Light drizzle in Adelaide delayed play after the opening session of the day-night second Test between Australia and Pakistan on Friday.
The weather forced the teams off the field five minutes early for tea with Australia on 70 for one, and the covers remained on the wicket an hour after they were due to resume.
Saturday is forecast to be fine, although more rain is due on Sunday.
David Warner is not out 45 and Marnus Labuschagne is on 18.

Rain delays play in Australia-Pakistan Test

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Luxury German carmaker BMW on Friday said it would build fully electric models of its Mini cars at a new plant in China, as it kicked off a joint venture with Chinese partner Great Wall Motor.
Some 160,000 cars a year are set to roll off the assembly line at the planned factory in the city of Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu province, which will eventually employ 3,000 people.
Construction of the plant is slated to last from 2020 to 2022, BMW said in a statement.
Both partners are together investing 650 million euros ($715 million) in the project.
Alongside BMW's all-electric Mini, the Chinese company will also build some of its own brand models at the plant.
"This is another important step towards the Mini brand's electrified future," the statement said.
The BMW group had already announced it would start manufacturing the first fully electric version of the iconic compact car at its Mini plant in Oxford, England this month.
Those first Mini E models are set to come to market early next ...

BMW to build electric Mini in China

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an ardent conservative who worked to forge a stronger military alliance with the United States, died on Friday at the age of 101, an official at his son's office said.
In office for five years from November 1982 to November 1987, Nakasone was known for trying to transform the nation defeated in World War II into a full-fledged member of the West during the Cold War era.
His efforts to strengthen security ties with Washington came at a time of intensifying trade friction with the United States, the world's biggest economy.
Describing Washington as "the most important partner for Japan", he built a friendship with then President Ronald Reagan.
Officials at the office of his son Hirofumi Nakasone, who is a member of the Japanese parliament's upper house, confirmed the ex-premier's death to AFP, with one of them saying he died Friday, without offering further details.
He broke post-World War II taboos in Japan by deciding to provide ...

Japan ex-PM Nakasone who boosted ties with US dies at 101

Chile's government met for the first time with organized labor on Thursday, aiming to find a way out of the social unrest that has rocked the country for more than a month.
Members of President Sebastian Pinera's conservative government met with representatives of the Social Unity Board, a collective of social and labor groups who were behind many of the calls to protest.
Among the collective's members is the Workers' United Center of Chile, the most powerful union in the country, the teacher's union and the "NO+AFP" group, which calls for an end to Chile's private pension system.
"We have made it very clear that we are not prepared to negotiate behind people's backs, that is not our spirit, and that's it's the government that must now provide answers to proposals that have been made," Mario Aguilar, president of the teacher's union, said after the meeting.
The country's worst crisis in decades has seen furious Chileans take to the streets to protest social and economic inequality, ...

Chile govt meets with unions in bid to end crisis

Giant spinner Rakheem Cornwall starred as the West Indies thrashed Afghanistan by nine wickets early on day three of their one-off Test on Friday.
Cornwall took a match haul of 10 wickets as the West Indies bowled out Afghanistan for 120 on day three and reached their target of 31 to seal the win in just over an hour of the first session in Lucknow.
It was a reality check for Afghanistan, who were awarded Test status in 2017 and won their first games in the five-day format earlier this year.
Skipper Jason Holder claimed all three Afghan wickets to fall in the morning as the Windies needed just 7.1 overs to see off Afghanistan after they resumed the day on 109 for seven.
John Campbell made an unbeaten 19 and sealed the win with a boundary after losing his opening partner Kraigg Brathwaite for eight off Amir Hamza.
But it was the Cornwall-led spin attack that dismantled Afghanistan on day two as they collapsed from 53 for no loss to 109-7.
The 26-year-old Cornwall, who hits about 140 ...

