The manner of the latest loss sparked a row between Ponting and former team-mate and Australian legend Shane Warne.
The fugitive Iraqi Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashemi, has left Qatar after a four-day visit which sparked a row with the rest of the Iraqi government.
Licensing Minister Gerry Sutcliffe sparked a row on Thursday after he told pub trade newspaper The Morning Advertiser he thought alcohol tax rises announced in this year's Budget were wrong.
He replaced Terry Venables as England boss following Euro 96, but after leading the team to the last World Cup he was sacked when he sparked a row over his beliefs about disabled people and reincarnation.
Japan controls the islands but its purchase of three of them from their private Japanese owner in September sparked a renewed row.
This seat is one of the most marginal in the country - and the question of finding school places sparked a political row.
Ahmed al-Gizawi was convicted of drug trafficking by a court in Jeddah, in a case which sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries.
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Two Italian marines accused of murdering two Indian fishermen, in a case that has sparked a diplomatic row, are to be sent back to Delhi for trial.
India's Supreme Court has allowed an anti-terror agency to probe the case of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in a case that sparked a diplomatic row.
The committee's public hearings into the allegations sparked a bitter row between the government and the BBC, which reported that government communications chief Alastair Campbell altered the September dossier to include the 45-minute claim.
The case sparked a major diplomatic row between India and Italy.
The case involving the marines had sparked a bitter diplomatic row between India and Italy after Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, who were allowed by the court to travel home to vote in the February election, did not return on Rome's advice.
The row had been sparked by a report that Renault was considering moving production of a future version of the Clio, its popular small car, from France to Turkey.
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As the siege unfolded, Mr Saunders threw a message to his wife, Elizabeth, from a window, suggesting a row between the couple may have sparked the incident.
Instead they moved it to a larger venue after publicity over the row sparked big demand to see it.
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