South African captain Graeme Smith had no plans to bat with a broken hand but changed his mind after seeing the resolute display by tail-enders on the last day of the third final Test against Australia here...

Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recovered from a horror start to impose his game on fighting Finn Jarkko Nieminen for a 0-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-5) win into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International...

Australian Open tennis tournament director Craig Tiley is confident that defending champion Maria Sharapova of Russia will play this...

South African captain Graeme Smith peeled off the cast on his broken left hand to come out to join Makhaya Ntini in a gutsy bid to save the third cricket Test , but their resistance came to an end with ten balls still to be bowled and Australia snatched victory in a pulsating finish here...

Scoreboard on the fifth day of the third and final cricket Test between Australia and South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground here...

Australia retained their No.1 ranking by winning the Sydney Test but South Africa will go top if they win the return series starting next...

Wellington, Jan 7 : While people are living longer as a result of improved health standards, humans are starting to outlive their eyeballs, according to Australian...

Melbourne, Jan 7 : An octogenarian pensioner has been banned from driving for the next 1000 years, after constant court appearances for negligent driving, driving without a licence and failing to give...

Melbourne, Jan 7 : A drug-runner who admitted to police that he had been masturbating while driving at 150 km/h has been sentenced to two months...

Sydney, Jan.7 : Australian captain Ricky Ponting has described opener Matthew Hayden's experience as a valuable asset, and does not visualise him hanging up his gloves any time soon, especially when the team is passing through a transitional...

Melbourne, Jan 7 : Anti-government protests that shut down Bangkok's airports last year have cost Thailand 11.5 billion dollars, much more than loses suffered during the Tsunami or SARS, a central bank study has said....

Lahore, Jan 7 : Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has reiterated that Pakistan's priority is to host Australia's tour in their home country, but admitted that a neutral venue for the series remains a possibility....

Melbourne, Jan 7 : The man who kept US President-elect Barack Obama out of the Blair House has reportedly been revealed, it is: former Australian prime minister and Bush mate John...

London, January 7 : An Australian study suggests that it is a lack of exposure to sunlight, rather than too much time spent watching TV and playing computer games, that damages children's...

Top seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia on Wednesday pulled out of the Chennai Open ATP tournament and Australian Open Grand Slam owing to an injury to the heel of his left foot.Davydenko, who reached...

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia battles into quarterfinals of WTA event in Brisbane Ivanovic saves two match points before beating Roberta Vinci in three sets Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo next...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -Facing two match points and a shock exit, Ana Ivanovic suddenly rediscovered her game Wednesday to hold off Italian Roberta Vinci and reach the Brisbane International...

A LIFE-THREATENING superbug more difficult to treat than the notorious "golden staph" has been found on 13 patients at Royal North Shore Hospital.The superbug, vancomycin-resistant enterococcus...

World number three Dinara Safina has given Russia a 1-0 lead in the Hopman Cup tie against Chinese Taipei in Perth. Safina beat Su-Wei Hsieh in the women's singles rubber 4-6, 6-2,...

THE NSW Opposition has pledged to end the "law and order auction" in a dramatic break with the tradition of promising to increase punishments and fill jails that has characterised every state...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a D.C. property so exclusive that even the president-elect couldn't reserve it. So who's staying at Blair House, the White House's guest quarters across Pennsylvania...

STATE public servants wrote off 235 government cars in 2007-08 while incurring $34.5 million in insurance claims for vehicles. the Opposition said.Area health services were heavily represented in the...

Sabine Lisicki of Germany defeated Meghann Shaughnessy of U.S. 4-6, 6-0, 6-4. Teamed with Nicolas Kiefer she also won doubles match against Shaughnessy and James Blake 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 (match...

ON THE second floor of New York City Hall - marriage licences $35; wedding ceremonies $25 - casually dressed brides distinguish themselves with a posy, and only rarely with a traditional wedding...

0 posts Taking advantage of opportunities for early intervention in families that come into contact with health workers, welfare agencies and the police may help reduce the rate of child homicide in...

