Melbourne: The Australian Cricket Board has reacted angrily to claims that Indian skipper Sachin Tendulkar was only named man of the recent Test series – won three-nil by Australia – to help hose down claims that racism was rife in all levels of Australian cricket from adminstrators to players to umpires.
"That's absolute rubbish, " a board spokesperson said. "The little black bastard won it fair and square."

Sydney: The controversial Sisters of Mercy full-frontal nude calander for 2000 has gone into its third print run here.

Melbourne: Delighted plant breeders at McDonalds believe they have created a hybrid beetroot species that tastes even less like beetroot than the beetroot the international food giant currently uses for its McOz hamburgers.

Hobart: Nothing happened again here yesterday.