Sydney, Mar. 20 : Glenn McGrath is an Australian cricket bowling legend but the word is he''s a mug punter extraordinaire.

The McGrath Foundation is hosting a lunch for 900 at the Sydney Turf Club''s big autumn racing carnival day at Rosehill Gardens, where Sydney Confidential will also share a marquee with Myer.

McGrath will captain a betting team against his former teammate, the more racing savvy Mark Waugh, in the TAB''s Pink Punting Purse event, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Sydney, March 20 : A man has claimed that Alexander the Great, whose tomb has been missing for nearly 2,000 years, could be buried in Broome in Western Australia.

Tim Tutungis told ABC News that he first heard about the rumor from his old friend, Lou Batalis.

"We just got onto the subject of Alexander The Great's tomb, and he said, `They'll never ever find it, no matter where they look, because Alexander the Great is buried in Broome, in Western Australia'," Tutungis said.

Sydney, Mar. 20 : White Ferns coach Gary Stead has demanded that his side impose themselves on England with the aggressive style that got them within sight of their second World Cup women''s cricket title.

New Zealand enter their fourth World Cup final on Sunday as underdogs against the form side of recent years, who racked up 17 consecutive wins in completed one-day internationals until yesterday''s defeat to Australia which had no bearing on the decider.

Sydney  - A former Australian Supreme Court judge was sent to jail Friday for telling a Sydney court that a dead woman was behind the wheel of his car when it was snapped by a police speed camera.

Marcus Einfeld, 69, would serve at least two years for perjury after failing to evade a 77-Australian-dollar (50-US-dollar) speeding fine for the January 2006 traffic offence.

The millionaire lawyer and human rights activist was described by his defence lawyer as a "beacon of light, a living treasure and a man of honour."

Sydney  - If you fancy Matt Wright's job, you'll need a helicopter pilot's licence, a willingness to work alone in the wilds of Australia's far north and nerves of steel.

Wright makes a living catching crocodiles considered a danger to humans and shifting them to more isolated places.

A recent customer was a cattle station owner worried by a reptile that at 850 kilograms and 5.6 metres weighed more than a Fiat 500 and was longer than a Bentley Continental.

Sydney - A second Australian soldier has been killed this week fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, the Defence Force announced Thursday.

The soldier was trying to defuse a roadside bomb when it exploded.

"We are devastated another soldier has been killed so soon after the death of Corporal Mathew Hopkins," Defence Force chief Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said.

Hopkins was killed on Monday in an exchange of fire with the Taliban.