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Written by Rahul on 02 April 2009
Athens, April 2 (DPA) Flights to and from Greece were to be grounded for several hours and vessels were to remain anchored Thursday during a nationwide 24-hour strike to protest against the government’s economic polices.
Under the slogan ‘employees should not pay for the crisis’, the walkout was the second nationwide protest against the conservative government since riots broke out in December, triggered by the country’s bleak economy and police shooting of a teenager.
Air traffic controllers were to walk off the job for four hours from 0900 GMT until 1300 GMT, forcing the cancellation of dozens of international and domestic flights.
The strike has been called by the country’s private sector federation GSEE and public sector union ADEDY, which together represent more than half of the country’s workforce of 5 million.
Newly privatised Olympic Airlines said it cancelled a total of 140 domestic and international flights, and rescheduled 11 flights to and from London, Frankfurt, Milan, Istanbul, Alexandria and Bucharest.
The private airline Aegean said it cancelled 24 flights and rescheduled another 30.
The air traffic controllers are demanding the hiring of extra staff and an improvement in their health care benefits.
The strike was also affecting all state-run schools as teachers stayed away, and all state services, including banks, ministries, tax offices, municipal buildings and state-owned power utilities as they shut their client services departments for the day.
Hospitals were functioning with emergency staff only, and a 24-hour news blackout was due to be imposed as print and broadcast journalists refused to show up for work.
All ferry services to and from the Greek islands were suspended as vessels remain anchored at harbours across the country while train, bus, tram and trolley services are also expected to stop operations for several hours.
Greece’s unions are protesting against the government’s recent pension and labour reforms, which raise the retirement age and cut back benefits as well as privatisations and tax-raising measures.
The unpopular reforms have ignited an almost daily spate of bomb and arson attacks on government buildings and businesses.
The government recently announced a public sector wage freeze and one-off taxes to those earning over 60,000 euros a year in an effort to fill badly needed coffers.
The strike follows weeks of riots across Greece in December by youths whose economic future is bleak in a country with a high unemployment rate and low wages.
Unemployment is over 7 percent, and nearly 20 percent of Greeks live below the poverty line, earning less than 600 euros ($775) a month. Labour unions said approximately 4,000 people lost their jobs in March.
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Written by Rahul on 18 March 2009
Melbourne, Mar 18 (ANI): An Aussie teenager was dragged to court after his baggy trousers fell so low that he exposed himself – just as a female police officer was walking past.
According to the Sunshine Coast Daily, Trent Joseph Wroe, 19, was fined for 250 dollars for indecent exposure at a night out in Mooloolaba on February 28.
A female police officer was walking past Wroe when his pants fell down, and she arrested him for public nuisance, reports the Courier Mail.
While refuting the charges, Wroe claimed that the trousers were too big because he borrowed them from a friend.
Magistrate Tom Killeen has advised Wroe to wear a belt in future.
Wroe has requested the court to convert his punishment to community service so he could “give something back”. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 13 March 2009
London, Mar 13 (ANI): Credit cards, trainer shoes, social networking sites, and GPS technology have made it to the list of things that have changed the world.
To mark the National Science and Engineering Week, a panel of 20 experts from the British Science Association have drawn up a list of the top 10 things that have changed the world, reports The Telegraph.
Here is the list in full:
1.GPS Technology
Originally developed as a navigation system by the United States military, the Global Positioning System is now used in cars, aircraft and boats.
2.The Sony Walkman
In 1979 Sony spawned the era of wearable technology with its iconic personal stereo. The Walkman quickly changed listening habits and became hugely popular as jogging culture took the 1980s by storm.
3.The Bar code
The boring sets of black and white lines can now be found on almost every single item bought from a shop. Norman Woodland first developed an early form of the bar code in 1949 by combining ideas from movie soundtracks and Morse code to help him speed up store checkouts. And now stores can instantly access product details, prices and stock levels with a sweep of a laser.
4.TV Dinners
Convenience food really took off in the 1970s and transformed the way families ate meals, the high-street, the countryside and national health. Traditional family dinners around the table disappeared and pre-packaged “ready meals” eaten on the sofa became the norm.
