Smoking prevents Alzheimer’s disease is a myth, claims a new study.
In fact, after reviewing more than 40 research papers published since 1984, experts at the University of California have said that smoking nearly doubles the risk of developing the disease.
Professor Jurgen Gotz, from the University of Sydney’s [...]
Here’s why Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Paul McCartney have always looked younger than Sir Mick Jagger, despite both being his senior – ‘Peter Pan’ gene.
British scientists claim the gene explains why some people remain baby-faced while others become old before their time, reports the Courier Mail.
Some people are blessed with DNA that makes [...]
Australia team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris reckons the only way to reduce fast bowler injuries is by providing ample rest to players.
As the debate continues over injuries to fast bowlers, Kountouris claimed it was an unfortunate occupational hazard.
“It’s easy not to get injured. Don’t train hard, don’t play hard and rest all the [...]
Two of the world’s top sports administrators are supporting former Australian Prime Minister John Howard as a candidate for the presidency of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
World Anti-Doping Agency [...]
Former Test stars Damien Fleming (fast bowler) and Kerry O’Keeffe (leg spinner) have both called for a dramatic overhaul of the limited overs schedule, as they feel that fans are deserting this format for the fresher Twenty20 model.
Expressing alarm over the fact that just 25,000 people showed up for Sunday’s Commonwealth Bank series [...]
Australian fast bowler Peter Siddle will not play for at least five months, as he is out with a back injury.
The Sydney Morning Herald quoted the 25-year-old, as saying he had suffered a thoracic back problem, which had gradually worsened to the point where it had become too painful to bowl.
He plans to rest [...]
The Australian state of Victoria has serious problems with racist behaviour and racial violence, feels opposition leader Ted Baillieu.
Declaring war on racism, and putting the Liberal Party on a collision course with Premier John Brumby, who has denied Victoria is a racist state, Baillieu told the Australia India Business Council that racist Victorians [...]
Actress Eva Longoria accidentally sent fans a link to a porn site on the popular social networking site Twitter.
The Desperate Housewives star, who plays Gabrielle Solis in the hit TV series, recently joined the Twitter bandwagon.
The beautiful brunette was trying to post a link to a website about her basketball star husband Tony Parker [...]
A Playboy shareholder has filed a lawsuit against Hugh Hefner for refusing to sell his company despite the adult entertainment business allegedly falling apart.
The shareholder has alleged that Hefner intentionally sabotaged two potential deals in the past six months to sell at a decent price, as he doesn’t want to give up “the parade [...]
Sacha Baron Cohen has dismissed reports that he’s set to marry Isla Fisher later this month.
Reports claimed that the Hollywood couple plans to exchange vows on 26 February (10) and has already sent out invitations to close friends and family.
However, a rep for Cohen insists the planned bash isn’t a wedding [...]
Implementation of Australian licence plate system of three letters and three numbers has led to a rise in the number of rude combinations by New Zealand motorists.
According to New Zealand Transport Agency records, the personalised plates pulled off cars include [...]
Australia’s Immigration Minister Chris Evans has said that international students should not expect to become permanent residents of the country automatically.
“There’s still a pathway for students, but they have to have the skills we need, they have got to have good English language skills [...]
The unique water-repelling ability of termites might help scientists from James Cook University in Townsville in developing new hydrophobic materials.
According to Nanoscience researcher Dr Gregory Watson, water droplets just spontaneously roll off the termite wings.
“It’s advantageous to fly in the rain because you’ve got a mobile canvas of droplets so it’s harder for predators [...]
Boredom can actually kill you, a new study has revealed.
To reach the conclusion, researchers at University College London looked at data from 7524 civil servants, aged between 35 and 55, interviewed between 1985 and 1988 about their levels of boredom.
They then found out whether they had died by April last year.
Those who reported [...]
A daredevil has rewritten world record pages after swallowing 18 razor sharp swords at the same time.
Professional sword swallower Chayne Hultgren set the new Guinness World Record after beating his own 2008 record of 17 swords.
The 31-year-old, popularly called the Space Cowboy, raised the bar after swallowing all of the 72 centimetres long blades [...]
