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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:52:12 GMT
Emotional Carey slams ton to give Australia upper hand in 3rd Ashes Test
Batting after captain Pat Cummins won the toss as temperatures topped 36 Celsius at Adelaide Oval, the hosts were 326-8 at stumps on day one after the shock of Steve Smith being ruled out with illness. Mitchell Starc was not out 33 and Nathan Lyon ...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:46:13 GMT
Myanmar junta seeks to prosecute hundreds for election 'disruption'
The junta is touting phased elections starting December 28 as a step towards reconciliation in Myanmar, which has been consumed by civil war since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup. Opposition factions are set to block the polls in areas o...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:10:24 GMT
West Indies hope Christmas comes early in must-win New Zealand Test
The visitors trail 1-0 after being thrashed by nine wickets last week in Wellington and have not won in their previous seven Tests. The first Test at Christchurch was drawn. "Guys had some time to reflect," Chase said on Wednesday of the heavy def...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:48:11 GMT
Knicks beat Spurs in NBA Cup final to end 52-year trophy drought
Forward Anunoby rattled in five three-pointers and point guard Jalen Brunson finished with 25 points as New York clinched their first silverware since the 1973 NBA Finals at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. San Antonio went into the final brimming ...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:36:19 GMT
What we know about Australia's Bondi Beach attack
Here's what we know about one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings. Gunfire at Bondi Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed, 24, used long-barrelled guns to fire on Jewish crowds packing Bondi Beach for Hanukkah on Sunday evening. Authorities said ...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:34:22 GMT
Grief and fear as Sydney's Jewish community mourns 'Bondi rabbi'
Onlookers sobbed as the hearse carrying the 41-year-old -- known as the "Bondi rabbi" -- pulled up and his coffin, emblazoned with a black velvet cloth bearing the Star of David, was unloaded. As a steady stream of mourners filed in, two overcome y...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:42:12 GMT
Brazil Senate to debate bill to slash Bolsonaro jail term
Bolsonaro, 70, began serving a 27-year prison sentence in November after his conviction for a botched coup bid after his 2022 election loss. After months of jockeying by his supporters in Congress for some sort of amnesty for the far-right leader, ...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:15:05 GMT
Eurovision facing fractious 2026 as unity unravels
Eurovision organisers announced Monday that 35 countries would take part in the world's biggest live televised music event in May -- the fewest since entry was expanded in 2004. The number would have been even lower, but for Bulgaria, Romania and M...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:08:27 GMT
'Extremely exciting': the ice cores that could help save glaciers
The fist-sized sample drilled from a mountaintop is part of an ambitious international effort to understand why glaciers in Tajikistan have resisted the rapid melting seen almost everywhere else. "If we could learn the mechanism behind the increase...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:50:16 GMT
What we know about Trump's $10 billion BBC lawsuit
Here's what we know about the row: - Why Florida? - Trump filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Miami, Florida, the state where he is a legal resident and where he has filed previous lawsuits against US media outlets. His lawyers argue that ma...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:33:03 GMT
Ukraine's lost generation caught in 'eternal lockdown'
His father Stanislav, a career soldier, was killed defending the country's second city Kharkiv just weeks after Russia invaded in 2022. On top of all they have been through, his mother Iryna, 50, was recently diagnosed with stage-three cancer of the...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:08:14 GMT
'Catastrophic mismatch': Safety fears as Jake Paul faces Anthony Joshua
Just over a year after his much-derided victory over a 58-year-old Mike Tyson, the 28-year-old American Paul will climb into the ring at Miami's Kaseya Center to confront a far younger -- and vastly more dangerous -- opponent in the 36-year-old Josh...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:54:12 GMT
Australia's Steve Smith ruled out of third Ashes Test
Smith, who captained the team to emphatic eight-wicket wins in Perth and Brisbane, missed training on Monday citing illness but batted on Tuesday and was initially named in the starting XI. He was on the field at Adelaide Oval but walked off 20 min...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:54:12 GMT
Ten-year-old girl, Holocaust survivors among Bondi Beach dead
The elder gunman, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, was killed in a shootout with police. His 24-year-old son, Naveed, is in hospital, under police guard and charged on multiple counts including terrorism and 15 murders. The shooting victims, some killed ...

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:46:12 GMT
Carey slams ton as Australia seize upper hand in third Ashes Test
Batting after captain Pat Cummins won the toss as temperatures topped 36 Celsius at Adelaide Oval, the hosts were 326-8 at stumps on day one after the shock news of Steve Smith being ruled out with illness. Mitchell Starc was not out 33 and Nathan ...

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