Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates for the second time in just over a month as evidence mounts the nation's economic recovery is building momentum.
Eighteen people were rescued -- but as many as 21 others were missing -- after a boat sank late Sunday in remote seas off Australia's Cocos Islands, according to Australian Customs and Border Protection Service officials.
Five men were convicted Friday in Sydney, Australia, of trying to commit terrorist acts in the country's longest-ever terror trial, court officials said.
That Australia is once again defending itself against claims of racism is not surprising.
Australia became the first OECD nation to raise interest rates on Tuesday when its central bank increased the official cash rate from 3 percent to 3.25 percent.
Shane Watson's second hundred in a week sealed Champions Trophy glory for defending champions Australia as they clinched a six-wicket win over New Zealand in the final in Centurion.
Ricky Ponting's Australia maintained their domination over England with a crushing nine-wicket victory in their Champions Trophy semifinal on Friday.
Australia scored a dramatic two-wicket win over Pakistan off the last ball of their match at Centurion Park on Wednesday to reach the semifinals of the Champions Trophy.
The Australian economy expanded at a higher than expected rate in the three months ended June, helped by robust contributions from the household sector and business spending on machinery and equipment.
World rugby champions South Africa condemned Australia to a sixth consecutive Tri-Nations defeat to close on this year's title with a 32-25 victory in Perth on Saturday.
Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates for the second time in just over a month as evidence mounts the nation's economic recovery is building momentum.
Eighteen people were rescued -- but as many as 21 others were missing -- after a boat sank late Sunday in remote seas off Australia's Cocos Islands, according to Australian Customs and Border Protection Service officials.
Five men were convicted Friday in Sydney, Australia, of trying to commit terrorist acts in the country's longest-ever terror trial, court officials said.
That Australia is once again defending itself against claims of racism is not surprising.
Australia became the first OECD nation to raise interest rates on Tuesday when its central bank increased the official cash rate from 3 percent to 3.25 percent.
Shane Watson's second hundred in a week sealed Champions Trophy glory for defending champions Australia as they clinched a six-wicket win over New Zealand in the final in Centurion.
Ricky Ponting's Australia maintained their domination over England with a crushing nine-wicket victory in their Champions Trophy semifinal on Friday.
Australia scored a dramatic two-wicket win over Pakistan off the last ball of their match at Centurion Park on Wednesday to reach the semifinals of the Champions Trophy.
The Australian economy expanded at a higher than expected rate in the three months ended June, helped by robust contributions from the household sector and business spending on machinery and equipment.
World rugby champions South Africa condemned Australia to a sixth consecutive Tri-Nations defeat to close on this year's title with a 32-25 victory in Perth on Saturday.
Crews worked Monday to disperse an oil slick that stretches 8 nautical miles through remote waters off the coast of northwestern Australia.
China and Australia have signed an energy deal worth more than $40 billion -- the largest trade deal ever between the two nations.
A plane carrying 13 people -- including nine passengers from Australia -- went missing on its way from Port Moresby to Kokoda in Papua New Guinea, the Australia Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Australia completed a comprehensive victory over England in the fourth Ashes Test at Headingley, Leeds, winning by an innings and 80 runs inside three days to level the series at 1-1 with just the deciding Test match at The Oval still to play.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Vanderbilt Commodores are about to go down under for some preseason bonding and extra play time.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting hit a superb 78 as England made a disastrous start to the fourth and penultimate Test of the Ashes series at Headingley, Leeds.
Michael Clarke scored his 12th Test century and shared a record stand of 185 for the fifth wicket with Marcus North as Australia easily batted out for a draw in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin defied England with an unbroken sixth wicket partnership of 185 to set up the unlikely prospect of an Australia victory on the final day of the second Ashes Test at Lord's
England continued to dominate the second Ashes Test against Australia after building a 521-run lead with four wickets remaining when rain halted play late on the third day at Lord's.
England paceman James Anderson took four wickets to bowl them into a winning position at the close of the second day of the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord's.
The rivalry between the two cricket powers of Australia and England dates back to the first Test played between the two nations in 1877.
Former England player Steve Harmison noted recently that Australia haven't started this Ashes tour with the usual "swagger and bravado" that on previous tours was as much a part of the team as their cricket bats.
I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
Australia's Aboriginal people are at greater risk from the H1N1 virus, the country's health minister has warned.
The world's top-rated Test nation Australia crashed out of the Twenty20 World Cup after losing by six wickets to Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge.
The turbulent cricket career of Andrew Symonds took another twist on Thursday when the Australia all-rounder was sent home from the World Twenty20 tournament in Britain for an "alcohol-related incident".
