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READ MORE 12:42 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Not many job candidates get the chance to duel face-to-face with their prospective boss, but that’s more or less exactly the scenario that confronted fast bowler Chadd Sayers in Adelaide when bowling to the Australia captain Steven Smith in a Sheffield Shield match last week. Sayers now believes a striking spell to defeat Smith should hold him in good stead for selection discussions during an Ashes summer in which there is only a slim chance of the hosts’ pace-bowling line-up remaining unchanged throughout the five Tests. On day one of the floodlit Shield fixture between South Australia and New South Wales, Sayers gave Smith a thorough working over, squaring him up repeatedly with deliveries moving away from the bat and then pinning him lbw in the first innings by running one back the other way towards middle stump. Smith’s anger at his dismissal was plain to see, but Sayers hopes the episode will

READ MORE Almost four years after his wife ran screaming from her home engulfed in a “ball of fire” a Sydney man has been charged with her murder. Parwinder Kaur, 32, died in December 2013, a day after suffering full thickness burns to 90 per cent of her body at her Rouse Hill home in Sydney’s northwestern suburbs. Police arrested Ms Kaur’s 37-year-old husband at a home in Rouse Hill on early Wednesday morning and he has since been charged with one count of murder. He is due to face Parramatta Local Court later in the day. Superintendent Rob Critchlow described the investigation into Ms Kaur’s death “dogged”. Ms Kaur’s family has expressed its “overwhelming sense of relief” at an arrest. “They strongly felt that the death of Ms Kaur was a matter that required investigation and that someone was responsible for it,” Supt Critchlow told reporters. “The process was very painstaking, it took a long time because it was so complex.” Hampering the efforts of Strike Force Whyalla detectives in

READ MORE The Traditional Owners of Uluru have announced today that the culturally significant site will be closed to visitors from October 26, 2019. Today the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management unanimously voted to close the site to climbers. Chairman and senior Traditional Owner Sammy Wilson said the decision to close the climb came after extensive consultation. “Over the years Anangu have felt a sense of intimidation, as if someone is holding a gun to our heads to keep it open. Please don’t hold us to ransom,” he said in an address to the board today.  “More recently people have come together to focus on it again and it was decided to take it to a broader group of Anangu. They declared it should be closed. This is a sacred place restricted by law.”                                                                 The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board of management made the decision today to close the climbing path on Uluru, with figures showing only 16 per cent of v

READ MORE Senate President Stephen Parry will resign from his post after the UK Home Office confirmed he was a British citizen. Senator Parry revealed on Tuesday he may be a dual citizenship as his father was born in the UK and he confirmed this was the case the next day. He said he would be submitting his resignation as president and senator for Tasmania to the Governor-General on Wednesday. “With a heavy heart I inform you that I have received advice from the British Home Office that I am a British citizen by virture of my father’s birthplace, thereby being a dual citizen under the provisions of the Australian Constitution,” Senator Parry said in a statement. “Because my departure is rapid and an unexpected event, I will not have the usual opportunity to address you [my colleagues] in the Senate one last time. “I wish to thank all of you as colleagues, many of whom I regard as good friends – from all quarters of the chamber – for your support and confidence in me.” Senator Parry

READ MORE Queensland police believe a body found in Brisbane’s southeast belongs to missing woman Naima Hassan. Members of the public found the 27-year-old’s body at the Sovereign Waters foreshore at Birkdale about 5.20pm on Tuesday. Police established a crime scene and guarded it overnight as investigators await the results of a post-mortem examination and scientific testing to confirm the woman’s identity and what caused her death. Officers are conducting further searches of the area on Wednesday. Ms Hassan was last seen by family members on Saturday morning. She was later spotted at the BP at Wellington Point, while her car was found at the Wellington Point Reserve on Sunday.

