A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida.
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Mitchell Swepson has frankly admitted doubts crept into his mind during his 514-ball wait for a third Test wicket.Swepson justified his selection as Australia's second spinner in the team's series-opening win over Sri Lanka, taking five wickets for the match in Galle.
Sydney coach John Longmire has declared Isaac Heeney a certain starter for Friday night's clash with the Western Bulldogs, while Josh Kennedy is a sneaky chance of making an early AFL return.Kennedy hasn't played since tearing his hamstring while wiping out Carlton's Sam Docherty in a late spoiling attempt in round 10.
A back garden feature has sparked a war with wound-up neighbours who've slammed the addition as 'revolting'. Find out what's happened.
Trouble remembering where you left your keys could trigger anxiety for which there are plenty of medicines, but new research has found some might worsen your cognitive abilities.Using a unique genetic model developed by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, scientists have gained new understanding of how some anti-anxiety medications put undue pressure on the brain to act out in weird ways.
Star Richmond midfielder Dustin Martin has been ruled out of Saturday's AFL clash with Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium with a hamstring injury.Martin was subbed out of Sunday's 35-point AFL win over West Coast in the third term with what coach Damien Hardwick described as hamstring tightness.
Kurtley Beale will target a Rugby Championship return for the Wallabies as he battles a hamstring rupture that has kept him off the park for five months.The 95-Test veteran made a fleeting visit to camp Wallaby on the Gold Coast on Monday, having returned from a two-year club stint with Racing 92 in France last week.
Calls for the Liberals and Nationals to adopt gender quotas appear to have been rejected by party leaders, despite female voters abandoning the coalition at the federal election.When the new parliament meets for the first time on July 26, women will make up 11 of the coalition's 58 members in the House of Representatives, or 18 per cent.
The two fatal shark attacks off Egypt's Red Sea coast happened just 600m apart at a spot popular with European tourists. Find out more.
A bushfire emergency warning has been issued for a community south of Darwin with a blaze considered a risk to lives and property.The fire is burning in the area of Poett Road at Rum Jungle.
A fireside chat with his parents could be key to setting Carlton spearhead Charlie Curnow straight in front of goal in the AFL clash with West Coast.The Blues' leading goal-kicker was wayward in his last outing, kicking a costly 1.
Three Queensland lobbyists will be barred from contacting cabinet ministers as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk seeks to make her government "the most transparent" in the country.Ms Palaszczuk announced the move on Monday after the Coaldrake report last week raised serious concerns about lobbyists accessing and influencing her government.
R Kelly was put on suicide watch to keep him safe, despite the disgraced R&B; star's insistence in a lawsuit the move was done "as a form of punishment," federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say.In court filings, the prosecutors said Kelly was placed on a temporary suicide watch following his 30-year sentence for sex trafficking at the recommendation of a staff psychologist at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
HIGHLIGHTS IN AFLW SEASON SEVEN FIXTURE* Carlton v Collingwood, August 25The Blues and Magpies return to the venue where they kicked off the women's competition back in 2017, squaring off again to open season seven at Ikon Park.* Adelaide v Melbourne, August 26Daisy Pearce has decided to play on for the Demons and will be keen to help her side exact some revenge in their first meeting with the Crows since last season's grand final.
Geelong veteran Zach Tuohy says Thursday night's top-of-the-table AFL clash with Melbourne has a "finals smell" to it, and thinks it's ridiculous that some people are still doubting the Demons.The Cats have won six games on the trot and could leapfrog Melbourne into top spot with victory at GMHBA Stadium.
Matt Lodge is happy to say his time as an NRL enforcer is over after signing for his third club in the space of a year.The prop has joined the Sydney Roosters on a contract until the end of the season after leaving Brisbane and the Warriors in acrimonious circumstances over the last 12 months.
The AFL remains non-committal on granting AFLW players' wishes to extend the women's season and ensure every club plays each of its rivals once.The league on Monday confirmed details of its 10-round fixture for season seven - plus four weeks of finals - beginning with a Carlton-Collingwood opener at Ikon Park on Thursday, August 25.
Some people would nearly have a heart attack if they came across a funnel web, but Australia's most feared spider may hold the key to treating one.Queensland researchers will next year start human trials on a drug, containing a molecule from funnel web venom, which could prevent cell damage caused by heart attacks.
The Australian share market has ended higher after posting losses for the past three sessions with investors' seemingly resolved to continuing rate increases and ongoing market volatility.The benchmark S&P;/ASX200 index ended 72.
Injured NSW workers are facing longer waits for compensation, hard-to-live-off payments and are suffering mental trauma as they face an "abusive" system, a new report says.The report from the left-leaning think tank, the McKell Institute, commissioned by Unions NSW, has laid out the failures of reforms to the state's compensation scheme made a decade ago.
A major breakthrough has been made in the understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which may lead to more treatments for sufferers.More than 100,000 Australians live with IBD, a chronic condition with two main subtypes, Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis.
