With the four-Test series against India round the corner, Shane Watson will look to touch up his batting skills at international level following his inclusion in Australia’s 13-member one-day side for the next two matches against the West Indies.

It started with a traffic ticket. It ended in political exile.

Ending months of speculation, scientists today confirmed that the skeleton found beneath a car park here indeed belongs to 15th-century King Richard III, the most notorious monarch in English history.

Troubled star Lindsay Lohan says she gets bored when she isn’t working. The 26-year-old actress will star in erotic thriller The Canyons and during its filming she was delighted to be back working on movies, reported Sunday Times magazine.

A Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban has made her first video statement since she was nearly killed, saying she is recovering. Speaking clearly but with a slight stiffness in her upper lip, 15-year-old Malala Yousefzai said that she was “getting better, day by day.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold key talks with leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to discuss the peace process and prevent a Taliban resurgence when foreign troops withdraw from the war-torn country in 2014.

Former fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Charlie Turner will be inducted into the Australian Cricket hall of fame at this year’s Allan Border Medal ceremony tomorrow night here.

Pakistan crashed to their lowest Test total when they were bowled out for 49 by a South African pace barrage on the second day of the first Test at the Wanderers Stadium on Saturday.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard denied that her government was in chaos, after the resignation of two of her most senior ministers prompted a Cabinet reshuffle ahead of a national election.

Malala Yousafzai, the shot Pakistani schoolgirl-turned-icon of Taliban resistance, and ex-Eastern bloc activists are among those known to be nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, as the deadline expired today.