READ MORE Witnesses have told of the moments an attacker drove a ute down a busy bike path in New York , killing eight people.  SBS News understands some students at a nearby high school filmed the fatal attack as they watched it unfold about 3pm local time on Halloween. Students at  Stuyvesant High School  told SBS News they were advised to ‘take shelter,’ and some took to their phones to film the chaos unfold. Elizabeth Chernobelsky, 17, said she was preparing for swim practice when she heard other students say they had heard gunshots. “We had a lockdown for about three hours,” she said. “They told us nobody could enter or leave and all students had to remain in classrooms. “I was standing in front of a window and saw two body bags and all the police… I knew something very serious had happened right away.” The attack suspect,  identified in some media reports as Sayfullo Saipov , remains in hospital under police guard and is expected to survive. He was shot by a police officer afte

READ MORE “I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!” Trump tweeted. The president’s attempts at banning travellers from several mainly Muslim nations have been met with successive legal challenges. His administration announced last week that it would resume accepting refugees after a 120-day ban, though arrivals from 11 “high-risk” countries, most of them home to Muslim majorities, will still be blocked. I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017

READ MORE Actress Rose McGowan, who has emerged as a distinguished voice vocalization out opposite passionate attack in Hollywood, says a months-old aver for her detain on drug possession charges is an try to overpower her. McGowan is one of some-more than a dozen women who have indicted film writer Harvey Weinstein of passionate attack or passionate harassment. The transgression drug assign stems from an review of personal effects that tested certain for narcotics after being left behind on a United moody nearing during Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Jan 20, according to police. “Are they perplexing to overpower me?” McGowan pronounced on Twitter on Monday. “There is a aver out for my detain in Virginia. What a bucket of horses**t.” Are they perplexing to overpower me? There is a aver out for my detain in Virginia. What a bucket of HORSESHIT. — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 30, 2017 The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department prono

READ MORE The father of a Sydney lady who died after being doused in petrol and set land scarcely 4 years ago has been arrested. Parwinder Kaur, 32, died in Dec 2013 after pang full density browns to 90 per cent of her physique during a Rouse Hill house. Police arrested a woman’s 37-year-old father on Wednesday morning during his Rouse Hill home and he’s now being questioned. Superintendent Rob Critchlow, from The Hills Police, told a press discussion on Wednesday morning a male will shortly be charged with one count of murder. Superintendent Rob Critchlow articulate during a press conference. “We have worked tirelessly to accumulate justification of what indeed occurred. The review has been perfected and currently we can announce that we’ve arrested a 37-year-old male from Kellyville and he is now aiding detectives with their inquiries and will shortly be charged with one count of murder and seem before a Parramatta internal justice this afternoon,” Superintendent Critchlow said. “Th

READ MORE The event between detainees and authorities during Australia’s offshore immigration centre on Manus Island is a “stain on Australia’s conscience,” according to Greens Senator Nick McKim. Senator McKim perceived a debate of a apprehension trickery on Tuesday after it strictly sealed and told SBS News a conditions was “absolutely shameful”. “I walked around that centre yesterday and one of a questions we was seeking myself was how have we mislaid a dignified compass so badly in this country? And how have we depressed so far?” he said. In an progressing talk with AAP Senator McKim called Immigration Minister Peter Dutton a “racist monster, and a sequence abuser of tellurian rights”. Papua New Guinea’s supervision says force will not be used to mislay refugees from Australia’s estimate centre on Manus Island after fears there would be assault as it shuts.   Australia’s offshore immigration centre during Lombrum Navy Base was strictly sealed on Tuesday though some-more than 600

READ MORE Electricity has so far been cut to half the buildings at the Manus Island detention centre as refugees refusing to leave nervously await their future. Australia’s offshore immigration centre at Lombrum Navy Base was officially closed on Tuesday. However authorities face a stand-off with detainees unwilling to go and locals are reportedly blocking the construction of new refugee accommodation. The more than 600 refugees and asylum seekers who remain inside the compound in Papua New Guinea have little water left and their electricity generators have either been switched off or let run out of fuel. The last food packs were distributed to them on Sunday night. Papua New Guinea’s government says force will not be used to remove refugees from Australia’s processing centre on Manus Island after fears there would be violence as it shuts. Tamil refugee Srirangan told AAP on Tuesday refugees were concerned about dehydration but feared for their lives as well, with troops from PNG e

