Sydney, Mar 19 : India on Thursday defeated West Indies by eight wickets, but the result was not good enough to ensure them a place in Sunday’s final of the ICC Women’s World Cup. India will now face Australia on Saturday to determine the third and fourth places.

For making to the final, India needed to beat the West Indies and hoped that New Zealand would go down to Pakistan and England beat Australia in their respective Super Six matches.

Sydney, March 19 : A new study has determined that an Australian native plant is using chemical warfare to prevent its bright red flowers from being eaten, by using some quantity of cyanide.

According to a report by ABC News, the finding challenges conventional thought that flowers evolved as a way for plants to attract birds and animals that help them cross-pollinate.

Sydney, Mar. 19 : Australia shattered England''s unbeaten record, but still failed to make Sunday''s Women''s Cricket World Cup final.

The defending champion and host nation produced their best performance in six matches, after earlier losses to New Zealand and India proved fatal to their chances of winning a sixth title, reports The Australian.

Australia became the first team in the current tournament to bowl England out, dismissing them for 161 in the 50th over.

It was England''s first loss in 21 one-day internationals, but it was a hollow victory for Australia, who knocked off the modest target in 34.5 overs.

Sydney, Mar 19: Sri Lankan batsman Thilan Samaraweera is undergoing counselling to deal with the trauma of nearly losing his life in the attack, which rocked the cricket world to its core

Samaraweera says his career is far from over and has not ruled out the possibility of returning to play in Pakistan, where he and teammates came under fire two weeks ago in the first terrorist attack against a cricket team.

Sydney  - Good health, freedom of choice, political liberty, civil rights - these, along with high income, make Australians the most prosperous people in the world, found a study by the Dubai-based Legatum Institute ranking countries according to their prosperity.

The privately-funded think tank noted that there was no direct correlation between wealth and happiness. While it was true that income was a good indicator of wellbeing in very poor countries, earnings did not link with happiness in rich countries.

Study after study has downplayed money as a predictor of how we feel about our lives. It's a finding that comes as no surprise to Melbourne lawyer and academic Mirko Bagaric.

Sydney, March 18 : An ecologist has said that large herbivores like elephants need to be introduced in regions such as Australia and South America, which would help save threatened native plants.

According to a report by ABC News, Professor Chris Johnson, of James Cook University, Far North Queensland, Australia, ecologist has called for the introduction of elephants into South America and the creation of Pleistocene parks across the world.

"The re-introduction of large herbivores to the Americas would help restore ecosystems and save threatened native species," he said.