All-rounder Andrew Symonds has been left out of Australia's cricket squad for this summer's Ashes series in England -- as selectors decided to reward the players who performed so well in the recent series in South Africa.
Sixteen people vying for what is being dubbed the "best job in the world" will on Wednesday learn who has won the post of caretaker for the tropical paradise of Hamilton island in Queensland, Australia.
Sixteen applicants arrived in Hamilton Island on Sunday for the final interviews to pick a caretaker for the tropical paradise in Queensland, Australia.
Australia took a 2-1 lead in the five-match one-day cricket series after defeating Pakistan by 27 runs in Abu Dhabi on Monday evening.
Australia's prime minister Friday slammed those engaged in human trafficking after an explosion aboard a boat carrying Afghan refugees killed three people and injured more than 40 others near Ashmore Reef, off Australia's northwest coast.
Herschelle Gibbs cracked a century as South Africa scored a 61-run victory over Australia in the fourth one-day international in Port Elizabeth for an unassailable 3-1 series lead.
In the same week in late February that the fourth season of Australia's A-League reached its climax with the showpiece Grand Final between the Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United, Football Federation Australia moved offices. The common timing of the two events is not entirely coincidental nor insignificant.
Australia were frustrated in their bid to become the first side to reach next year's World Cup finals in South Africa after beating Uzbekistan 2-0 to regain control of Asian Group A.
Four wickets from Dale Steyn capped an impressive bowling performance from South Africa and helped them take command of the third Test in Cape Town, as they bowled Australia out for 209 shortly before the close on day one.
A container ship lost 30 containers of chemicals in heavy seas off eastern Australia on Wednesday morning, maritime officials said.
Rescuers have saved more than 50 whales and five dolphins that stranded themselves on a beach in Tasmania, officials said Monday.
South Africa fought back in the first Test against Australia at the Wanderers Stadium to give themselves an outside chance of victory on the final day.
Australia took total command in the battle of Test cricket's top two-rated nations as they built up a lead of 297 runs over South Africa with nine second innings wickets remaining.
For pro-surfers like nine-time world champion Kelly Slater, flying from continent to continent looking for the perfect wave seems like a freewheeling lifestyle, but for amateurs, it requires careful planning.
The death toll from bushfires in southeastern Australia has risen to 210, police in the state of Victoria said Tuesday.
Church bells rang throughout Australia on Sunday as the country remembered the victims of this month's devastating fires -- and firefighters braced themselves for the possibility of more blazes.
Police were questioning a man taken into custody Friday in connection with one of the many wildfires that have laid waste to parts of southeastern Australia. No other details were immediately available.
Winds whipping across southeastern Australia's countryside continued to fan deadly brushfires Wednesday, spreading flames through rural towns and ravaging scores of homes.
Investigators in Australia believe some of the deadly wildfires ravaging dry southeastern bushland may have been set, a conclusion prompting Australia's prime minister to call such acts "mass murder."
It was the speed that caught us off guard. And the noise. Like a roaring, out-of-control freight train.
Deadly bushfires raged on in southeast Australia on Sunday despite cooler temperatures and scores of firefighters trying to control the flames.
Customs officials in Australia have cried fowl after searching a airline traveler -- and allegedly finding two live pigeons stuffed in his tights.
The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday cut its cash rate, or overnight money market interest rate, by 1 percent to 3.25 percent in an effort to stimulate demand and cushion the nation's economy amid a global recession.
Two men found floating in a giant cooler off the Australian coast say they want to stay in Australia and don't want to go home, immigration officials said Friday.
Police in Australia have arrested a man accused of breaking into an adult shop and having sex with blow-up dolls, it was reported Wednesday.
Australia overcame another potential powerplay roadblock to scrape home by five runs in the second one-day international against South Africa at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart.
Markets in Australia, Japan, and South Korea bolted upward Wednesday, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng up a quarter percent after a slight drop earlier.
South Africa took the opening honors in the third Test, leaving Australia on 267 for six following an absorbing first day's play at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Australia declined a request from the Bush administration to resettle detainees held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, the Australian Associated Press agency (AAP) reported Saturday.
Australia is considering a request from the Bush administration to resettle detainees from Guantanamo Bay, though it is unlikely to accept, the prime minister's office said Friday.
Captain Ricky Ponting fell one run short of his second century of the match as Australia faced the prospect of a first home Test series defeat for 15 years against South Africa in Melbourne.
Famed for her opulent theatrical style in films like "Strictly Ballroom" and "Moulin Rouge!," production designer Catherine Martin is probably the last person you might expect to find in the remote Outback of Australia knocking up a film set.
South Africa fought back on day three of the first Test at the WACA, Perth, but are already 322 runs behind after Brad Haddin and Jason Krejza ensured the Australian tail wagged on Friday.
