Melbourne, Mar 17 : Australian all-rounder Adam Voges has made the toughest decision of his cricketing career - choosing to attend his own wedding rather than play for Australia in their limited overs series in South Africa.

Voges had planned to get married on April 5, the same day of Australia''s second one-dayer against South Africa.

He asked Cricket Australia whether he could miss that fixture, fly back home for the wedding before rejoining the squad in South Africa.

Sydney, Mar. 17: Australian fast bowler Brett Lee may be taking all the required steps to get in shape for the forthcoming Ashes series against England, but according to cricket columnist Peter Roebuck, he is fighting a lost cause, given the extraordinary performances of the current crop of bowlers doing duty in South Africa.

Sydney, Mar. 17: Australian Government has urged Pakistan’s main opposition party, the PML-N, to forget political differences and combat the “common enemy of terrorism.

“It''s quite clear that whatever political differences the political parties may have in Pakistan the common enemy is terrorism ... it is a threat to Pakistan''s very existence,” The News quoted Australia’s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, as saying.

Smith said that Australia would do everything to root-out terrorism from Afghanistan- Pakistan border area, as a ninth Australian soldier was killed fighting insurgents in Afghanistan.

Melbourne, Mar 17: One of life's big questions: who has the best lips, Angelina Jolie or Scarlett Johannson?, has been finally answered – with the help of “scientific” precision.

And the winner is…. Italian actress and fashion model Monica Belluci who scored perfect marks for "lip attractiveness".

An American biometrics specialist has developed lip-reading software, which uses a scientific formula to rate lips on a 10-point attractiveness scale.

Sydney, Mar. 17: Spin doctor Terry Jenner has appealed to Australia''s national cricket selectors to include Victorian leg spinner Bryce McGain in the squad for the Cape Town Test, though the latter doesn’t expect to play.

"I can''t see any point in not playing him. It wouldn''t make sense to not at least find out about him. If he can''t get a game when Australia is 2-0 up in the series, then they are not going to play him in England,” Jenner said.

London, Mar 17: Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl raped his daughter up to 3,000 times in his home-made dungeon, it has emerged.

Yesterday, the full horror of Fritzl’s vile crimes were laid bare in a courtroom.

Although he admitted imprisoning his daughter, Elisabeth, for 24 years and repeatedly raping her, he rejected murder charges.

A jury was also told that Elisabeth was forced to deliver her own babies in a rat-infested dungeon with nothing but a dog-eared book on pregnancy to help her, reports The Daily Star.