Cornwall takes 10 as West Indies crush Afghanistan in just over two days

David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne steered Australia to 70 for one in the opening session of the day-night second Test against Pakistan in Adelaide Friday, justifying skipper Tim Paine's decision to bat first.
On an overcast afternoon and with the floodlights on from the first ball, Warner was not out 45 and Labuschagne on 18 in ominous signs for the visitors, after the pair both made centuries in the first Test in Brisbane.
Pakistan need to win to square the two-match series, but the odds are heavily stacked against them, having lost 13 consecutive Tests in Australia.
Over the years, taking wickets in Australia has been a challenge for Pakistan and they shuffled their bowling attack for the pink-ball Test.
Veteran seamer Mohammad Abbas, who tormented Australia when he took 17 wickets in two Tests in the UAE last October, returned in place of Imran Khan while 16-year-old pace sensation Naseem Shah was rested.
That meant a debut for 19-year-old medium-fast right-armer Muhammad Musa, ..

Dangerous Warner frustrates Pakistan in second Test

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Renewed calls to hit the streets came after Beijing and city leader Carrie Lam refused further political concessions despite a landslide victory for pro-democracy parties in local elections last week

More protests coming, say Hong Kong activists as police end campus siege

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Protesters in smoke-covered Sydney kicked off a fresh round of global protests against climate change on Friday, with activists and schoolchildren picketing the headquarters of bushfire-ravaged Australia's ruling party.
Hundreds of people gathered at the conservative Liberal party's offices, as protesters in several Asia-Pacific cities heeded the call to action from 16-year-old climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg.
The protests have taken on extra urgency in Australia -- the country's southeast has been devastated by hundreds of damaging bushfires in recent weeks.
The protesters -- brandishing placards that read "You're burning our future" and chanting "we will rise" -- turned out as Sydney was again enveloped in toxic smoke caused by the fires that have blanketed the city for much of the last month.
Six people have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the crisis, which scientists say has been worsened by rising temperatures.
Drought and unseasonably hot, dry and ...

Global climate protests kick off in smoke-covered Sydney

Tom Latham's unbeaten hundred and his century stand with Ross Taylor laid a solid foundation for New Zealand before rain brought an early end to day one of the second Test against England in Hamilton on Friday.
Latham was on 101 when the rain swept in just three deliveries after the resumption of play from the tea break.
It was the left-handed opener's 11th century and lifted him to equal sixth on the New Zealand century-makers list headed by Kane Williamson with 20.
Williamson, however, was off his best this innings when he was dismissed for four in a rocky start for New Zealand after Jeet Raval was removed for five.
But from two for 39, Latham and Taylor put on 116 for the third wicket when Taylor went for 53 to have New Zealand three for 155.
All three wickets were to catches by England captain Joe Root at first slip.
Ben Stokes, at second slip, did not have such safe hands and dropped Latham on 66.
Adding to Stokes' worries, he felt pain in his left knee after bowling two overs ...

Latham ton puts New Zealand in solid position against England

South Korea's central bank on Friday cut its growth forecast for this year to two percent, which would be the weakest rate in a decade as the economy is battered by trade disputes.
The world's 11th-largest economy is highly dependent on international commerce but is grappling with the fallout of a prolonged China-US trade dispute and embroiled in a spat of its own with neighbouring Japan.
The Bank of Korea cut its 2019 growth forecast from 2.2 percent to two percent, governor Lee Ju-yeol, told reporters, also trimming its prediction for next year to 2.3 percent from 2.5 percent.
The two percent figure would be the slowest expansion since 2009, when the country posted 0.8 percent growth in the wake of the global economic crisis.
In a statement the BOK said exports were facing continuing "sluggishness", while domestic consumption growth had also weakened.
The numbers bring the BOK's forecasts into line with the International Monetary Fund.
The US-China trade war has heightened global ...

S Korea cuts growth forecast to lowest in decade

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an ardent conservative who worked to forge a stronger military alliance with the United States, has died at the age of 101, local media said Friday.
In office for five years from November 1982 to November 1987, Nakasone was known for trying to integrate the nation defeated in World War II as a full-fledged member of the West during the Cold War era.
He poured his efforts into strengthening security ties with the US at a time of intensifying trade friction with the world's biggest economy, building a first-name friendship with America's then president Ronald Reagan.
In his inaugural speech in 1982, Nakasone said Japan's basic foreign policy is to become "a member of the free world led by Europe and the United States," and described the US as "the most important partner for Japan.

