Scoreboard of the third Twenty20  tri-series match between Australia and England at the  Melbourne Cricket Ground, here today.
England:
J Roy
c Carey b Richardson
8
A Hales
c Finch b Stanlake
3
D Malan
run out (Warner)
10
J Vince
b Tye
21
J Buttler  c Agar b Richardson
46
S Billings c Warner b Stanlake
29
D Willey
c Warner b Richardson 10
C Jordan
not out
1
Extras: (B-2, W-7)
9
Total: (for 7 wickets in 20 overs) 137
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-16, 3-34, 4-70, 5-113, 6-133,  7-137
Bowling: Richardson 4-0-33-3, Stanlake 4-0-28-2, Stoinis  4-0-18-0, Tye 4-0-29-1, Agar 4-0-27-0
Australia:
D Warner
c Buttler b Willey
2
D Short
not out
36
C Lynn
c Buttler b Jordan  31
G Maxwell
c Buttler b Jordan  39
A Finch
not out
20
Extras: (LB-2, W-8)
10
Total: (for 3 wickets in 14.3 overs) 138
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-51, 3-116
Bowling: Willey 3.3-0-30-1, Curran 2-0-23-0, Jordan 3-0-  26-2, Rashid 4-0-34-0, Dawson 2-0-23-0.

Melbourne, Feb 10 (AFP) Scoreboard of the third Twenty20

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All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan returned  from injury as Bangladesh Saturday made wholesale changes in  their squad for the two-match Twenty20 international series  against Sri Lanka.
At least five uncapped players -- wicketkeeper-batsman  Zakir Hasan, pace bowler Abu Jayed and all-rounders Ariful  Haque, Mahedi Hasan and Afif Hossain -- have been included in  the 15-man squad for the series, announced just after the  conclusion of a Test series.
Fast bowler Abu Hider has been recalled for the first  time since the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India, while Tamim  Iqbal and Mustafizur Rahman also returned after missing a  two-match Twenty20 series against South Africa in October.
Mominul Haque, Imrul Kayes, Liton Das, Nasir Hossain,  Mehedi Hasan, Shafiul Islam and Taskin Ahmed, who were part of  the Bangladesh squad for the South African T20s, have been  dropped.
Shakib will lead the side after missing out the just-  concluded Test series due to a finger injury.
Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 

Shakib returns in new-look Bangladesh T20 squad

Carlijn Achtereekte  made her Olympic debut a golden one, leading a Dutch podium  sweep in the women's 3,000-metre speed skating today at the  Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
The 28-year-old skated in the fifth of 12 heats, well  before the favourites, but her dazzling time of 3:59.21 held  up to win.
Ireen Wust, the 2006 and 2014 champion, was a narrow  second in 3:59.29 with Antoinette de Jong third in 4:00.02.
Achtereekte was third at the Dutch Olympic trials and  second in last month's European championships in 4:06.81, but  was a shock winner when it matter most.
Wust took her ninth Olympic speed skating medal, matching  the all-time record total of Germany's Claudia Pechstein and  tying the Dutch career record for Olympic medals by equestrian  rider Anky Van Grunsven.
But it was another near-miss for Wust, a four-time  Olympic champion who also settled for second in the 1,000,  1,500 and 5,000 at Sochi in 2014.
Wust missed out on becoming the first Dutch woman to  defend a Winter ..

Dutch medal sweep in women's 3,000m speedskating

Australia cruised to a seven-  wicket victory over England with more than five overs to spare  to remain unbeaten after three games in the triangular  Twenty20 series, here today.
The Australians restricted England to 137 for seven off  their 20 overs with paceman Kane Richardson taking three  wickets and then the home team knocked up the runs off just  14.3 overs.
A match-winning partnership of 65 between Glenn Maxwell  (39) and D'Arcy Short (36 not out), plus cameos from Chris  Lynn (31) and Aaron Finch (20 not out from five balls), got  Australia comfortably home.
The win ensured Australia will play in the tri-series  final in Auckland on February 21 with preliminary matches now  switching to New Zealand.
The game-defining sequence came when Maxwell and Short  accelerated the score from 65 for two at the end of the ninth  over to 104 for two after the 11th, 39 runs flowing over just  two overs.
"Our players have been in tremendous form coming off the  Big Bash League and they are ..