Australia on Sunday crushed West Indies by 113 runs in the first ODI at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Chasing an attainable 257 on a dry, hard pitch in warm conditions, Chris Gayle’s men were bowled out for 143 in the 35th over.
Fast bowler Ryan Harris and off spinner Nathan Hauritz continued their brilliant form [...]
A banker in Sydney stole 7 million dollars from his employer and allegedly spent most of the amount on prostitutes.
Sung Kyu Chung, a senior manager in the Korea Exchange Bank’s Sydney office, pleaded guilty to nicking 7.2 million dollars from the bank by fudging records and staging at least 77 false transactions.
The 41-year-old was [...]
Retired Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie will captain a group of Australian cricketing legends to play against some of the country’s best indigenous players in Alice Springs this week.
Gillespie, with the help of fellow all-stars Matthew Elliot, Greg Matthews and Len Pascoe, will open the 17th Lord’s Taverners Imparja Cup on Sunday night, before [...]
Supermodel Miranda Kerr is glad that the Australian banker who was caught live on TV while looking at near-naked pictures has not been sacked.
Bank advisor David Kiely became an overnight online sensation after cameras captured him opening a series of emails containing photographs of Kerr while one of his colleagues, Martin Lakos, did a [...]
Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson has expressed his admiration of Shaun Tait’s bowling performance in the Twenty20 game against Pakistan, but has cast doubts over the accuracy of the speed gun that clocked his 160.7km/h delivery.
Lawson felt the delivery, reportedly the fastest ever recorded in Australia, was not that fast, and some of [...]
Seven-year-old Julia Lira has become Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival queen, a spectacle that has caused an international uproar.
Lira is from the Shirley Temple of samba, and her selection as the drum corps queen for the Viradouro samba group has raised a stink in a city that has seen pretty much everything during the annual [...]
The divorce capital of Australia is Brisbane.
And it is so because more than 190 marriages are dissolved every week in the city’s Federal Magistrates Court, reports The Courier Mail.
According to figures, the busiest divorce court Down Under processed almost 10,000 divorce applications last financial year.
The Family Magistrates Court 2008-09 annual report showed Queenslanders filed [...]
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has backed his fast bowlers to contain West Indies captain Chris Gayle and his team in the one-day series starting at the MCG from Sunday.
Ponting also claimed to have assembled the best fast-bowling group in the world after the West Indies captain coolly tipped his team to thump Australia in [...]
Indian students living in Australia have slammed Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland’s advice that they should not work as taxi drivers and should “‘look as poor as you can” to avoid being assaulted.
Overland had made the comments at an international students’ safety forum attended by about 150 people in the city on Saturday. [...]
A confident West Indies captain Chris Gayle has said that he is not interested in looking back at the disastrous Test series against Australia, but more focussed on ensuring that his team finishes on a high note in the one-day series that has begun from today.
“I don’t want to look back at the Test [...]
Former Australian Test quick Rodney Hogg has hailed South Australian Shaun Tait as the new-age Jeff Thomson and says he will pilot Australia to Twenty20 World Cup supremacy with his terrifying pace.
“He’s the Jeff Thomson of the Twenty20 era, he’s Australian cricket’s new Thommo. It’s disappointing that we may not see Shaun Tait [...]
Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait has said that his focus on short, sharp spells is the factor behind his speed and he is confident of pushing the radar gun further.
Tait thrilled a crowd of 60,054 at the MCG during Australia’s Twenty20 game against Pakistan on [...]
Australian men consider romance more important than sex, according to a survey.
The Daily Telegraph’s Great Romance survey quizzed more than 600 people about their level of romance in relationships, what they thought was most romantic and whether romance has a time limit to it.
More than half of the men [...]
Australia’s Generation Y will be having a tough time landing a job, as employers find them too lazy and unfocused to be hired.
According to the Courier Mail, bosses see Gen Y workers as people who lack work ethic and spend too much time talking to friends during work [...]
Kylie Minogue may be the descendant of Dinah Riddiford whose execution way back in 1816 became popularly known as ‘The Granny Hanging’.
Fresh documents released online, giving details of some 710,000 British people who migrated to Australia after World War II, claim a link between the singer [...]