5.PlayStation
Although games consoles had been around for some time, Sony’s PlayStation took gaming out of spotty teenager’s bedrooms and into adult living rooms when it was released in 1994.
6.Social Networking
Everyday, more than three billion minutes are spent by computer users on Facebook. Along with other social networking sites such as MySpace and Twitter, it has completely changed the way we interact and who we interact with.
Millions of people now communicate tiny details of their professional and personal lives by poking, twittering and posting. Online social networking has allowed people to rekindle friendships with friends they lost touch with years ago.
7.Text messages
Text messaging has created a new vocabulary and new grammar that is almost incomprehensible to those who do not use it. LOL and FYI have now passed into everyday English.
8.Electronic Money
Credit cards gave us greater convenience for spending, greater security and the ability to spend money anywhere in the world.
9.Microwaves
Microwaves – electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging between 1 millimetre and one metre – are used by mobile phones, wireless broadband internet and satellite television.
They also gave us a new way of cooking food while the US military has developed a “less-than-lethal” weapon that can blast victims with a heat wave.
10.Trainers
Trainers changed fashion and the feet of generations ever since the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company first used a new manufacturing process to meld rubber to cloth in 1892.
With the help of celebrity endorsements by sporting superstars such as basketball legend Michael Jordan, trainers turned from being purely practical clothing for sport into a fashion item. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 08 March 2009
London, Mar 8 (ANI): Agyness Deyn has inherited her grandma Agnes Cook’s off-the-wall style, according to the supermodel’s mum.
“My mum was a real beauty and she was really into fashion. She used to work as a window dresser at C and A in Manchester. She was a teenager during the war when there wasn’t much money about so she used to try to do different things with her clothes,” The Mirror quoted Lorraine, as saying.
She continued: “She used to wear her cardigan back to front so that the buttons fastened down the back, just so she’d look a bit different.
“Both Agy and her sister Emily are really into fashion. They have their own style, and like to look a bit different. But my mum was trying to do that in the 1940s!”
Agyness, 26, is the darling of fashion designers and glossy magazines the world over. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Dubai, Mar 5 (ANI): An Indian teenager has admitted to have escaped death at the hands of a Facebook gang called ‘Death Room’, which tortures rich school age kids and extorts money from them.
The boy claimed that it was his cheap mobile phone that saved him from the members of the horrendous gang.
The gang members assumed he came from a middle class family so they would not gain by extorting money from them.
The ‘Death Room’ gang consisted of three people of unknown nationalities and two Pakistanis.
Sharjah Police arrested the gang members last week, reports The Gulf News.
The gang used to loiter around expensive schools and targeted children from affluent families.
According to the police, the victims were usually between the age group of 12 to 15 years, and the gang members are between the ages of 20 and 25.
The Indian teenager also said that the gripping pictures and footage of young boys being tortured on Facebook by the gang members were quite popular among school age kids. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
London, Mar 4 (ANI): Kevin Bacon has told Broadway bosses not to offer him a role in the stage revival of his hit movie musical ‘Footloose’, as he’s just “not interested”.
The actor played Ren McCormack in the original 1984 film, which traced the story of a Chicago, Illinois-bred teenager who moves to a small town that has banned dancing and rock music.
Later, in 1998, the movie was turned into a musical, which opened in New York.
Recently, there’s been talk of a new production, but Bacon is in no mood to star in it.
“I’m not interested in doing that. They did one, and that’s enough for me,” the Daily Express quoted him as telling the New York Daily News. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
New Delhi, March 3 (ANI): Paris Hilton has revealed she has just five close friends, thanks to those who have previously ripped her off her trust.
The millionaire-heiress, who rose to prominence after her sex tape leak by her then beau Rick Salomon, insisted on having learnt her lessons with people, reports China Daily.
She said: “Honestly, I only have about five really close friends. My sister Nicky is one of them, although she is different from me. She’s shy and prefers to stay behind the scenes.”
The stunning blonde continued: “When I was a teenager people abused my trust and it really hurt my feelings. But now it’s happened so much I’ve learned who to trust and who not to.
