Новости за 12.12.2015

The selectors now have a peg to hang their persistent but oft-questioned choice of Marsh firmly on. He has made a big hundred and that is all that can be asked of him.

Australian cricket great Shane Warne has endorsed Nathan Lyon as "the first picked" in the Test side.

There could be changes in the chances at the captaincy at multiple AFL clubs next season, but St Kilda is unlikely to be one of them, according to Saints leadership group member Mav Weller.

I'm getting sick of reading that our playing numbers are up again. It's getting monotonous.

As the phantom siren made himself heard from the Ricky Ponting Stand, the West Indian batsmen responded like swimmers clearing the water at Bondi: in a panic. With snow dusting Mount Wellington, their batting collapse on Saturday started as a retreat but soon had the magnitude of a migration.

Darren Lehmann admits Shaun Marsh will be hard to drop as the hosts, having dispatched the West Indies inside three days, face the biggest dilemma of the series inside their own camp.

The youngest son of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader deposed and killed four years ago, was abducted in Lebanon and then handed over to security forces by militants seeking to avenge a prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric, the state-run National News Agency said on Friday.

While not everyone spotted former senator Kate Lundy in the motorcade, it was hard to miss two sleighs and close to 950 riders in Christmas fancy dress at the 35th annual Motorcycle Riders Association of the Australian Capital Territory Toy Run.

St George Illawarra winger Jason Nightingale plans to go from adversary to mentoring fellow NRL stars after developing an elite business school.

It took him a couple of years longer than he would have hoped, but Bjorn Baker finally managed to get his hands on Lady Sniper. And didn't he make it count.

Flemington trainer Danny O'Brien has spent the week at the RAD board as one of the key figures in the long running cobalt saga, so to simply step out on a race track in the summer sunshine to saddle up a handful of runners with live chances must have felt like a huge relief.

It's not quite zombie time but the strains are beginning to show as the Paris climate summit nears a climax.

Sydney Sixers batsman Jordan Silk finished the last BBL season being hailed as one of the most exciting young cricketers in the nation, but he knows his biggest challenge when his team opens BBL05 against the Sydney Thunder on Thursday night will be dealing with the extra attention.

A leading Australian Jewish organisation has demanded an apology from Camille Paglia for insulting Taylor Swift.

Playing the Hitler card usually destroys the credibility of an argument, yet American cultural critic Camille Paglia has won support for criticising singer Taylor Swift's "obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine".

After half a century of ownership, it only took a minute for this seller to realise his fortune.

Gold Coast police are on the hunt for one of their own after one of their dogs went missing on Saturday morning.

Bemused racing officials were forced to charter a helicopter to find a horse which got loose before the start of a Kembla Grange race and became lost in dense bushland.

This home was once part of Victoria's low-cost housing estate. But it's sale price is anything but working class.

I visit Airey's Inlet on an annual basis. Airey's Inlet is in the lee of the Otway Ranges and it is where the river flows into the sea. There are panoramic cliff top walks, amazing views from the Great Ocean Road, and "miles and miles" of unspoilt beaches – many of them secluded coves.

Dressed in black, faces covered, members of Antifa are the self-appointed enemies of the far-right.

Ever since he was added to the ABC commentary team this summer we've been waiting for the inevitable moment that he'd be asked about his clash with Michael Clarke.

V8 Supercars has begun a concerted campaign to interest the Victorian Government in backing a proposed street race event in Geelong.

Mick Price would have walked away thinking he should have won the Golden Slipper this year. He might have another handy one in the arsenal for next year.

As captain of Sydney Thunder's Big Bash League team Michael Hussey's mission is to help the squad's younger players overcome the doubts that tormented him - including the secret fear he wasn't good enough to play for Australia - but, there's a catch.