SYDNEYCricket Australia said Tuesday it had no immediate plan to curb the use of social media by players after a Twitter rant by David Warner, but suggested it could happen in the future.Opening batsman Warner is due to face a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday into an alleged code of conduct breach ...

SYDNEY - An Australian politician was left hopping after he was attacked by a kangaroo while on a morning jog in the national capital Canberra.“Mugged by a kangaroo!,” declared Shane Rattenbury, Australian Capital Territory municipal services minister, on Twitter.Rattenbury was left ...

SYDNE - Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait has strongly denied any link to the arrest of three Indian teammates allegedly involved in spot-fixing during an Indian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament. Test player Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and fellow bowlers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were all ...

SYDNEY - The small Australian town of Wee Waa is readying for its global launch of the new album by French group Daft Punk, despite being pipped at the post with the music already available online. Wee Waa, a farming town known as the "Cotton Capital of Australia", lies about 500 kilometres ...

SYDNEY : The Australian dollar slipped below parity with the greenback for the first time in 12 months on Saturday on fears that the mining-powered economy was slowing. The Aussie hit a low of 99.62 US cents in offshore trade overnight, dipping below the US$1 mark for the first time since May 14 ...

SYDNEY: Investigations were under way Thursday into who 4 Vegemite sandwiches at the Australian prime minister as she toured a Queensland school. Julia Gillard tried to play down the prank on Wednesday at Brisbane’s Marsden state high school. “One kid thought he might just be a little ...

SYDNEY (VOA)  - A Pakistan-born migrant is to become the first Muslim woman to serve in an Australia parliament.Mehreen Faruqi, a prominent figure in environmental engineering, has been chosen by the New South Wales Greens to fill a vacancy in the upper house of the state legislature. She ...

MONTE CARLO  Australian Marinko Matosevic faces the toughest ask in tennis after winning his first match on clay in almost a year to open with a 7-5, 6-3 success over Fernando Verdasco at the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday.But the number 54 won't have time to celebrate an upset of Spain's ...

AUGUSTA  - Adam Scott sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Angel Cabrera and win the 77th Masters, becoming the first Australian golfer to capture the green jacket.Nine months after making bogeys on the last four holes to squander a British Open lead at Royal ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it would be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange won but could not take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial ...

SYDNEY (TG)A teenage boy has been impersonating doctors at hospitals in Australia and has been spotted on wards wearing scrubs and a stethoscope and reading patient notes. The state health authority in South Australia has warned staff about the “bogus clinician” who “walks around ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian researchers are working on a new breed of pineapple - one that is not only sweet and juicy but which has the added tropical taste of coconut.In what is thought to be a world first, the Department of Agriculture in Queensland state is in the final stages of developing the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - The camp set up by Australia to house asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru was “appalling” and likely in breach of its obligations to refugees, rights group Amnesty said Friday. Australia began sending asylum-seekers to Nauru in September as part of a new policy ...

NEW YORK (Reuters)  AC/DC’S entire catalogue, including 20 studio and live albums and three compilations will be available on iTunes for the first time worldwide, Columbia Records and Apple said on Monday. Until now the Australian heavy metal group that was formed by two brothers, Angus ...

LONDON  - The Aussie activist who halted Britain’s university Boat Race by jumping into the River Thames and swimming between the boats was jailed for six months. Trenton Oldfield, 36, looked surprised as the sentence was passed down at Isleworth Crown Court in London. He was convicted ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper announced his resignation Tuesday, hours after surviving a motion to sack him for lurid text messages he sent to a former staffer. Conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott had called for Slipper to be removed, saying he was not ...

COLOMBO  - Shane Watson grabbed 3-34 and struck 72 off 42 balls to lift Australia to an emphatic nine-wicket win over India in the Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 in Colombo on Friday.Watson, who was adjudged man of the match for the third consecutive game, shared a first-wicket stand ...

TRIPOLI  - Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr arrived in Libya on Monday to press for the release of an Int’l Criminal Court team who are being held after meeting the son of dead dictator Moamer Gaddafi. Shortly after his arrival, Carr met interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib and ...

NEW DELHI - A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to Australian player Luke Pomersbach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team who was arrested for allegedly molesting an American woman in a five-star hotel here and beating up her fiance. Metropolitan magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha asked ...

SYDNEY  - Carmen Marton and Safwan Khalil have their priorities set after being named in the Australian team for the London Olympics: first taekwondo then tie the knot.Marton and fiancé Khalil were named Tuesday by the Australian Olympic Committee, along with Khalil's brother and coach ...

SINGAPORE - Australia’s Scott Hend closed with a six-under-par 64 to win the weather-shortened ISPS Handa Singapore Classic on Sunday, but admitted it had been a nerve-wracking experience.The $400,000 full-field Asian Tour event was reduced to 54 holes after inclement weather caused almost 10 ...

NEW DELHI : Australia captain Michael Clarke will make his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut this season after being signed by Pune Warriors, the franchise announced on Wednesday. "We are thrilled to have Michael Clarke on board. The reigning Australian skipper is one of the world's best ...

NEW DELHI - Mumbai police has filed a case against a rock band, M Majors for cheating Australian cricketer Brett Lee after getting orders from a local court. Brett Lee has alleged that he was cheated by the band. The organisers had promised to pay him Rs 10 lakh for the concert he performed along ...

Rafael Nadal once again proved Roger Federer's grand slam nemesis on Thursday, withstanding a withering opening from the Swiss great to reach the final of the Australian Open. The Spaniard won 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 to prolong the agony for his greatest rival, who has now lost eight times ...

SYDNEY - An Australian surfer was recovering Thursday after being dragged under the water by a shark that sliced his leg open then circled him as he screamed for help in a scene witnesses said was “like Jaws”.Tattoo artist Glen Folkard, 44, was catching waves off Redhead Beach when a ...

SYDNEY - An Australian family spoke of their fright Sunday after waking to find a 1.7 metre (five-foot seven-inch) crocodile lurking in their living room. Jo Dodd said she was first alerted to the reptilian intruder by the frantic barking of their family dog on Saturday morning. “We opened ...

MELBOURNE (Agencies) - There will be no respite for the umpires who will be officiating in the tri-series involving India, Australia and Sri Lanka as the Decision Review System (DRS) won't be used during the 15-match tournament in February due to the refusal by the BCCI. All the three teams need to ...

MELBOURNE (Agencies) - Seething after the Australian cricket team suffered a couple of setbacks in the first Test because of India's refusal to have the Decision Review System, the media Down Under trained its guns on the visiting team's coach, Duncan Fletcher, who has supported the DRS in the ...

HOBART (AFP) - Pressure mounted on Phil Hughes after he again failed with the bat as Australia chased New Zealand's modest 150 on an eventful opening day of the second Test at Bellerive Oval on Friday. The under-fire opener lasted just five balls before he was again caught in the slips off Chris ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Chief selector Andrew Hilditch and head coach Tim Nielsen were high-profile casualties Friday of a sweeping review into Australian cricket sparked by the team's Ashes humiliation this year. Both men lost their jobs, along with fellow selector Greg Chappell, following the seven-month ...