ISLAMABAD : Senior trade officials from Australia and Pakistan met here on Wednesday for the 4th Joint Trade Committee trade talks which discussed ways and means to enhance bilateral trade and investment. The Australian delegation, led by Paul Grigson, the Deputy Secretary of the Australian ...

SINGAPORE - Asian giants Iran, South Korea and Australia reached the 2014 World Cup but Uzbekistan narrowly failed to book their place on a dramatic night of action on Tuesday. Australia left it late before substitute striker Josh Kennedy earned a 1-0 win over Iraq in Sydney, enough to take the ...

BELFAST - Australia leg-spin hope and possible Ashes call-up Fawad Ahmed went wicketless in his first representative bowling stint for his adopted country on Sunday.The former Pakistani asylum-seeker, who did not bat in Australia’s A first innings 312 for nine declared against Ireland in ...

LONDON - Defending champions Australia will have to put David Warner's bar brawl controversy and questions surrounding their team culture behind them when they take on Sri Lanka in their final league fixture here on Monday to decide the last of the remaining ICC Champions Trophy semifinal places.It ...

BIRMINGHAM - Shane Warne said the fall-out from David Warner's controversial attack on England batsman Joe Root could yet "bring Australia together" as they bid to regain the Ashes."In a funny sort of way this could bring Australia together. I think it is a chance for them to gel together," Warne ...

ISLAMABAD - Mighty Australia thrashed hapless Pakistan 3-0 in the WSF World Men's Team Squash Championship 2013 pre-quarterfinals Group C match played in France on Wednesday. Nasir Iqbal, who failed miserably to make any impact once again, was beaten comprehensively by Cameron Pillay 3-1. Nasir ...

BIRMINGHAM - Rain provided further frustration for Australia, on a day when they dropped David Warner for a bar-room attack on England's Joe Root, as their Champions Trophy match against New Zealand ended in a no result.Wednesday's wash-out at Edgbaston left defending champions Australia facing a ...

MELBOURNE -Exciting young winger Robbie Kruse inspired Australia's old guard to a thumping 4-0 win over Jordan which put them within sight of next year's World Cup on Tuesday. Germany-based Kruse set up 30-somethings Mark Bresciano and Tim Cahill and then grabbed an eye-catching goal of his ...

EDGBASTON:-The Australian team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its Group A match in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 against England at Edgbaston on Saturday.  Javagal Srinath of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed the fines after George Bailey's side was ...

GALLOWAY - Karrie Webb got off to a hot start by going three-under through the first three holes en route to a three-under 68 for a two-shot victory at the LPGA Tour’s ShopRite Classic. The Australian Hall-of-Famer finished at four-under 209 in the $1.5 million, 54-hole event to post her ...

SYDNEY: A controversial cull of up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia’s harsh Outback reportedly began Wednesday in a bid to control the feral animals which officials say are destroying the land. The Central Land Council said animals - including horses, donkeys and camels - were dying in ...

SYDNEY - Captain Michael Clarke and his deputy Brad Haddin Wednesday insisted Australia's disastrous series in India was history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England. Australia play five Tests against their arch-rivals starting in Nottingham on July 10, and several of the team ...

SYDNEY - As China's economy slows and Australia begins its painful transition away from a decade-long mining boom, Treasurer Wayne Swan will have little to offer voters seeking an election-year spending spree Tuesday.The government has spent months priming the public for a significant plunge in ...

SYDNEY - A gigantic whale-like balloon with pendulous udder-like appendages, designed to mark the centenary of Australia’s capital Canberra, has divided opinion, with some branding it an ugly waste of money and others saying it is an inspiration.Skywhale, believed to be the first hot-air ...

KARACHI:- Pakistan's most successful pace bowler in the current team Umar Gul has had a successful knee surgery in Australia. An official source in the Pakistan Cricket Board said that Dr David Young, a well-known orthopaedic surgeon who has a lot of experience in treating sportsmen, had performed ...

SYDNEY: Australia insisted it was committed to protecting the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday after the UN warned that the natural wonder's world heritage status could be in downgraded in 2014. UNESCO said little had been done to address concerns about rampant coastal development and water quality ...

SYDNEY: One of Australia’s top-rated talent shows has a new spice mix. Geri Halliwell, known as Ginger Spice when she was part of the Spice Girls, has replaced former bandmate Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, as a judge on “Australia’s Got Talent”, broadcaster Channel Nine ...

SYDNEY  -  The recall of two 35-year-old veterans for the Ashes series against England shows the lack of quality coming through the Australian ranks, with the squad the "best of a bad lot", media said Thursday.Selectors picked Brad Haddin and Chris Rogers, with five openers among seven ...

SYDNEYShane Watson has stood down from his role as Australia's vice-captain across all formats of the game, Cricket Australia said on Saturday, following his controversial axing in India last month. Watson said he had been "wrestling with the decision" for a while but it was the right time for a ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia announced a Aus$14.5 billion (US$15.2 billion) plan to boost funding for schools Sunday in one of the country’s biggest education reforms in decades. Under the proposal, the extra cash will be made available over six years from 2014 with the government setting a goal ...

SYDNEY - Australia announced a Aus$14.5 billion (US$15.2 billion) plan to boost funding for schools Sunday in one of the country’s biggest education reforms in decades. Under the proposal, the extra cash will be made available over six years from 2014 with the government setting a goal for ...

SYDNEY - Better use of resources rather than more government funding will help Australia return to the top five Olympic nations, Australia Olympic Committee president John Coates said on Friday.The AOC has set another top-five target for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics after Australia slipped to ...

Australia beat Pakistan 6-0 in a one-sided contest of the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Cup at IPOH in Malaysia on Sunday.Australia got off to a flying start, scoring three goals in the opening 17 minutes of the match. The first goal was scored in the 8th minute when Daniel Mirecki picked up a loose ...

HYDERABAD : - A morale-boosting win clinched in the opening Test, a confident India will look to consolidate their position by putting up another dominant performance in the second Test against Australia starting on Saturday.After putting the visitors on the mat, riding on Mahendra Singh Dhoni's ...

ISLAMABAD – Australia’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, Peter Heyward has said that he was pleased that more than 7,000 Pakistani students had chosen Australia for their studies, making Australia the second-most popular country for education among Pakistanis, after Great ...

George Bailey answered his critics in dominant fashion and Mitchell Starc again wreaked havoc with the ball as Australia posted a 54-run victory over West Indies in the second one-day international at the WACA Ground on Sunday.After losing the toss and being sent in to bat, Australia were in deep ...

MELBOURNE - Sri Lanka's impressive all-round performance in the first match in Sydney has given them a 1-0 lead and their tour of Australia ends with the possibility of making it 2-0 during the final game at the MCG. Whatever happens in Melbourne, Sri Lanka will remain the world's No.1-ranked ...

SYDNEY  - Top-order batsman Shaun Marsh was recalled to Australia's Twenty20 side Monday, joining others who impressed in the domestic Big Bash League to take on Sri Lanka later this month.Chief selector John Inverarity said Marsh was among six players in the squad who did not feature in last ...

SYDNEY  - The fourth one-day international between Australia and Sri Lanka was abandoned after rain halted play on Sunday with the tourists chasing 223 runs to take the series.Sri Lanka needed 209 more runs off 46.4 overs with all their wickets in tact when the umpires took the players off the ...

SYDNEY Australian selectors have added fast bowler Jackson Bird to their one-day squad for Sunday's crucial clash against Sri Lanka in Sydney. Sri Lanka lead the five-match series 2-1 after a four-wicket win in Brisbane on Friday, bowling out Australia inside 27 overs for just 74 runs. "Jackson ...