Several top American media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN and The Los Angeles Times, which were among those press outlets critical of the Trump Administration, were not invited to Spicer's press gaggle.
Pakistan on Friday stayed the execution of Sarabjit Singh. The hanging has been stayed till further notice.
Andrew Symonds and Brett Lee's call-up for the ODI series against Pakistan came not without a price and the Australian duo are set to miss out on US $1.75 million of Indian Premier League (IPL) money, according to reports in Melbourne. The call-up revived the international career of both the Australians but at the same time, limited their availability for the second edition of the IPL starting in South Africa on April 18.
Secretary Niranjan Shah said the BCCI could, like Cricket Australia, demand payment for the right to distribute photographs for future domestic Test series.
Australia coach Darren Lehmann says he and captain Steve Smith both wanted Mitchell Johnson to play on, at least in one-dayers, but were unable to convince the fiery fast bowler to reconsider retirement.
Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds has been fined after sleeping in and missing the team bus to a training session in Barbados. Symonds was 10 minutes late for the bus but did not miss any part of practice after finding his own way to Kensington Oval.
Michelle Obama's favourite desi designer will not be dressing the incoming US First Lady.
The winners of the 60th annual World Press Photo Contest have been announced. The winning shot was taken by Turkish Associated Press photographer called Burhan Ozbilici, with an image he has simply titled An Assassination in Turkey. Showing Mevlut Mert Altintas shouting after shooting Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, on December 19 2016.
Australia batsman and vice-captain Michael Clarke may miss next week's first Test against West Indies following the death of his fiancee's father, Australian Associated Press reported on Monday. Clarke was granted compassionate leave by Cricket Australia last week to allow him to stay at home with model Lara Bingle during her father's illness.
Ace spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has demanded the money as damages for making 'derogatory' comments about his bowling action.
During a recent interview with the Associated Press, she reportedly sounded off on the media's handling of the story. 'It seemed to me to be like a product of extreme sexism, and I kept thinking to myself, 'God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney or any of the other (Obama) surrogates or supporters ... there wouldn't be (any) question about it. Nobody would even talk about it.'
News Agencies will boycott the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia due to a dispute with Cricket Australia.
Three leading international news agencies are set to boycott this week's first cricket Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka after organisers demanded payment for the right to distribute photographs from the event.
'These people were your darlings, they were being dined and wined in the White House and now you say go to hell Pakistanis'
Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and Getty Images announced that they would suspend text, hotographic and television coverage in a row with the tournament's organisers over media rights.
The alleged killer of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto has been identified. And he is dead.
Rejecting the notion that spirit of the 'gentleman's game' has detoriated in recent times, ICC umpires' and referees' manager Vince van der Bijl said the previous generations were just as bad when it came to onfield behaviour.
The BCCI backed Cricket Australia over a picture rights dispute that has prompted news agencies to boycott matches in Australia.
1923-2018: Remembering Mort Walker.
Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse said the decision by Cricket Australia to control the rights and demand a payment threatened their integrity.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
The Associated Press, in a story widely reproduced in the US media, cites top US military commanders as saying that Pakistan's tribal areas are the new Ground Zero in the battle against global terrorism -- even more so than Iraq.
Here's a view of the unbelievable destruction the fire has brought on.
On the condition of anonymity, a Los Angeles police officer, said the 26-year-old pop star was being taken to 'get help' but did not say where the ambulance was going.
President Bush also reiterated his commitment to take relations forward.
Ricky Ponting has said the new India captain will be under pressure during the upcoming Test series in Australia.
Manohar Parrikar's remarks that "terrorists have to be neutralised only through terrorists" is the "worst" declaration by a state functionary his Pakistani counterpart, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said.
MotoGP world championship leader Casey Stoner has extended his contract with Ducati until the end of the 2008 season, Australian media reported on Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the American capital on Saturday for the "March for Our Lives" to support tougher gun controls and protest Congress's refusal to consider them. The event is being led by the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 when 17 were slaughtered by a teenage gunman carrying a legally-purchased AR-15.
Reuters Group Plc, which runs one of the world's leading news agencies as well as other financial data businesses, today said it has received an unsolicited takeover offer, but did not identify the potential bidder.
The 24-year-old started brightly by taking the first set off the 19th seed on Monday but his lack of match fitness told as, despite frequent treatment from the trainer, he lost the next three to bow out at the first hurdle in a third straight grand slam.
The world champions will don high-tech green collarless shirts in one-day international matches.
Taufiqar Rahman appeared at the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with two counts of indecent assault
He was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, in 2011.
He pulled out of his last warm-up match before the first Ashes Test on Friday.
Sahib Khan Oad, a senior reporter with Associated Press of Pakistan, has been barred from drinking water in the same glass and sharing utensils with other Muslim staff at the office, the Express Tribune reported.
Australia's Lleyton Hewitt is raring to go on Belgium's indoor clay courts in the Davis Cup tie this weekend.
At least three blasts went off on Jimbaran beach, which is lined with seafood restaurants frequented by tourists, the report said.
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