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English pacer Stuart Broad bowled an astonishing spell against Australia in Ashes 2013 at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-street. The home Ashes 2013 series was a memorable one for the English side, where they defeated Australia by 3-0 and won the Ashes urn. England won in Nottingham, London (The Lord’s) and Chester-le-street,…

Dear colleagues and students I am delighted to announce that the 2022 TB Davie Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Fran Elaine Baum, director of Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide in Australia. The lecture will be a physical event and is organised by the Academic Freedom Committee (AFC),…

Eco-anxiety, climate doom, environmental existential dread - as green journalists, we see these terms used a lot - and often feel them ourselves.There's a lot to be worried about when it comes to the climate and nature crises, but when a sense of hopelessness becomes the overarching emotion, apathy begins to creep in too. Last year three…

A year since the Indian hockey teams regained space in the national consciousness with exceptional performances at the Tokyo Olympics, the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) have served a reminder that sports isn’t a mathematical equation with a single definite solution. But, an unsure science with every permutation and process throwing up new…

Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Continuing India's good show in Commonwealth Games, shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen bagged gold in Singles events, while Chirag Shetty - Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy took home gold in the men's double's match. After an explosive tenth day which saw medals raining for India across sports like athletics, cricket,…

Judith Durham, Australia's folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79. Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on Friday night after suffering complications from a long-standing lung disease, Universal Music Australia and Musicoast said in a statement on Saturday. She made her first…

As police continue to seek out information from the public about two, there is a tool authorities haven't used yet that some say could be key to solving the case. NSW Police renewed their appeal for information to the public over a week ago, releasing the names and photographs of Amaal, 23, and Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, to encourage anyone to…

The sepia lithograph in the National Library was irresistible to the novelist in Robert Drewe. Painted in 1866, a tiny boy in red shorts leans against a milestone on a winding English country road. On the milestone is a winner’s sash. John Day was the “Child Phenomenon from Australia”.He was 10 years old, weighed four stone and was undefeated…

When Australia's Madison de Rozario won the women's T53/54 marathon at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, there were only two athletes on the podium.It was the same when Jess Gallagher and pilot Caitlin Ward won the women's tandem B track cycling sprint finals.Due to the small number of competitors in those events, no bronze medal was…

BIRMINGHAM, England -- A week after the Lionesses became the pride of England for winning soccer's Women's European Championship, their compatriots in field hockey are hoping for their own historic moment in Birmingham.England has claimed a women's hockey medal in the six previous Commonwealth Games but gold has proved elusive. A thrilling…