“From different experiences you start to learn what kind of people you want in your life.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 03 March 2009
London, Mar 1 (ANI): Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse at the age of six.
Jordan also revealed how she was once photographed by a convicted paedophile as a teenager.
“Worse things happened to me when I was younger than that,” News of the World quoted her as saying.
In an interview to Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, the 30-year-old model choked with emotion as she revealed that she was sexually attacked in park when she was six years old.
“In a park, but yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never really . . . Oh my God, what’s the matter with me?” she said as her voice shook with emotion.
She was playing hide and seek in bushes with a school friend, while her mum chatted with a friend on a nearby bench.
A man appeared and promised to buy the two girls an ice cream. The pervert then lined up the two terrified girls and exposed himself. He also touched the girls.
Katie was terrified by the attack but too afraid to scream. She felt she should do what the attacker said.
Meanwhile some older children saw what was happening and scared the attacker off. Her mother immediately called the police but the man quickly disappeared and was never caught.
She also talked about her ordeal at the hands of the photographer her mum had hired to help launch her modelling career at 13.
He turned out to be a pervert who insisted she pose in her underwear. Photos of her were later found plastered over the walls of his home. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 01 March 2009
London, Feb 27 (ANI): A Brit teenager has been sacked from her job after she called it boring on Facebook.
Kimberley Swann, 16, was sacked with “immediate effect” after she posted the comment about working in Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Clacton, Essex, as an administrator.
“They were just being nosey, going through everything. I think it is really sad, it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so petty,” Sky News quoted her as saying.
But boss Steve Ivell revealed that Swann had posted the comments about her job and invited other staff members to read them.
“Had Miss Swann put up a poster on the staff notice board making the same comments and invited other staff to read it there would have been the same result,” he explained.
“Her display of disrespect and dissatisfaction undermined the relationship and made (her job) untenable.
“We thought that Miss Swann’s best interests would be served by working for a company that would more suit her expectations,” he added.
Brendan Barber, from the TUC union, said that employees need to protect their privacy online and employers should be less sensitive to criticism.
“Most employers wouldn’t dream of following their staff down the pub to see if they were sounding off about work to their friends,” he said.
“Just because snooping on personal conversations is possible these days, it doesn’t make it healthy,” Barber added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 26 February 2009
Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): With Padma Lakshmi’s svelte figure, it would be difficult to imagine that she loves food. However, the pretty lady has confessed her love for burgers and maintains that she works really hard on her body.
“I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza. As a teenager, [my friends and I] would always go have burgers. I would scarf them down!” People magazine quoted the Top Chef host, as saying.
When asked how the food and fashion icon stays fit, Lakshmi says she works hard to maintain her figure.
“I work out all the time! I don’t just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don’t,” she said.
The stunner is currently putting her passion for meat into a new commercial for Hardee’s Bacon Western Thickburger.(ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 24 February 2009
London, February 24 (ANI): Cancer-stricken Jade Goody has experienced hair loss before, when as a teenager she had smoked crack to get close to her drug-addict mum Jackiey.
The 27-year-old, who lost all her hair after undergoing chemotherapy in her battle with cervical cancer, revealed she had turned to drugs when she was 18 in a desperate plight to get noticed.
“I can’t believe I’m admitting this but a voice in my head said to me, ‘I might as well do a bit of crack myself. I might as well go the same way as Mum. At least then we’d be together’,” the Sun quoted her as saying in her autobiography, Jade – Catch A Falling Star.
“I walked into the lounge, where she was smoking crack. I took some of it, put it in a Rizla paper to make a joint and I smoked it.
“All the time I had tears streaming down my face. I was willing her to stop me and to promise me she’d never do it again. But she didn’t.
“I’d foolishly thought that if she could see what it looked like – and if she thought that her own daughter was about to go to the same dark place she was in – she’d put a stop to it.
“I couldn’t even smoke it all, it made me feel too ill. I ran to the toilet, stuck my fingers down my throat and made myself sick. I was shaking and crying. Then I ran to my room and shut the door.
