Sydney, Dec 15 : Injured Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark can learn from the experiences of former state and national teammate Stuart MacGill as he faces the prospect of elbow surgery that may bring his career to an end.

MacGill twice went under the knife to have bone spurs removed from his bowling elbow and returned to international competition on both occasions, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Sydney, Dec 15: An Aussie woman based in Sydney has now claimed that Brit chef Gordon Ramsay slept with her during a visit Down Under.

According to New Idea magazine, Julie Vidovic, 42, revealed that she had met 42-year-old Ramsay when he came for a visit to Sydney in June, and that he told her that he was no longer married.

"He told me when we met that he was separated, and he and his wife were living separate lives," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as telling the magazine.

Sydney  - Australia aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5 per cent from 2000 levels with a maximum target of 15 per cent by 2020 if an effective global climate-change pact is signed, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government said Monday.

The target falls far short of the 25- to 40-per-cent emissions reduction scientists and conservationists have been calling for to avert a climate change catastrophe.

Sydney - A 23-year-old man arrested by the New South Wales state police Friday is part of an international art scam allegedly involving Israeli nationals, officials said Saturday.

A resident on the central coast complained that a man visited him at his home, introduced himself as an Israeli university student and tried to sell counterfeit artwork, an official statement said.

According to the police, the fake artwork is part of a global scam, allegedly involving Israeli nationals, which has been operating in Europe, the US and Australia since
2000.

Sydney, Dec 12 : Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland has asked the players to remember the significant breaks of previous years, and promised to manage the workload of the international players during a hectic schedule.

Three postponed tours to Pakistan have been added to an already crammed itinerary and there have been requests for a reduction in off-field commitments to compensate.

Sydney, Dec. 12 : A Land and Environment Court (LEC) in Sydney have given conditional approval on Thursday for a 1,200-student Islamic school to be built, despite it being rejected twice by the Bankstown Council.

The Daily Telegraph quoted NSW Greens MP John Kaye as saying the first problem was that the college would generate a lot of traffic and have a severe impact on residential streets. The second is the land was obtained by deception.

He claimed that the State Government was told it was going to be a residential development.