Spinner Nathan Hauritz steered Australia to a comfortable 231-run third Test victory over Pakistan at the Bellerive Oval in Tasmania on Monday -- completing a 3-0 whitewash over their opponents for a fourth successive occasion.
India's foreign minister has cautioned his Australian counterpart that the relations between the two countries could be strained unless Australia tackles the continuing attacks on Indian students studying there.
A weekend killing in Australia has prompted the Indian government to issue an advisory for its college students studying in that country.
Australia secured one of the greatest wins in their cricketing history as they overcame a massive first innings deficit to post a 36-run triumph over Pakistan in Sydney on Wednesday.
Pakistan hold a 204-run lead with one wicket in hand at the end of day two of the second Test after a late Australia rally at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Hopman Cup hosts Australia suffered a shock defeat in the opening match of the mixed teams tennis tournament in Perth on Saturday, losing 2-1 to Romania.
Shane Watson put Australia in a strong position to claim an emphatic victory over Pakistan in the Boxing Day Test match at stumps on day three.
West Indies fought their way back into the final Test against Australia at the WACA in Perth as 16 wickets fell on a topsy-turvy third day.
Simon Katich missed out on a century by single run as he helped put Australia in a commanding position after the first day of the third Test against the West Indies.
On the operating table lies a sick koala. He's just been brought in by a driver who found the animal sitting in the middle of a busy road. Veterinarian Claude Lacasse determines the koala has not been hit by a car but she immediately detects one serious problem facing many of the marsupials: Chlamydia, a disease which can lead to a very slow and painful death for koalas living in the wild.
Spinner Nathan Hauritz steered Australia to a comfortable 231-run third Test victory over Pakistan at the Bellerive Oval in Tasmania on Monday -- completing a 3-0 whitewash over their opponents for a fourth successive occasion.
India's foreign minister has cautioned his Australian counterpart that the relations between the two countries could be strained unless Australia tackles the continuing attacks on Indian students studying there.
A weekend killing in Australia has prompted the Indian government to issue an advisory for its college students studying in that country.
Australia secured one of the greatest wins in their cricketing history as they overcame a massive first innings deficit to post a 36-run triumph over Pakistan in Sydney on Wednesday.
Pakistan hold a 204-run lead with one wicket in hand at the end of day two of the second Test after a late Australia rally at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Hopman Cup hosts Australia suffered a shock defeat in the opening match of the mixed teams tennis tournament in Perth on Saturday, losing 2-1 to Romania.
Shane Watson put Australia in a strong position to claim an emphatic victory over Pakistan in the Boxing Day Test match at stumps on day three.
West Indies fought their way back into the final Test against Australia at the WACA in Perth as 16 wickets fell on a topsy-turvy third day.
Simon Katich missed out on a century by single run as he helped put Australia in a commanding position after the first day of the third Test against the West Indies.
On the operating table lies a sick koala. He's just been brought in by a driver who found the animal sitting in the middle of a busy road. Veterinarian Claude Lacasse determines the koala has not been hit by a car but she immediately detects one serious problem facing many of the marsupials: Chlamydia, a disease which can lead to a very slow and painful death for koalas living in the wild.
A massive iceberg -- more than twice the size of New York's Manhattan island -- is drifting slowly toward Australia, scientists said Wednesday.
Australia battled to a draw in the second Test against the West Indies in Adelaide on Tuesday to retain the Frank Worrell Trophy.
After nearly two years in office, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, remains committed to keeping Australia at the forefront of global affairs.
Australia's main opposition Liberal party appointed a climate change skeptic as its leader on Tuesday in a move that all but kills plans by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to have an emissions trading scheme passed into law ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit.
Australia crushed the West Indies by an innings and 65 runs in the opening Test in Brisbane, while New Zealand also took a 1-0 lead in the series against Pakistan with a tense final-day victory.
Authorities are asking residents in some some parts of south Australia to evacuate their homes as an impending heat wave prompted the nation to issue its first "catastrophic" brush fire warning.
The return of Tiger Woods to Australia has captured the imagination of golf fans throughout the country.
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.
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