Ex-Japan PM Nakasone dies at 101

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un supervised Thursday's test of what it called a "super-large multiple launch rocket system", Pyongyang's state media said Friday, hinting that it could be the last in that series.
Pyongyang fired what Seoul described as "unidentified projectiles" on Thursday -- the Thanksgiving holiday in the US -- South Korean officials said, as nuclear talks between the North and the United States remain deadlocked.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the weapons were ballistic missiles which represented "serious defiance" of the international community -- Pyongyang is banned from such launches under UN Security Council sanctions over its nuclear and missiles programmes.
North Korea's KCNA news agency released pictures of a smiling Kim attending the launch wearing a black leather trenchcoat, being applauded by fur-hatted troops.
It also showed an image of one of the rockets ascending into the evening sky in clouds of flame from a four-barrelled truck-mounted ...

Trenchcoats and rockets: Kim supervises N Korea weapons test

"It's like getting stabbed," a tourist exclaims as he plunges into the three degree Celsius (37 Fahrenheit) water, all under the intrigued gaze of a group of penguins.
All around Half Moon Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, blocks of ice of all sizes float by on a calm sea, their varying forms resembling weightless origami shapes.
To reach the Antarctic destination the 58-year-old Norwegian, Even Carlsen, travelled 14,000 kilometres (8,700 miles), and spent thousands of euros.
Mostly indifferent to the bipeds donning neon-coloured windbreakers, wildlife abounds in the deafening silence of the icy landscape.
All around are penguins, as awkward on land as they are agile in water. Massive and majestic whales slip through the waves, and sea lions and seals laze in the sun.
Antarctica, a land of adventure without rulers, is "like the heart of the Earth," according to Marcelo Leppe, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute.
He said it expands and contracts like a beating heart, while ..

In Antarctica, tourists swim among penguins

Jurgen Klopp is preparing to embark on a frantic run of fixtures with fears over the fitness of Fabinho after the midfielder limped out of Liverpool's Champions League draw against Napoli.
The 26-year-old Brazilian has emerged as one of the unsung heroes of Klopp's team, who have a comfortable eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League.
Fabinho suffered an ankle injury during Wednesday's 1-1 Champions League draw with Napoli, a result that leaves the reigning champions needing a point from their final group game at Salzburg to guarantee progress.
Klopp had been looking for a victory against the Italians, to ensure that at least one of his fixtures during this chaotic run could be treated as a dead rubber.
But the Liverpool manager was left with graver concerns when Fabinho limped off early.
Fellow midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum said an injury to Fabinho, signed from Monaco in July 2018, would be a "big blow", with Liverpool involved in four competitions in December.
But he ...

Liverpool fret over Fabinho injury as fixture pile-up looms

Chile's round of the 2020 world rally championship has been axed, the latest high-profile event cancelled in the wake of violent unrest in the troubled South America nation which has left 23 people dead.
"It's with great sadness that we have cancelled the scheduled race, it's official," said Mauricio Melo, the president of Chile's motorsports federation, on Thursday adding that security measures could not be guaranteed.
The Rally of Chile had been set for April 16-19, the same month that a referendum on a new constitution takes place.
Chile is currently in the grip of its worst social crisis in three decades.  Furious Chileans have since October 18 been protesting social and economic inequality, and against an entrenched political elite that comes from a small number of the wealthiest families in the country, among other issues.
As well as fatalities, the crisis has led to around 2,000 injuries, including some 280 people who suffered eye damage from shotgun pellets.
Elsewhere in the ..

Rally of Chile axed as deadly unrest grips country

An unbeaten century to Tom Latham and support from Ross Taylor steered New Zealand to a solid position after a rocky start to the second Test in Hamilton on Friday.
From being 39 for two, New Zealand reached the end of the second session on day one at 173 for three after Latham and Taylor both received let-offs which proved costly for England.
Latham brought up his 11th Test century driving Joe Root to the boundary in the last over before the interval to end the session on 101.
He had been dropped on 62 when an edge flew through the hands of Ben Stokes at second slip and went through to the boundary.
Taylor, eventually dismissed for 52, had his anxious moment on 25 when he was rapped on the pads by Stuart Broad and given out.
After conferring with Latham, Taylor appeared to believe there was a ball direction issue and sought a review.
TV umpire Bruce Oxenford, however, overturned the decision because unbeknown to the batsman there was a faint edge, which was picked up by the ...

