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  • Clarke says disgraced Warner could miss Ashes over bar-room brawl with Root

    Australian captain Michael Clarke has said that disgraced opener David Warner may miss this summer's Ashes after his bar-room brawl with England's Joe Root. The left-hander has been suspended until the first Ashes test by Cricket Australia (CA) and fined 11, 500 dollars after throwing a punch at Root in a Birmingham pub, following Australia's loss to England in their ICC Champions Trophy ...

  • India-born Amol Rajan is editor of Londons The Independent

    Indian-born Amol Rajan has been appointed editor of the London morning daily The Independent, making him Fleet Street's first non-white editor, the newspaper reported Monday. Rajan, 29, was previously the daily's comment editor. Oliver Duff, who was executive editor and news editor of The Independent, has been named editor of sister title, i, while another executive editor, Lisa Markwell, has ...

  • Pietersen confirms fitness for Ashes after knee injury

    England batsman Kevin Pietersen who has not played since March owing to knee injury has confirmed that he will be returning to the team and aim for the Ashes series. Pietersen has said that he will return with the Surrey in their County Championship fixture against Yorkshire in the next week, Sport24 reports. According to the report, this fixture has been considered a comeback for Pietersen ...

  • Ball tampering allegations by Giles untrue and disappointing Anderson

    England fast bowler, James Anderson has called the allegations leveled against the team for ball tempering by its former captain Ashley Giles as 'untrue' and 'very disappointing'. Anderson denied the allegations made by Giles that the team obtained reverse swing by methods banned under cricket's laws, Sydney Morning Herald reports. According to the report, Anderson expressed surprise over the ...

  • Putin denies stealing Patriots Super Bowl $25000 ring

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has denies allegations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring. Putin added that he is ready to buy Kraft another ring as a gift. According to Politico, the Russian president was reacting through a spokesman to a New York Post story quoting remarks made by Kraft at an awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel last Thursday. Kraft ...


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A Night to Dismember [DVD]

A Night to Dismember [DVD]

Only the most ardent exploitation and fringe cinema fanatics would argue that Doris Wishman is a good filmmaker in any sense of the word, but she is nothing if not opportunistic. Having gotten her start in 1960 by jumping on the nudist-exploitation bandwagon early in the cycle with Hideout in the Sun, the self-taught filmmaker became one of the most prolific independent female producer-dir ... ...

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  • Australia can lead the way for intersex people | Morgan Carpenter

    guidelines . This has been possible as part of a government commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) inclusion, even while public awareness of intersex remains sketchy. You see, our lives are medicalised, and our voices rarely heard. This limited understanding was recently exemplified by a press agency report published globally this month: ...

  • England loss proved costly for Australia

    Australia went down fighting in their campaign ending Champions Trophy loss to Sri Lanka, but ultimately their limp performance against England in the first match is to blame for one of their worst ever results at a world one-day tournament.Set a target of 254 to win after opting to field first, Australia needed to score at a challenging 8.7 runs an over and wrap up the chase in 29.1 overs in ...

  • Where is the outrage over Prism in Australia | Antony Loewenstein

    Americans support the leak , and Snowden receives a higher approval rating than US citizens view Congress. History has also been kind to one of the great leakers in history, the Pentagon Paper’s Daniel Ellsberg ...

  • Maria Miller warns internet firms on child abuse images

    ISPs .In a sign of the government's impatience with the likes of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter, sources say the firms must do more after acting as though "blind" to the problem of child abuse images.Miller said: "Child abuse images are horrific and widespread public concern has made it clear that the industry must take action. Enough is enough."In recent days we ...

  • Danger for children of texting while crossing roads

    Children are putting their safety at risk by being distracted by their phones when crossing the road, according to a report published ...

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