SHOPPERS are expected to remain cautious at the check-out this year, despite slightly better than expected sales in the lead-up to the busy Christmas period. Encouraged by falling petrol prices,...

An 18-year-old Canberra man who allegedly assaulted another man with a brick in Kambah early this morning has been granted bail in the ACT Magistrates Court. It is alleged Riley Smith hit the...

Canberra - An Australian outback policeman was pelted with rocks and beer bottles and his stolen patrol car was used to try and run him down, police said on Wednesday. The officer was attacked by...

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Australian Tax Office (ATO) has warned against a fraudulent email claiming to be from the ATO. The email, which is similar to previous scams, uses the ATO logo and has the subject line of...

The 36ers have strengthened their position in the NBL's top six, edging the Wollongong Hawks 107-99 in their round 17 clash on Wednesday evening. The home team were eager to turn around their...

Article Reprints An Australian woman in Adelaide has been charged with murder after allegedly setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an...

Alcoa to slash its workforce by 13 per cent will not affect its Australian operations, the company says. The US-based aluminium giant is laying off 13,500 staff and 1700 contractors worldwide, as it...

retail sales data * Bills futures fall as data trims chances of hefty rate cuts SYDNEY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Australian dollar AUD= held firm near three-month peaks on Wednesday as appetite...

Several Caltex petrol stations around Perth are set to hike fuel prices by up to 13.4 cents a litre, despite the wholesale price of petrol decreasing slightly during the last week. It follows...

Officials say a 3-year-old girl has been killed in an attack by four dogs that also left a toddler and a woman injured.State police say the children had been visiting a neighbor's home Wednesday in...

A motorcyclist who crashed into a truck carrying sheep has been rushed to Royal Perth Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The crash occurred at the intersection at Tonkin Highway and Mills Road...

Lleyton Hewitt has embraced his gruelling Hopman Cup schedule as perfect preparation for the Australian Open. Before his arrival in Perth for the mixed teams tournament, Hewitt had not played since...

A Darwin man has been fined $2,000 for filming himself masturbating while speeding along the Stuart Highway. The man is already in jail until August after pleading guilty to carrying cannabis in the...

Mitchell Johnson bowled South Africa's captain Graeme Smith to win the third and final Test for Australia by 103 runs with only 10 balls remaining in the match to complete a series as consistently...

Queensland Roar goalkeeper Liam Reddy is out of this weekend's A-League match against Central Coast with a hamstring strain. Reddy sustained the injury at training yesterday with a MRI scan...

Japanese suicide hotline overload Meanwhile, Japan's hotline for people considering killing themselves is stretched to its limit, with the economic crisis feared to be worsening the country's...

Results Wednesday at the Brisbane International, a joint ATP-WTA tournament on hard plexicushion courts at the Queensland Tennis Centre (seedings in parentheses):SinglesMenSecond RoundFlorent Serra,...

A man has been taken to hospital with minor injuries after the front carriage of a train came off the tracks as it pulled out of Homebush Station in Sydney's west this afternoon. Police say the...

Australia has gained some much-needed momentum heading into its tour of South Africa, completing a nail-biting 103-run win over the Proteas with 10 balls to spare in the third Test at the SCG. The...

Skipper Daniel Vettori has taken four cheap scalps as New Zealand crushed the West Indies by seven wickets in Wellington to level the one-day series at 1-1. Vettori finished with 4 for 20 from 10...

Second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has fought back from a first set hammering to remain alive in the Brisbane International. Last year's Australian Open runner-up overcame Finn Jarkko Nieminen 0-6, 7-6,...

A 36-year-old Sydney man has died after being pulled from rough seas at Coffs Harbour on the state's mid north coast. The man and another person were swimming at Park Beach south at midday when they...

A South Australian health service is not ruling out financial compensation for the parents of a premature baby who was left in the temporary care of a stranger at a regional airport. A nurse from...

Corruption and Crime Commission in September last year. But Mr Lee says he'll run for mayor again in an extraordinary election Cockburn Council will hastily arrange for March 5. On September 26,...