Michael Brown, Australia’s general manager of cricket has confirmed that vice-captain Michael Clarke has quit the game to deal with some personal matters. Clarke left Hamilton ahead of today’s third one day international against New Zealand and as of yet there has been no announcement as to when or if ...

Aviation giant Airbus is one of the defendants in a class action which has been filed in the U.S. after a computer glitch on one of its A330-300s caused significant injury to a number of passengers. In October 2008 a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth nose-dived twice in quick ...

The extent of the devastation caused by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday is beginning to emerge as the official death toll passes 700. Over half those killed were in Chiles second largest city Concepcion. Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has declared the disaster a catastrophe and said that ...

The Royal world premier of Tim Burton’s version of Alice In Wonderland will take place this Thursday at the Odeon cinema in London’s Leicester Square even though Odeon does not plan to show the movie nationwide. Both Odeon and Vue Cinemas have announced that they will be boycotting the 3-D ...

A high speed train crash in Belgium has claimed the lives of at least 18 people. A further 162 have been injured 11 of who are in a serious condition. The accident is one of the worst train crashes in Belgian history and it occurred during rush hour as many ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been asked by the Dutch Government to review its claim that fifty-five percent of the Netherlands is below sea level. The IPCC has said that what it meant to say was that fifty-five percent of the country was at risk from flooding. The ...

Fashion Week may well be under way in New York but the fashion world is in stunned mourning at the news that one of its greatest designers has committed suicide. Alexander McQueen, dubbed by some as the bad boy of fashion, has been found hanged in his London apartment. Born the son of ...

Advances in technology are often dreamt up by science fiction writers long before they are available to those of us who live in the real world. Douglas Adams came up with the idea of a small fish called the Babel Fish which, when inserted into the ear, would enable the ...

The District Court has heard how the owner of a hostel allegedly drugged and raped a woman after inviting her and a friend to his home for lunch. Lubo Zahorsky from Sydney denies that he committed rape and claims that any sex which took place was consensual. Mr. Zahorsky stands accused ...

An Australian advertisement for KFC showing West Indies cricket fans has been described as racist in the US. In the TV campaign which tells viewers it is too easy to calm an unruly mob of Windies fans by sharing a bucket of fried chicken with them. The advertisement, which has ...