“I felt like utter s**t. I bashed my head repeatedly against the wall as hard as I could, I pulled my hair out of my head until my scalp was red raw and I pinched my skin until it went purple,” she added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 February 2009
London, February 21 (ANI): John Travolta and Kelly Preston have set up a charity foundation in memory of their late son.
The heartbroken couple had bade their 16-year-old Jett a final goodbye after the teenager died from a seizure during a family holiday in the Bahamas on January 2.
Jett, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two, had Kawasaki Syndrome, a rare condition that can lead to heart disease.
And now, the pair is determined to help other kids suffering from diseases with The Jett Travolta Foundation, reports the Daily Express.
A statement on their website said: “The Foundation shall endeavour to use its resources specifically to assist and provide relief to children with vision, hearing, mobility, communication, behavioural learning impairments or other special medical, environmental, health or education needs.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 18 February 2009
Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): British actress Kate Winslet credits her toned physique to “a wing and a prayer”, insisting she’s “too busy” to even think about exercising.
The Oscar nominee, who has struggled with weight since she was a teenager, insists she hasn’t been slimming down for the big ceremony.
When asked if she was dieting, Winslet said, “N.O. (I) absolutely do not. I’m very sort of relaxed and vocal about these things. I have not done a stitch of exercise since October. I literally have not had the time.”
“I’m just going to eat normally, I’m not going to make cuts.
“If I’m keeping it together it’s by a wing and a prayer. I just want to enjoy this,” she added.
The 33-year-old actress is winning accolades for her role in The Reader, and is tipped to win the Best actress at the Oscars.
She has already scooped two awards in Golden Globes and walked away with Best actress gong at the Baftas. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 12 February 2009
Washington, February 12 (ANI): John Travolta’s case involving an alleged 25-million-pound extortion attempt targeting the actor following the death of his 16-year-old son Jett may get fast-tracked.
The Hollywood heartthrob had informed the Bahamas police claiming blackmailers threatened to publish a photo of the teenager as he lay struggling for his life, and make “false claims” unless they were paid “millions of dollars”.
Cops had hauled in driver Tarino Lightbourne and charged him with conspiracy to commit extortion and attempted extortion.
Pleasant Bridgewater, an island attorney and lawmaker and Obie Wilchcombe, the island’s ex-Minister of Tourism and a friend of the celebrity couple, had also faced probe for their alleged involvement.
And now, Bahamian prosecutors were said to be in the process of fast-tracking the case for trial before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas in Nassau.
The prosecution allegedly held plans to present a voluntary bill of indictment to Magistrate Carolita Bethel, also in Nassau.
“It’s a time-saving device. The full preliminary inquiry is like a trial,” People magazine quoted a source as saying.
“The Supreme Court is usually booked up months in advance. But they will give it top priority. They could substitute out another case,” the source added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 12 February 2009
Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): She might have all the luxuries of the world now, but pop sensation Lady GaGa was so poor as a performer on the New York City club scene that she used flammable hairspray as a substitute for costly pyrotechnics.
The 22-year-old singer, who worked in Manhattan’s late night venues as a teenager, has revealed that the techniques she used to put on a show on a tiny budget.
“I started playing out in clubs when I was 15 and was really hustling the New York scene,” Contactmusic quoted GaGa, as telling British magazine Now.
“I used to squirt hairspray on stage and set fire to it because we had no money for pyrotechnics or stuff like that, so we played Black Sabbath songs and did our fire display. Looking back, that was a little dangerous, but I’m still here,” she added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 11 February 2009
New York, Feb 11 (ANI): The average teen spends one hour and 40 minutes each week surfing the Internet for pornography, according to new UK research.
This mathematics equates to 87 hours a year spent surfing for porn.
A further hour and 35 minutes is spent looking at dieting and weight loss websites, the Daily Mail reported.
The study of 1,000 youngsters, which found the average teenager was online 31 hours each week looking at soft pornography, plastic surgery, dieting, family planning and emotional support, was conducted by CyberSentinel.
“The alarming thing about this research is that it shows that teenagers are obviously exploring all sorts of topics as a result of modern-day pressures,” the New York Daily News quoted Ellie Puddle, Marketing Director of CyberSentinel, as saying.