READ MORE Nearly 100 years to the minute after the Australian light horsemen began their famous charge on the plains, the outskirts of Beersheba were again blanketed in dust. This time though there was no gunfire nor violent gallop. Instead, a group of 100 men and women – a mix of enthusiasts and descendants of the brave 800 mounted troops who captured Beersheba on October 31, 1917 – retraced their movements at a more reflective canter. They began their ride from the very spot the original assault started, as the sun faded away behind Be’ersheva River Park about 8km outside the town centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and more than 2000 people watched on, cheering and clapping as members of the Australian Light Horse Association rode toward them. The re-enactment was billed as the main event of the day, which started with a joint Australian-New Zealand national service at the Beersheba War Cemetery in fro

READ MORE The suspect exited his rental vehicle holding up two fake guns, before being shot by police and taken into custody. The incident happened around 3:05 pm (1905 GMT) close to schools as children in America’s largest city celebrated Halloween. Loved ones mourned the first deaths from a terror-linked attack in New York since September 11, 2001. It was also the city’s first such incident since a pipe bomb explosion in September 2016 in Chelsea, lightly wounding 31 people. An American of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, was convicted of terrorism over that attack earlier this month.   The city, which has frequently been on high security alert since the 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers, is America’s financial and entertainment capital, with a population of 8.5 million. America must not let Islamic State jihadists return to or enter the US after they are beaten overseas, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, hours after a deadly New York attack. President Trump described th

READ MORE The suspect exited his rental vehicle holding up two fake guns, before being shot by police and taken into custody. The incident happened around 3:05 pm (1905 GMT) close to schools as children in America’s largest city celebrated Halloween. Loved ones mourned the first deaths from a terror-linked attack in New York since September 11, 2001. It was also the city’s first such incident since a pipe bomb explosion in September 2016 in Chelsea, lightly wounding 31 people. An American of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, was convicted of terrorism over that attack earlier this month.   The city, which has frequently been on high security alert since the 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers, is America’s financial and entertainment capital, with a population of 8.5 million. America must not let Islamic State jihadists return to or enter the US after they are beaten overseas, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, hours after a deadly New York attack. President Trump described th

READ MORE The husband of a Sydney woman who died after being doused in petrol and set alight nearly four years ago has been arrested. Parwinder Kaur, 32, died in December 2013 after suffering full thickness burns to 90 per cent of her body at a Rouse Hill house. Police arrested the woman’s 37-year-old husband on Wednesday morning at his Rouse Hill home and he’s now being questioned. Superintendent Rob Critchlow, from The Hill Police, told a press conference on Wednesday morning the man will soon be charged with one count of murder. “We have worked tirelessly to gather evidence of what actually occurred. The investigation has been painstaking and today we can announce that we’ve arrested a 37-year-old man from Kellyville and he is now assisting detectives with their inquiries and will soon be charged with one count of murder and appear before the Parramatta local court this afternoon,” Superintendent Critchlow said. Evidence shown during the inquest into the death of Sydney woman Parwin

READ MORE Democrats and Republicans at the Senate crime subcommittee hearing fired questions for much of two hours at Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, who said that in retrospect the company should have done more. “In hindsight, we should have had a broader lens. There are signals we missed,” Stretch said under questioning from Democratic Senator Al Franken about how the company missed political ads bought with Russian money. Stretch called the Russia-based ads “reprehensible” for their political divisiveness. The hearing marked the first time tech executives have appeared publicly before US lawmakers on the Russia matter, and the tone represented a dramatic shift in fortunes for Silicon Valley, which for years has grown accustomed to favorable regulatory treatment in the United States.   Lawyers for Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google also faced questions at the hearing about how Russians used their services, but Facebook drew the bulk of senators’ ire because of its uniqu