Australia hammer England by 7 wickets in T20 win

Britain's Charity Commission must  conduct a "full and urgent investigation" into Oxfam following  an alleged cover-up of its staff hiring prostitutes in Haiti  during a 2011 relief effort on the earthquake-hit island, the  prime minister's office said to.
"The reports of what is unacceptable behaviour by senior  aid workers in Haiti are truly shocking," a spokeswoman for  Theresa May said.
"We want to see Oxfam provide all the evidence they hold  of the events to the Charity Commission for a full and urgent  investigation of these very serious allegations."
The call came as the British charities regulator released  its own statement detailing Oxfam's previous disclosure of the  events, including that it characterised the misconduct as  "inappropriate sexual behaviour."
"Our approach to this matter would have been different  had the full details that have been reported been disclosed to  us at the time," the commission said.
It confirmed asking Oxfam to urgently provide fresh  ...

Oxfam faces fresh probe over Haiti prostitutes scandal

Iran denounced Israeli "lies" today  and said Syria had the right to "legitimate self-defence" in  response to air strikes launched by Israel after an alleged  drone incursion into its territory.
"Iran believes Syria has the right to legitimate self-  defence. To cover their crimes in the region, Israeli  officials are resorting to lies against other countries,"  foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told AFP.
Israel struck targets inside Syria on Saturday after  intercepting what it said was an Iranian drone entering its  airspace from Syria, which it labelled an "attack."
An Israeli fighter jet crashed under fire from Syrian air  defences.
That prompted Israel to unleash a dozen retaliatory  strikes on both Syrian and Iranian targets inside Syria.
"The allegations regarding surveillance by an Iranian  drone are too ridiculous for words," said Ghasemi.
Iran issued a joint statement alongside the other main  allies of the Syrian regime, Russia and Lebanese militant  group ...

Iran denies Israeli 'lies', says Syria acting in 'self-

The toll from a deadly 6.4-magnitude  quake in Taiwan rose to 15 today as rescuers searching for a  missing family of Chinese tourists discovered three more  bodies in a partially toppled building.
Scores of emergency workers combed the rubble at the foot  of the 12-storey Yun Tsui apartment block that was left  leaning at around a 50-degree angle by the quake, complicating  rescue efforts due to fears of an imminent collapse.
The three bodies and the last missing pair are believed  to be members of a family from Beijing who arrived in Taiwan  on Monday, authorities said.
They were staying in a second-floor room at a hotel in  the building in the eastern city of Hualien when the quake hit  the following night.
"(We) are digging from the fourth floor down and even  though the site is leaning at 45 degrees we are making an  all-out effort for the rescue," the Hualien fire department  said in a statement.
The bodies pulled from the site were of a 12-year-old  boy, an adult man and an ...

Taiwan quake toll rises to 15 as bodies pulled from rubble

The Philippines' famous white-sand  island destination Boracay is drowning in faeces and may need  to be shut down to protect the health of millions of visitors,  President Rodrigo Duterte has warned.
The fiery leader gave his brutal assessment of the  country's top tourist draw as he told hotels, restaurants and  other businesses on the tiny central island to clean up or he  would ban tourism there.
"I will close Boracay. Boracay is a cesspool," Duterte  told a business forum in his southern home city of Davao late  yesterday, according to an official transcript released by the  presidential palace today.
"You go into the water, it's smelly. Smell of what? Shit.  Because it all comes out in Boracay," he said.
Red-faced tourism department officials affirmed Duterte's  assessment today, saying it reflected worsening sewage  conditions on an island known globally for its pristine white  sands and crystal clear waters.
"It's a shame that Boracay, which has repeatedly been  recognised by .

Duterte slams top Philippine tourist island as 'cesspool'

At least 19 people were killed  and dozens injured when a double-decker bus toppled over in  Hong Kong today evening, police said.
Photographs on local media websites showed the bus lying  on its side with its roof torn off by a road near the town of  Tai Po in the northern New Territories.
Rescuers were attempting to reach passengers trapped in  the wreckage, although police were unable to say how many were  still inside the bus.
The dead included 17 males and two females, police said.
It was not immediately known what caused the accident.
Deadly accidents are rare on the southern Chinese city's  public transport system, which it promotes as one of the best  infrastructures in the world.
The city's worst road traffic accident occurred in 2003  when a double-decker bus collided with a truck and plunged  from a bridge, killing 21 people.
In 2008, 18 people were killed in another bus crash.
The safety of Hong Kong's waterways has also remained  under scrutiny since 39 people were killed 

At least 19 killed as bus topples over in Hong Kong

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today  said a Turkish military helicopter had been shot down during  Ankara's military offensive against a Kurdish militia in  northern Syria.
"A little earlier, one of our helicopters was shot down,"  Erdogan said in televised remarks without saying who was  responsible but vowing they would pay a "heavier price".  State-run news agency Anadolu said the incident happened in  the southern border province of Hatay.