“And for some reason they find it easier to go online to conduct their research than asking mum and dad for advice,” she added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 10 February 2009
Kishtwar/Doda, Feb 10 (ANI): Young girls and women of Jammu and Kashmir, who are surviving forced marriages to militants, allege that the ultras and their associates married young girls at gun point.
Sixteen-year-old Fatima Bi of Kishtwar district narrates how the militants abducted her from her house four years ago.
Fatima today has a child to take care of. She says that Sher Khan, the then divisional commander of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), a Pakistan militant group and his associates tortured her for eight days until she gave into their demands and agreed to marry Hashim, a HuJI worker.
The teenager however was able to escape from the hideout of the militants and sought help of police after Sher Khan had been arrested.
“There was this one Bilal, then another one named Ansari, there was a third man also, I don’t remember his name. They used to keep me in a room and beat me with iron rods. They used to tell me that if I don’t get married according to their will and wish, I would have to face dire consequences. I used to tell them I want to get married to a man I chose for myself. Sher Khan used to head these people,” said Fatima Bi.
Fatima says that there are many such incidents taking place and need to be checked by the authorities.
“Sher Khan used to abduct girls from our region on a regular basis. He got another girl from my area married to a militant,” added Bi.
Fatima’s in not an isolated case. Shehnaz of Doda district, other victims of forced marriage has a similar tale to tell.
“These militants they are dreadful people. They come to our village, sit and eat here, utter bad words for women, abuse them. But now the police is with us. I am sure we can also hit back at them,” said Shehnaz.
She also said that the future of girls like her is in dark. Many have children to take care of. The militant husbands are arrested and the society sees them as outcast.
The police in the region say that they are trying to tackle the issue. They say that many a times, like in the case of Fatima Bi, cases of wives running away are registered and it is only later that they get a version of a forced marriage from the girls.
“The girl has given a very different story. She has given a nerve shaking story in terms that she was forcibly married to a person against her will when she was a minor girl. It was done by a Sher khan and his associates who were running a HuJI organisation in this area,” said Haseeb Mughal, superintendent of police, Kishtawar district.
Police officials say that the militants get married in order to mingle with the locals. By Tahir Nadeem Khan (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 09 February 2009
London, Feb. 9 (ANI): In an Email to her Spanish friend just days before her death on a beach in Goa, British teenager Scarlett Keeling wrote that a group of men had tried to gang rape her in Goa.
Scarlett’s body was found washed-up on North Goa’s Anjuna beach semi-naked almost a year ago. She was drugged, raped and killed while her family left her in Goa with friends, and they holidayed along the Indian coast in February last year.
Scarlett’s mother, Fiona MacKeown, has now revealed that her daughter sent messages painting a chilling picture of the underworld she had become caught in, The Telegraph reports.
MacKeown said, “My daughter’s last messages to a friend she had met in Goa paint a distressing picture of what was happening to her in her last few days and have made me question my decision to leave her behind.”
In her shocking email Scarlett wrote she took a cocktail of drugs at a rave and was later shown hardcore pornography by a group of men who then “all took it in turns tryin 2 rape me”.
MacKeown who has been accused of neglect said, “I already knew Scarlett had been raped before she was murdered. I now have to live with the knowledge that she was also horribly assaulted three days earlier. It’s hard to put into words how shocking it was to read that [email].”
MacKeown said that another of Scarlett’s emails suggests she was being groomed as a drug mule.
“The message to a friend 16 days before her death said that Scarlett planned to travel to Finland and Thailand with her 25-year-old Indian boyfriend, Julio Lobo. She clearly had plans I didn’t know about. She says she’d be making money.”
“I have since learnt there’s quite a strong drug link between the countries she talks about. It makes me wonder whether she was being primed to be a mule,” she wonders.
Indian police believes that the men who committed the attempted gang rape could be her murderers. Officers from India’s Central Bureau of Investigation are planning to interview MacKeown about the emails before arresting the suspects.