Australia have recalled all-rounder Shane Watson for the first Test match against South Africa in Perth on December 17.
Australia strengthened their position after the second day of the second Test against New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval, closing on the overall lead with seven wickets in hand.
When the subject of Australia is as ambitious as the character of an entire country, and the filmmaker is as effusive as Down Under's native son Baz Luhrmann, a ballsy Aussie cinematic razzle-Bazzle is to be expected. To be longed for, actually.
Most people know that condoms prevent the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Australia became an integral link in a network of tsunami warning hubs across the Indian and Pacific oceans with the official opening of a national monitoring center Friday
It sounds like the ultimate advertisement jingle for a holiday: Blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that his government will guarantee all deposits in the country's banks and financial institutions for the next three years.
The Federal Reserve Bank announced a deal with four nations Wednesday meant to help global financial markets.
Australian animal protection activists repeated their calls Tuesday for an end to the long-distance transport of livestock after 400 sheep died in a wreck.
Setting one species up to scare off or even kill another is nothing new.
New Zealand took a stranglehold on the Tri-Nations championship with a superb 19-0 win over world champions South Africa at Newlands on Saturday.
Former Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett, now Australia's environment minister, races to the rescue of the Southern Cassowary, a creature that does a fair job of protecting itself
The U.S. Olympic basketball team completed preparations for the Beijing Games with a far from convincing 87-76 victory over Australia in Shanghai on Tuesday night.
New Zealand bounced back from last weekend's demoralizing defeat by Australia to crush the Wallabies 39-10 in Auckland on Saturday night.
Starbucks is closing more than two-thirds of its stores in Australia, days after announcing that hundreds of its American coffee outlets are also being shuttered.
Australia made a storming start to their Tri-Nations campaign with a 16-9 win over world champions South Africa in Perth on Saturday.
Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy
Forget Abba, Australia hails the octogenarian pontiff like a 21st century rock star, even though he has a very old-school sermon for everyone
It may lack the prestige of Cannes, but this year's Sydney Film Festival was an equally glitzy and glamorous affair, attracting some Hollywood heavyweights.
Australia's cricketers will pay tribute to Jane McGrath at their one-day international against West Indies in St Vincent on Tuesday.
Australian authorities have started the controversial killing of about 400 kangaroos on the outskirts of Australia's capital of Canberra, animal rights activists said Monday
New research on tough firearms restrictions passed in Australia in 1996 suggests they have had little impact on gun violence
If Australia could compete in an Olympic Games at the end of every month, it would be a happier nation.
Finn Mikko Hirvonen returned to first place in the world standings by winning the Rally of Jordan, the fifth of the 15-race world rally championship series.
Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country, archaeologists said Monday
Asian tour golf chiefs are furious over plans by the PGA of Australia to expand its activities in their region and are to appeal to the international federation to stop the proposed rival tour.
Australia have pulled out of their cricket tour of Pakistan because of concerns over security.
Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, with customers throughout the country.
Adam Gilchrist treated the crowd to a typical quickfire 83 in his final appearance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) but Australia crumbled to a 13-run defeat to Sri Lanka in their one-day international.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting made a spectacular return to form with 124 to lead Australia to an 18-run victory over India in the one-day series in Sydney.
Sri Lanka's hopes of qualifying for the final of the one-day international triangular series further receded after Australia beat them by 24 runs in a rain-shortened match in Melbourne.
India collapsed to a 50-run defeat to Australia in the latest one-day international in Adelaide on Sunday after appearing set for their second successive win over the home side.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd introduced a motion in the Australian national parliament Tuesday, apologizing for past mistreatment of the country's Aboriginal population. Here is the full text of that apology:
East Timor's president Jose Ramos-Horta arrived in Australia on Monday on full life support after being shot twice in an assassination attempt in his country, a medical official said.
The government finally apologizes to Aborigines forcibly taken from their families over the course of six decades. But don't ask for compensation
Centuries by Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke all but secured the Australia-India test series for the home side on the fourth day of the fourth and final test on Sunday.
Australia's bid for a record 17th consecutive Test victory suffered an early setback when Michael Clarke failed to hold a slip catch offered by Rahul Dravid when India were 85 for two.
India resumed their controversial tour of Australia on Wedneday as International Cricket Council chief executive Malcolm Speed insisted that cricket's governing body would not be held to ransom over the Harbhajan Singh affair.
Sri Lanka have the top batsman and bowler in the world after the latest world cricket rankings were released on Thursday.
Australia appointed former South Korea boss Pim Verbeek as national coach for the Socceroos on Thursday.
Twenty-seven miners were rescued Monday less than five hours after a landslide trapped them deep below ground in a gold mine west of Melbourne, Australia, police said.
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