Melbourne, Dec. 4 : Top cricketers of Australia have said that they are ready to take on their Cricket Australia bosses over the issue of more pay and wanting less public exposure.

On the pay front, international and state players currently share in a quarter of all revenue, with Cricket Australia recording a total revenue of more than 146 million dollars in
2007-08, up 26 million dollars from a year earlier.

Melbourne, Dec 3 : Individuals who are proficient in reading and writing have good communication skills, as far as text messaging is concerned, says an Australian psychologist.

The report, which has been presented at the Australian Research Council Research Network in Human Communication Science conference in Sydney, overturns the commonly held view that texting is spoiling our spelling, according to researcher Dr Nenagh Kemp.

To reach the conclusion, Kemp, a psychology lecturer at the University of Tasmania, asked 55 undergraduates to read and write text messages using normal English and abbreviated text language, which she branded "textisms".

Melbourne, Dec 3 (ANI): Teachers Down Under have been told not to use red pen to mark schoolchildren''s work– because it’s too aggressive.

Queensland''s Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.

McArdle then tabled a Queensland Health document proposing "strategies for addressing mental health well-being in any classroom".

McArdle stated that the government should be concentrating on other needful issues rather than asking the teachers to get rid of red pen and use a different color for marking students.

Melbourne, Dec. 3 : Australian cricket team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris has dismissed speculation that captain Ricky Ponting''s career could be cut short by a wrist injury.

Ponting was visiting his surgeon Greg Hoy in Melbourne on Thursday for assessment of his right wrist, after he had a screw inserted in July to repair tissue and tendon damage.

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Kountouris as saying that the appointment had been planned six weeks ago. He said the pain Ponting was experiencing was standard after any type of surgery and was not severe enough to have caused him to miss a training session let alone consider being rested from any matches.

Melbourne, December 3 : Britney Spears, who turned 27 on December 2, heard the ‘World’s Sexiest Man’ Hugh Jackman sing ‘Happy Birthday’ for her before the singer blew out the candles on the cake.

The ‘Toxic’ hit maker received Jackman’s wishes, who also blew her a kiss, in a recorded video message after her live performance on ‘Good Morning America’ in New York – despite not having met the actor ever.

Melbourne, December 3 : Lindsay Lohan has been blocked from logging into her own Facebook account after the site’s administrator thought its user was ‘fake.’

The actress-singer revealed to her My Space fans that she was ‘shocked’ after she read the reason for the disabled sign-in process, reports News. com. au.