Latham, Taylor lead New Zealand fightback in England Test

Juventus and Inter Milan return to their duel at the top of Serie A after midweek European successes, with Napoli carrying the momentum of a 1-1 draw at Liverpool as they look to snap a seven-game winless run and climb up the table.
Serie A leaders Juventus are at home to 14th-placed Sassuolo on Saturday after ensuring they will finish top of their Champions League group with a 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid in Turin.
The eight-time reigning Serie A champions are unbeaten this season and are one point ahead of Inter Milan, who kept their European ambitions burning with a 3-1 win at Slavia Prague.
Juventus have a perfect home record against Sassuolo with six wins in as many games.
"Right now, we are only showing flashes of what we feel we can achieve and we would like to show more consistently," said Juve coach Maurizio Sarri.
Cristiano Ronaldo has returned after a slight knee problem, giving Sarri a selection dilemma with Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain in top form.
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Juve, Inter return to Serie A duel as Napoli try to snap winless run

A world-renowned rock climber, US national Brad Gobright, fell to his death while climbing a sheer rock face in northern Mexico, authorities said.
Gobright, 31, and fellow American Aidan Jacobson, 26, were climbing a route known as the Shining Path in the northern state of Nuevo Leon on Wednesday when they fell, the state's emergency response agency said in a statement on Thursday.
Witnesses said the men had finished climbing the 900-metre summit and were rappelling back down when the accident occurred.
Jacobson landed on a rock outcrop, but Gobright bounced off and fell another 300 metres to his death, they said.
"Jacobson suffered lesions on his right ankle and various parts of his body. He was treated at our base," the statement said. Gobright "lost his life after falling around 300 meters."
The late rock climber was known for his gravity-defying solo ascents with no ropes.

Famed US climber Gobright falls to death in Mexico

Brazil on Thursday released revised statistics showing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest surpassed 10,000 square kilometres in the year to July 2019, the highest in more than a decade.
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said last week that satellite data showed 9,762 square kilometres were cleared of trees in the 12-month period, an increase of 29.5 percent.
This week's revised statistics released by the INPE show the increase was even greater than thought: a 43 percent jump in deforestation in the world's largest rainforest, for a total loss of 10,100 square kilometres in the 12 months to July. That's against a loss of 7,033 square kilometres between August 2017 and July 2018.
The deforestation is the largest since 2008, when 12,287 square kilometres of the Amazon were logged in a 12-month period.
Previous data showed clearing in the Amazon nearly doubled in the first eight months of this year, compared with the same period in 2018, to 6,404 square kilometres.
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Revised data shows deforestation in Brazil Amazon at decade high

Sudan's new authorities on Thursday ordered that the party of ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir be dissolved and all its properties be confiscated, heeding the call of protesters whose campaign led to the leader's overthrow.
Bashir and his Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) had ruled the northeast African country since June 30, 1989 before a nationwide protest movement resulted in him being deposed him earlier this year.
The country's ruling sovereign council and the cabinet led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok made the decision to dissolve the party, issuing a law titled "Dismantling of the regime of 30th June 1989".
"The National Congress Party is dissolved and its registration is cancelled from the list of political parties in Sudan," the decree said, adding that a committee would be formed to confiscate all its properties and assets.
The dissolution of the party was not revenge against the country's former rulers, Hamdok wrote on Twitter. "This decision is not revenge, but it ...

Sudan's new authorities dissolve ex-leader Bashir's party

A small airplane crashed in a wooded area on the north shore of Lake Ontario in eastern Canada on Wednesday evening, killing all seven people on board, Canada's transport safety agency said on Thursday.
The US-registered single-engine Piper PA-32 plane was travelling from Toronto's Buttonville Airport to Kingston, Ontario when it went missing at around 5 pm local time (2200 GMT).
Emergency services, including police on all-terrain vehicles and a military search and rescue helicopter, were dispatched to locate the downed plane, which was found just short of its destination in an area that is hard to reach due to thick brush.
All seven people on board, including the pilot, died in the crash, Transportation Safety Board spokesman Alexandre Fournier told AFP.
The government agency sent a team of investigators to gather evidence on the cause of the crash.
They were busy throughout the day "taking pictures of the wreckage, looking at the condition of the engines and the general condition of 

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