Sydney, Mar 6 : Sri Lankan batsman Thilan Samarweera, who sustained the worst injuries among Lankan cricketers during a terrorist attack on team bus near Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday, is happy to be in Colombo and will resume playing in June.

Samaraweera, who scored successive Test double-centuries in Pakistan, was admitted to a private hospital in Colombo with a bullet injury.

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said the decision to remove the bullet was made to protect Samaraweera's long-term playing career.

Sydney, Mar 5 : With fast bowlers Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus doubtful to participate in the second cricket Test against South Africa commencing from March 6, Australia has needed to shore up its fast-bowling stocks by calling up yet another new boy to their squad.

Australian Cricket Team led by Ricky Ponting began their tour of South Africa without injured Test pace regulars Stuart Clark and Brett Lee. Fast-bowling all-rounder Shane Watson was also on the sick list.

Sydney, March 6 : A group of scientists in Sydney have achieved a breakthrough in using adult stem cells to re-grow damaged muscle tissue in mice, and thereby moved a step closer to realising a potential new therapy for incurable diseases like muscular dystrophy.

Peter Gunning, the head of the Oncology Research Unit at the University of NSW, has revealed that the study involved mice engineered to have an injured skeletal muscle.

He, however, said that the concept could also be applied to human diseases like lung disorders, chronic liver disease, and types I and II diabetes.

Sydney  - A Melbourne teacher found guilty Thursday of having sex with a 15-year-old pupil was sentenced to 150 hours of community work.

Noel McNamara of the Crime Victims Support Association decried the sentence handed to 25-year-old Nazira Rafei as too lenient.

"I think they seem to be mainly in most cases female judges who hand down these sentences and think that it is OK for female teachers to interfere with young boys," he said. "We don't know what the end result is going to be with this lad."

Sydney  - A 4.5-metre saltwater cr

Sydney  - For some, driving fast gives the same sort of buzz as swimming where there might be sharks. The danger is part of the appeal.

Get unlucky and lose a limb in a car crash and you're just an accident statistic, but lose one to a shark and your broken body is the talk of the town. The risk to the swimmer is amplified by publicity while the speedsters remain blasé because of its absence.