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  • Champions Trophy Srinath match referee for first semifinal

    Former India fast bowler Javagal Srinath was Tuesday appointed the match referee for the first Champions Trophy semifinal between England and South Africa at the Oval on Wednesday. Kumar Dharmasena and Rod Tucker are the on-field umpires while Bruce Oxenford and Steve Davis have been appointed as third and fourth umpires, International Cricket COuncil (ICC) said. Englishman Chris Broad has ...

  • Assange Fit enough to stay in Londons Ecuadorean embassy for another five years

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that he is fit enough to spend another five years in the Ecuadorean embassy. According to the Guardian, Ecuador foreign minister Ricardo Patino said that neither London nor Quito was showing any signs of backing down and Assange's situation is totally 'unjust'. Assange who has been holed up in the embassy for nearly a year faces prosecution over sexual ...

  • Confident Tredwell backs England to win major Champions Trophy

    England off-spinner James Tredwell has said that he is confident that England can win the ICC Champions Trophy tournament this year, which is the country's first 50-over tournament, nearly 40 years after the first one was staged here. Alastair Cook's side are two games away from landing the tournament, with Sunday's nail-biting win over New Zealand in Cardiff, in what was effectively a ...

  • 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 ...

  • England v South Africa De Villiers not worried about ball-tampering - video

    Speaking ahead of Wednesday's ICC Champions Trophy semi-final, South Africa captain AB De Villiers says he has no proof that England are guilty of ball-tampering to get it to reverse-wing early. The claim that England have been illegally manipulating the ball was made by ex-England fast bowler Bob Willis on ...


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Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water

Not since John Boormans ambitiously misguided and deranged 1977 sequel to The Exorcist has there been a film of more straight-faced metaphysical silliness than M. Night Shyamalans Lady in the Water. And rarely has a film so deserved an auteurist possessive credit b ... ...

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  • Palestinian writers refused visas for travel to UK

    Two Palestinian writers have been refused visas to travel to the UK and speak at a festival celebrating contemporary Arab art.The Gaza-based husband and wife writers, Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-Sheikh, were due to talk about their writing at London's ICA on 28 June but have been barred from coming - to the disappointment and frustration of festival organisers.Omar al-Qattan, chairman of ...

  • To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong The true effect of the badger cull

    finds a growing number of farmers - including those whose own farms have been blighted by TB - are now questioning the nature of the cull and its likely ...

  • Stand by for another DECADE of wet summers say meteorologists

    Britain faces ten more years of wet summers, after the Met Office revealed the country is in the midst of a rare weather cycle that increases the prospect of summer rain and could last for two ...

  • Former No 10 spin chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury

    Details of his private appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week, where he made no plea or declaration and was granted bail, was only made possible after a successful legal challenge overturned an earlier court order which banned any media reporting of the legal proceedings.Mr Coulson, 45, was detained at his London home last May and driven 400 miles to Glasgow by officers from the former ...

  • Man dies after falling from yacht mast during Border Force raid

    An investigation is under way following the death of a man who tumbled 40 feet from the mast of a yacht after the vessel was boarded by customs officers.The incident happened on the vessel called Windrose while it was moored in St Mary's harbour, on the Isles of Scilly.The Dutch-registered vessel got into distress on Sunday and had to be towed into the harbour by a lifeboat.The man who died ...

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