Erdogan says Turkish chopper shot down in Syria operation

North Korean  leader Kim Jong Un's sister will watch the unified Korean ice  hockey team play their first Olympic match today, the South  Korean presidency said.
Kim Yo Jong, a powerful figure in the North, is the first  member of the ruling Kim dynasty to visit the South since the  1950-53 Korean war.
"Kim Yo Jong, 1st vice director of the Central Committee  of the WPK (North Korean Workers Party), will watch the match  of the unified women's ice hockey team," said South Korean  President Moon Jae-in's office in a text message.
The sister of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un attended the  Pyeongchang Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
Dressed in a black fur-collared coat, Kim Yo Jong was  later seen cheering for the team in the stands as they opened  the match against Switzerland.
Along with her were North Korea's ceremonial head of  state Kim Yong Nam, South Korean President Moon and IOC  President Thomas Bach.

North Korean leader's sister to watch joint Korean hockey team

Germany will no longer  lecture other European countries over their economies, the  next finance minister of the eurozone's richest nation said  today.
Olaf Scholz, of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that  this week struck a deal to reform Germany's so-called grand  coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel, said  Germany "doesn't need to dictate to other European states how  they run themselves".
"Mistakes have certainly been made in the past," Scholz  told Der Speigel magazine, an apparent reference to the policy  of his predecessor Wolfgang Schauble, who oversaw Germany's  oft-criticised massive trade surplus.
Germany's trading partners and international institutions  like the International Monetary Fund regularly urge Berlin to  spend and invest more to push up demand and indirectly boost  other economies.
German officials, however, say the trade surplus reflects  the strength of the "made in Germany" brand and insist there  is little they can do to influence the ...

Germany won't lecture EU economies: new finance minister

Scores of Thais today gathered in  defiance of a junta ban on protests to call for a return to  democracy, as public anger mounts over prolonged military  repression.
The ruling junta has kept a tight lid on dissent since  its 2014 coup by outlawing gatherings of more than five people  and ramping up use of a draconian royal defamation law.
But impatience with the generals has been building in  recent weeks and breaking through the surface in a series of  creative and increasingly bold protests.
The agitation has been fuelled by a spate of graft  scandals, including one that has ensnared the junta's No 2,  plus the postponement of elections the regime had promised for  November 2018.
Scores of people gathered on the pavement across from the  "Democracy Monument" in Bangkok's old quarter with banners  that said "Stop hanging on to power, stop postponing  elections."
"We want to get our democracy back," Sumittra Patprathun,  a middle-aged Bangkokian in the crowd, told AFP as activists  .

Scores defy Thai junta with rally demanding elections

North Korean leader  Kim Jong Un invited the South's President Moon Jae-in for a  summit in Pyongyang today, Seoul said, even as the US warned  against falling for Pyongyang's Olympic charm offensive.
The invitation, delivered by Kim's visiting sister Kim Yo  Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South's leader "at the  earliest date possible", said a spokesman for the presidential  Blue House.
An inter-Korean summit would be the third of its kind,  after Kim's father and predecessor Kim Jong Il met the South's  Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in 2000 and 2007 respectively,  both of them in Pyongyang.
Moon did not immediately accept the invitation. But the  prospect could sow division between the dovish leader, who has  long argued for engagement with the nuclear-armed North to  bring it to the negotiating table, and US President Donald  Trump, who last year traded personal insults and threats of  war with Kim.
Washington insists that Pyongyang - which is under  multiple sets of UN ...

Kim Jong Un invites S Korea's Moon to Pyongyang

IMF chief Christine Lagarde today  urged Arab countries to slash public wages and subsidies in  order to rein in spending, achieve sustainable growth and  create jobs.
Speaking at the one-day Arab Fiscal Forum in Dubai,  Lagarde welcomed "promising" reforms adopted by some Arab  countries, but insisted much more was needed to overcome  daunting economic and social problems.
Low oil prices are weighing on the finances of Arab oil  exporters, while importers are battling with rising debt,  unemployment, conflicts, terrorism and refugee inflows, the  International Monetary Fund's managing director said.
Almost all Arab countries have posted budget deficits  over the past few years and Arab economies grew at just 1.9  per cent last year, half the global rate, according to the  Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), which co-organised the event with  the IMF.
Yet Arab public spending remains very high, especially in  oil-rich Gulf states, where government expenditures exceed 55  per cent of gross ...

