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All Black prop Wyatt Crockett announced his international retirement Tuesday and said this season would be his last with Super Rugby champions the Crusaders. The 35-year-old has earned 71 Test caps since his debut in 2009, including a role in New Zealand’s successful 2015 World Cup campaign. He has also made more Super Rugby appearances than […]

It was a mixed week for the Australian sides in Super Rugby with the Brumbies blowing the Chiefs away in Canberra, the Waratahs edging the Sunwolves and the Reds falling agonisingly short of the Highlanders Who were the players from the Aussie teams who stood out in round two? 1. James Slipper The Brumbies scrum […]

Pete Samu has been labelled an impact specialist by Crusaders coach Scott Robertson, which is why the Wallabies international is still on the bench for the Super Rugby final. Coach Scott Robertson was forced to make one starting change for Saturday’s showdown with the Lions in Christchurch after flanker Jordan Taufua broke his arm in […]

Kurtley Beale will replace Israel Folau at fullback for the Waratahs against the Rebels. Beale missed training on Monday and Tuesday with illness but was named at 15 regardless and is set to train with the team on Thursday. Karmichael Hunt and Adam Ashley-Cooper will team up in the centres for NSW with Cam Clark […]

Why the Brumbies love playing in Africa, the unfashionable men behind the Reds’ success, Tate McDermott P.I, why Ireland are like Homer Simpson and the origins of Stephen Larkham’s dead-man nickname. All those topics, and many more, are on the table in episode five of The Rugby Nation Show. Host Sean Maloney steers the ship […]

Follow RT on The US Federal Aviation Administration has banned all aircraft, including emergency vehicles, from the airspace near Area 51 ahead of the ‘Storm Area 51 event’ scheduled for Friday. Everything from news helicopters to drones to private planes and even police vehicles have been barred from the airspace in anticipation of the viral […]

Follow RT on The US government has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, alleging that his newly-published memoir ‘Permanent Record’ violates nondisclosure agreements he signed with the CIA and NSA. The civil lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, claims that Snowden violated these agreements by not sending a draft of the book […]

Follow RT on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is yet to see if his promises of annexing more land and undermining the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, were enough to attract enough votes to continue a decade in power. Challenging him for the premiership is another Benjamin, retired General ‘Benny’ Gantz who formed a new political bloc called […]

Follow RT on Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Saudi Arabia should buy Russian air defense systems to protect its oil facilities from drone attacks, pointing to Iran and Turkey, who operate S-300 and S-400 missiles, respectively. “Saudi Arabia needs to make a smart decision, as Iran did by buying our S-300, and as Mr. […]

Follow RT on From banning sofas and soft carpets in offices to seizing property from political emigrants, old Soviet laws have been hampering Russia’s development for decades. But now 20,000 outdated acts will finally be made obsolete. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the so-called ‘regulatory guillotine’ as a measure against the excessive and ineffective […]