Melbourne, Mar 14 : Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is happy to bowl part time bowler Simon Katich in occasional short spells as he did on the final day of the second Test when his team needed to end the resistance from South Africa's lower order.

Reluctant Katich is happy to bowl. And, in the process he helped win the second Test and the series.

Ponting threw Katich the ball in Durban and the opening batman took three wickets. The pair had appeared to be involved in a strange standoff until then, FOX Sports reported.

Sydney - Australian police charged an Austrian with drug offences Friday after she allegedly attempted to smuggle methamphetamines through Melbourne airport.

Sydney, Mar. 13 : A brilliant spell by England spinner Laura Marsh against Pakistan ensured the top position for the team in Group B of ICC Women''s World Cup.

Off-break bowler Marsh took 5-15, in her ten overs, as England coasted to an eight-wicket victory over Pakistan here at the North Sydney Oval, The News reports.

The Pakistan's women team also qualified for the Super Six stage with a third position in Group B.

Melbourne, Mar 13 : It seems Kylie Minogue is planning to take her relationship with Spanish model Andres Velencoso to the next level.

The pop princess is bringing her boyfriend home to meet her parents, reports The Herald Sun.

The 40-year-old singer has been dating Velencoso, 31, since October and the pair even spent the New Year together in the French Alps.

She even met his parents in Barcelona in January.

Melbourne, Mar 13 : Singer Dannii Minogue has revealed that she was actually bullied by the British press to be thin like her sister, Kylie.

"I was 19 when I moved to London and the British press put a huge amount of pressure on me - they said I was too fat because I wasn''t the same size as my sister," News. com. au quoted Dannii, as telling Who magazine.

Dannii revealed that she found it uncanny as to why people were bothered about her body, as she felt comfortable in her own skin.

"And you go, well, funny about that because we''re two different people. I definitely felt bullied, but that''s just the size I was," she said.

Melbourne, Mar 13 : A man who was accused of breaking into an adult shop has pleaded guilty to stealing blow-up dolls for sex.

Adam Troy Rosberg, 24, made headlines around the world for smashing his way into the Laneway Adult Shop off Spence St twice last December, having sex with blow-up dolls, and discarding them in an alley.

But, on March 12, he pleaded guilty in Cairns Magistrates'' Court to two break-ins at the adult shop, and two break-ins and an attempted break-in in early January at the Sapphire Bar.

He worked at the bar as a chef at the time, and believed he had been underpaid.