Kolkata, November 17 : Rain forced suspension of play on the second day of the opening Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Edens Gardens here on Friday. After just 11.5 overs could be bowled on Thursday, India started the second day’s proceedings at 17-3 but rain once again came back to interrupt the […]
Sydney : A huge cocaine haul hidden in the hull of a yacht has been seized off the east coast of Australia, police said on Thursday. Some 700 kilos (1,543 pounds) of the drug with an estimated street value of USD 186 million were intercepted on Wednesday about 100 kilometres north of Sydney, they said. Three […]
Melbourne : Australian lawmakers on Thursday vowed to push through laws legalising same-sex marriage by early December, after a national survey found the majority of Australians favoured the move. Both Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition government and the main opposition Labor Party said they were aiming to pass the law through parliament by December […]
New York : An Australian diplomat accidentally fell five floors to his death on Wednesday from the deck of his New York City home during a social gathering with his wife and friends, police and local media said.Julian Simpson, 30, plummeted from a seventh-floor balcony to a second-floor landing shortly after 1 a.m. (0600 GMT) […]