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Sydney - An Australian circus performer aboard 17-metre poles set a world record for stilt walking Sunday in Adelaide.

National champion Roy Maloy succeeded in walking the requisite five steps on stilts the height of a four-storey building.

The stilts weighed nearly 60 kilograms, and it took Maloy 11 attempts to get moving.

Sydney, Nov 1 : Senior batsman of Pakistan cricket team Younus Khan has said that cricket in Pakistan would be destroyed if foreign team do not tour the country.

In an interview to an Australian newspaper, Younus Khan said that Australia did not tour Pakistan since 1998 for security reasons.

They refused to participate in an important event like the Champions Trophy and insisted to shift the series to neutral grounds.

These decisions are going to be causes of destruction of cricket in Pakistan.

Sydney - An Australian passenger jet returned to Darwin 30 minutes after take-off because drunken passengers aboard the Singapore flight refused to behave, Jetstar said Saturday.

Sydney - An Australian circus performer will climb aboard 17-metre poles in an attempt to break the world record for stilt walking, news reports said Saturday.

National record-holder Roy Maloy will take off on stilts the height of a four-storey building.

"To build the tallest stilts ever, it's not just one piece of wood, which I made the Australian record stilts out of, you need to make them out of three pieces of very lightweight aluminium that are all welded together like a scaffold," Maloy told national broadcaster ABC in Adelaide.

Sydney, Oct 31 : Australian team is angry that Indian opener Gautam Gambhir was not charged with a more serious offence following his mid-pitch collision with all rounder Shane Watson during the third Test.

Match referee Chris Broad charged Gambhir with a level-two offence of not conducting play “within the spirit of the game as well as within the laws of cricket” after a dust-up with Watson during which he raised his elbow into the all-rounder’s chest, a reflex the batsman later claimed was an accident.

Watson was charged with a level-one offence under the same section of the players’ code of conduct for not playing within the spirit of the game, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.