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39-year-old will bat in fifth Ashes Test in Sydney
Australian played 87 Tests, scoring 6,206 runs to date
Usman Khawaja has announced he will retire from international cricket, saying the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney will be his last.
The batsman’s future in Test cricket has been one of the hottest topics of this summer’s Ashes series, after he turned 39 last month.
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Another 11 people have been injured as the flooding swept across several regions of the country since Monday

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Complaint argues Trump administration denying coverage of gender-affirming care is sex-based discrimination
The Trump administration is facing a legal complaint from a group of government employees affected by a new policy going into effect Thursday that eliminates coverage for gender-affirming care in federal health insurance programs.
The complaint, filed Thursday on the employees’ behalf by the Human Rights Campaign, is in response to an August announcement from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that it would no longer cover “chemical and surgical modification of an individual’s sex traits through medical interventions” in health insurance programs for federal employees and US Postal Service workers.
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British boxer is released on New Year’s Eve in Ikeja
Joshua can ‘recuperate at home’ after treatment
The British boxer Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, Nigerian authorities said on Wednesday night. The two-time former heavyweight champion and 2012 Olympic gold medallist was a passenger in a car accident near Lagos on Monday which killed two of his close associates and team members.
The 36-year-old had been under observation while recovering from minor injuries, his promoter had said on Monday.
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A woman has also died after being swept into the ocean in Sydney on New Year’s Day, while the body of a man was found near Palm beach
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An Irish man has died at Whitehaven beach near the Great Barrier Reef, with three other people found dead and grave fears for two more after separate incidents in waters off Sydney during a horror New Year period.
Queensland police said that emergency services received reports that a 35-year-old Irish man had been found dead in the water at the popular beach in the state’s north at about 11am on Wednesday.
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Snow flurries could hit hundreds of thousands of people in Times Square

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