MELBOURNE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Opening batsman Phillip
Hughes has returned from a dislocated shoulder while
wicketkeeper Brad Haddin remains unavailable for Australia
after selectors confirmed their test squad for two matches in
India next month.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The key monsoon rains were 16 percent above normal in the past week, compared with 29 percent above normal in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday.
MELBOURNE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Any players found guilty of
being involved in match-fixing or any other form of illegality
related to gambling in cricket should be banned for life,
former Australian spinner Shane Warne has said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andy Murray sent an ominous warning to his U.S. Open rivals when he breezed through his first match at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday before home hope Andy Roddick made an undignified exit in the last match of the day.
MILAN (Reuters) - Ferrari said it is recalling more than 1,240 of its 458 Italia supercars to replace an adhesive prone to melting after five reports of fire accidents.
BANGALORE (Reuters) - General Electric and Westinghouse Electric, owned by Japan's Toshiba Corp, could spend a combined $10 billion to build two nuclear reactors in India, the Financial Express reported on Thursday.
TAUNTON, England (Reuters) - Pakistan test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif will meet their country's High Commissioner later on Thursday to discuss corruption allegations levelled against the team.
TAUNTON, England, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan test captain
Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif
will meet their country's High Commissioner later on Thursday to
discuss corruption allegations levelled against the team.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Reuters) - U.S. police shot and killed a man who took three people hostage, waving a gun and apparently fitted out with explosives, in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel near Washington on Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of the digital living room.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Reuters) - Police shot a gunman who had taken three people hostage at Discovery Channel's headquarters on Wednesday, ending a tense four-hour standoff near Washington.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden reopened a probe on Wednesday into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, who has infuriated the U.S. military by publishing secret documents on Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it will lead 15 U.S. companies, including Boeing, General Electric and Wamar International, on a trade mission in October to help rebuild Iraq.
NEW DELHI/TORONTO (Reuters) - India added Google and Skype to its electronic security crackdown on Wednesday and began accessing some of the traffic carried on its initial target, Research In Motion's BlackBerry.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andre Agassi headlined a list of nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame following a sparkling career highlighted by eight grand slam titles and an Olympic gold medal.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Reuters) - A man carrying a gun is holding a number of hostages inside the Discovery Channel headquarters building in suburban Washington on Wednesday, a police official said.
