The Wallabies will have joint captains during their upcoming nine-match Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series with Phil Waugh and Stirling Mortlock to share leadership duties.

Stirling Mortlock has been named as Australian rugby’s new captain for Australia’s seven-match tour of Europe in November.

THE White House did not hype intelligence on the threat from Iraq's suspected banned weapons to justify the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Bush administration officials said yesterday.