IMF chief urges Arab states to slash spending

Sweden's Charlotte Kalla  claimed the first gold of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but  the spotlight today was expected to fall on the unified Korean  hockey team.
Kalla won the women's skiathlon cross country race ahead  of Norway's Marit Bjoergen, preventing her from collecting an  unprecedented third straight gold medal in the event.
But Bjoergen still became the most decorated woman in  Winter Olympics history as she claimed her 11th medal. Third  came Finland's Krista Parmakoski.
The gold medal was one of five on offer on the first day  of full competition, in which the unified Korean women's ice  hockey team which make their debut against Switzerland.
The Korean squad have been written off as contenders in  the Olympic women's tournament.
But they symbolise the sense of rapprochement between the  two Koreas, highlighted at Friday's Olympic opening ceremony  when athletes from both sides of the heavily fortified border  marched together into the stadium for the opening ...

First gold goes to Sweden, Koreas in spotlight

The apparently random sequence  in which countries marched out at the opening ceremony of the  Pyeongchang Winter Olympics had many observers scratching  their heads, but it was indeed in alphabetical order -- in  Korean.
Greece emerged first into the arena on a sub-zero Friday  night, in line with tradition because that is where the Games  originated from.
But next to march, to much bewilderment among non-  Koreans, was the skeleton athlete Akwasi Frimpong, the flag  bearer for Ghana.
Compounding the confusion for many, Ghana were followed  by Nigeria, South Africa and then the Netherlands.
Organisers in South Korea clarified that none of this had  been a mistake and said the order was based on the Korean  alphabet, Hangul, which was developed in the 15th century to  replace Chinese characters.
Countries at the Olympics always enter the Games in  alphabetical order according to the language of the host  nation.
Last to march out at the curtainraiser were North and  South Korea -- ...

Korean alphabet trips up Olympic viewers

Detained book publisher Gui Minhai  has surfaced nearly three weeks after disappearing into police  custody in China, confessing wrongdoing and accusing his  adopted country Sweden of manipulating him like a "chess  piece".
It was unclear whether the Chinese-born Gui's statement  was made under duress, but video of his confession shows him  flanked by two police officers and a close friend said the  remarks were "not to be believed."
The Chinese-born Gui, 53, was arrested on a train to  Beijing last month while travelling with two Swedish diplomats  -- the second time he has vanished into Chinese custody in  murky circumstances.
Sweden, the European Union and the United States have  called for Gui's release, with Swedish Foreign Minister Margot  Wallstrom on Monday calling his seizure "brutal".
But Gui accused Sweden of "sensationalising" his case.
"I have stated that I do not want Sweden to continue to  sensationalise what has happened to me. But obviously, Sweden  has not stopped ...

Publisher detained in China 'confesses', blames Sweden

Canadian Prime Minister Justin  Trudeau called for better protection of workers "left behind"  by globalisation and technological development -- and said  North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations should take  this into account.
"The wave of technological innovation," particularly in  Silicon Valley, which Trudeau visited Thursday, "can be hugely  positive and transformative," he said yesterday during a  speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, near Los  Angeles.
"But we cannot allow it to sweep some people and their  families aside," he said, adding the issue must be discussed  as part of ongoing efforts between Canada, the US and Mexico  to revamp NAFTA.
Trudeau called for improved sharing of wealth and help  for people "whose livelihoods have been disrupted by global  economic shifts" -- adding he and US President Donald Trump  agree "too many people have been left behind."
"We need to collectively do a much better job of ensuring  the benefits of trade are shared 

NAFTA must protect workers left behind by global economy:

South Africa's political  impasse deepened today with no resolution to extended talks  over President Jacob Zuma's expected departure from office  after his own party called for him to resign.
Cyril Ramaphosa, the president-in-waiting, and the ruling  ANC party have said negotiations should be concluded within  days, but have given no details about how Zuma will be eased  out of power.
The stalemate has left South Africa's political scene in  limbo, with a series of public events cancelled this week  including the flagship State of the Nation address to  parliament in Cape Town on Thursday.
Zuma cleared his diary of weekend engagements, but deputy  president Ramaphosa is due to speak at a rally in the city  tomorrow to start a year of celebrations marking 100 years  since Nelson Mandela's birth.
February 11 also marks the day that Mandela was released  from jail in 1990 -- a key date in modern South Africa's re-  birth as apartheid white-minority rule crumbled.
Zuma and Ramaphosa will 

S Africa political deadlock as Zuma clings to power

Israel's military said today Iran  and Syria were "playing with fire" but that it was not seeking  an escalation after a confrontation resulted in large-scale  Israeli air strikes in Syria.
Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus made the  comments after today's confrontation, the most serious between  arch foes Israel and Iran since the start of the Syrian civil  war in 2011.

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