Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson produced a devastating display of swing bowling as the hosts roared back into Ashes contention in Perth.
Johnson came into the Ashes last summer as the most highly rated fast bowler in world cricket, with expectations high that English conditions would help him find the swing that makes him so dangerous.
Leading into the Ashes, these two Tests against the West Indies might give the selectors a snapshot of the future, but I would be amazed if Steve Harmison's name isn't pencilled into the teamsheet for the first Test in Cardiff in a few months time.
Worried that the TSA would confiscate her cremated remains from my carry-on, I packed the urn containing my mother's ashes into a suitcase filled with gifts for my Chinese relatives and entrusted the lot to United Airlines.
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The Rt Hon Lord Bonomy will lead the inquiry into policies for handling ashes and cremated remains, which will result in new legislation.
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His father died in September 2004, and Manglik attended the funeral, watching his dad's ashes sink into the same stretch of river where the elder Manglik had swum as a boy.
The loss pushes Australia down to fifth in the Test rankings, one place below England going into next month's Ashes.
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Famously, journalist Hunter S Thompson's ashes were fired into the sky - as per his wishes - in a giant firework, paid for by his friend Johnny Depp.
Prosecutors in Poland have opened an investigation into reports that a Swedish artist used ashes from the Nazi death camp at Majdanek in a painting.
Bell, who made a pair in the 2005 Ashes Test at The Oval and went into the match without a century in 31 previous innings at number three, had been moved up the order despite a poor display at Headingley where England were crushed by an innings and 80 runs.
Or was his tiny, little body interred into the garden of remembrance, or was it his ashes?
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The hosts trail the Ashes series 2-1 and were forced into replacing Ponting with Michael Clarke as skipper ahead of the last Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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The police are looking into two criminal complaints that have been lodged over the Mortonhall baby ashes issue in Edinburgh.
Harmison's absence means England will go into the third Test without five members of last summer's victorious Ashes side.
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England's humiliating loss within three days to Australia in the fourth Test in Leeds means they now go into the final Test, which begins on 20 August, needing to win to reclaim the Ashes.
After the Ashes series, England and Australia will meet in two Twenty20 internationals and seven one-dayers, leading into the 2011 World Cup on the subcontinent.
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