Former Australia batsman Damien Martyn has told the current tourists to pick themselves up in a bid to regain the Ashes.

A man who murdered a pregnant woman in China to sell her corpse as a “ghost bride” has been executed, state media reported Thursday.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Thursday officially launched his political party to contest Australian elections this year, saying a victory for this candidates would be akin to planting the country’s “best investigative journalists” in the Senate.

An Indian court trying a teenager over the fatal gang-rape of a student last December on a bus in the capital delayed announcing the first verdict in the case on Thursday, lawyers said.

Militants attacked a police station in north Iraq on Wednesday with mortar rounds and automatic weapons, killing nine police, while seven people died in other violence, security officers and doctors said.

Russia’s migration service has provided fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden with a document that allows him to leave the Moscow airport transit zone where he has been holed up for the last month, a report said here Wednesday.

Egypt’s Army chief called Wednesday for mass rallies to back a crackdown on “terrorism and violence,” in comments quickly slammed as a “threat” by a senior Islamist who vowed to continue protests.

Manchester United stumbled to a 3-2 defeat against Japan’s Yokohama Marinos on Tuesday in their second loss in three games under new manager David Moyes.

Zimbabwe begin a five-match one-day series against India on Wednesday accepting that victory in even one of the games would represent a good result against the top-ranked side in the world.

Fast bowler Morne Morkel claimed 3/34 as South Africa restricted Sri Lanka to 223/9 from 49.2 overs in the second one-day international in Colombo on Tuesday.