, who last played for Australia in last year’s Boxing Day Test against South Africa, will fly to Abu Dhabi [...]

Melbourne, Apr 12 (ANI): Adam Gilchrist has backed Indian Premier League teammate Andrew Symonds to continue his rebirth and force his way into Australia’s squad for the Ashes.

Symonds has been picked in Australia’s one-day squad for the upcoming series against Pakistan and the preliminary squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in signs the selectors are [...]

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have worked out a mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be.

The research, led by Newcastle University’s Professor Robin Johnson, was prompted by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami disaster which [...]

London, March 20 (ANI): A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future.

According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the [...]

Cape Town (South Africa), Mar.16 (ANI): Australia will play South Africa every summer under plans being negotiated by the two cricket boards, but in future the visitors will never be seen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day.

The teams will play a three-Test series in one country one [...]

Melbourne, Mar 14 (ANI): Out of reckoning pacer Brett Lee has said that the short spells he will bowl in the Indian Premier League will be ideal preparation for what he hopes will be his third Ashes cricket tour of England.

Lee returns to action [...]

London, Feb 23 (ANI): It was certainly a letter from the distant past, when a Brit women received a note, addressed to a man who used to live in her home in 90 years ago.

The letter was an RSVP note to a party hosted by a Percy Bateman and his partner Grace. It was sent [...]

Adelaide, Jan.22 (ANI): Former Australian batsman Darren Lehmann has called for Andrew Symonds’ return to the Australian one-day side “as soon as possible” as the all-rounder prepares to make his comeback for Queensland.

Lehmann believes that the current squad has sorely “missed” the services of 33-year-old Symonds since he underwent surgery following the Boxing Day Test, [...]

Melbourne, Jan.15 (ANI): Cricket authorities are expecting Friday’s 50-over one-day international between Australia and South Africa on Friday to show which format is more popular among fans — Twenty20 or the 50-over game.
According to the Courier Mail, Cricket Victoria CEO Tony Dodemaide expects a smaller crowd than the 63,000 who watched the pyrotechnics of Twenty20 [...]