Meanwhile, two Indian men are awaiting trial on charges of raping and drugging Scarlett and leaving her to die. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 07 February 2009
London, Feb 7 (ANI): Ethiopian Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed will be free to roam in Britain even though he has no right to reside here.
British Ministers are powerless to put him under house arrest because the US has dropped all charges against him.
The MI5 and anti-terror cops will be forced to watch him round the clock at a huge cost to tax- payers, The Sun reported.
Mohamed, 30, was given exceptional leave to remain in the UK in 2000, which expired in 2004. Now, government insiders admit that he would get permission to stay again even though he does not qualify.
Last night the Conservatives demanded answers from Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague wrote: “If Mohamed were to be returned now he would presumably have to reapply for leave to enter the country on his arrival. Can you confirm if this is the case and if preparations for lodging an application have been made?”
Miliband has admitted to MPs that Mohamed will be back in the UK “soon”. Insiders predict it will be this month.
The Sun reported that how Mohamed confessed to getting top-level terrorist training at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. He later insisted his confession was extracted under torture.
Mohamed left his family in the US to come to Britain on his own as a teenager. He lived on benefits and became hooked on drugs.
In 2000 he converted to Islam and in June 2001 he flew to Afghanistan. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 07 February 2009
Melbourne, Feb.6 (ANI): Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke’s desire to spend as much time as possible with his fiancee Lara Bingle is creating heart burn within the team, and rumor mills are agog with reports of him engaged in scraps with mates over the issue.
Reports suggest that so deep are the fissures within the squad; that questions are now being asked whether Clarke is up to the job of leading the side, a position that he has been wanting for most of his cricketing life.
According to Daily Telegraph and Fox Sports, his altercation with opener Simon Katich in the SCG dressing room, reported on the back of today’s newspaper, is the latest incident that questions his credentials for the job.
It came after he gave teammates the hurry-up during the rendition of Under The Southern Cross I Stand. He had an appointment he wanted to keep with Bingle.
The Australian team is fracturing because of ongoing catfights among wives and girlfriends. A blue between wives and girlfriends on the 2005 Ashes tour splintered team harmony, the unspoken undercurrent to Australia’s stunning series loss.
In India this summer, a tour when Australia needed its vice-captain to get in and help pull the team up, rumblings instead went around about Clarke’s absence. He was having prolonged breakfasts and lunches with Bingle. He spent the night at the Allan Border Medal kissing Bingle like a love struck teenager.
His distraction highlights his immaturity for the captaincy job, and the fact it is coming at the cost of performance exacerbates it.
So his disrespect for team protocol following the SCG Test, to hurry up the celebration so that he could leave and join his girlfriend, has angered many.
It destroys the dressing room culture that has been so vital to Australia’s ethos.
As every recent player is not allowed to forget, it was on the back of this restoration in pride – Under The Southern Cross I Stand – that Australia rebuilt itself from the horror years of the 1980s.
Clarke is media-savvy, with the cool looks and the hot girlfriend, the tattoos, the slick image and flash car. Together, the package is near perfect for the job.
Former Test captains are openly appalled by Clarke’s desire for Ricky Ponting’s job. They believe it is disloyal to Ponting, some even believing he should be sacked as vice-captain because of it.
After a particularly long day in the field against South Africa in Melbourne, for instance, he was asked why Australia didn’t bowl Katich.
“Ask the captain,” he said, “I don’t make the bowling changes.”
A weak-willed response, it was seen by former greats as a deliberate affront to Ponting.
Little instances all, together they suggest Clarke has not shown he is ready for the role.
Still enough remains of the guy who was in a dust-up at Northies, with former Parramatta halfback Tim Smith, to cause concern.
The guy who labelled West Indian Chris Gayle a “second-class citizen”, which had enough racial undertones to provoke Gayle to action. They had to be separated.
In the Australian culture, the Test captaincy is second only in esteem to the office of Prime Minister.ome put it above that, and not because it pays better.
Clarke is the boy most likely, there’s no doubt.
But as Australia faces a sensitive decision as to wives and girlfriends for the upcoming Ashes tour, it might finally be time for him to lead the way. (ANI)
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