India's women's team was hailed at home for their gritty showing at Lord's after just missing out on making history in narrowly losing to England in the World Cup final. Millions of cricket-crazy...
The UN accused Australia Monday of backtracking on a deal to relax its strong stance on asylum-seekers and resettle some refugees now held in overseas detention on home soil. The UN High Commissioner...
East Timor is set for another coalition after the two governing parties in Asia's youngest democracy clinched a majority of the votes in a trouble-free contest praised Monday as "remarkable" by...
Inside back Karmichael Hunt has been ruled out for eight weeks following ankle surgery and will miss the Wallabies' Bledisloe Cup opener with New Zealand next month, team officials said on Monday....
With its airborne sharks, over-the-top gore and endless cheesy cameos from fading stars it ought to have flopped -- but the viral "Sharknado" franchise shows no signs of losing its bite. A fifth film...
India captain Mithali Raj said now was time to "create the base" of a female equivalent to the Indian Premier League after her side's hopes of Women's World Cup final glory were snatched away by...
Katie Ledecky earned a second gold medal on Sunday at the world aquatics championships in Budapest by helping the United States win the women's 4x100m freestyle final. Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom had set...
Olympic champion Mack Horton set up a showdown with Chinese superstar Sun Yang on Sunday after the Australian squeezed into the men's 400m freestyle final at the world aquatic championships. Horton...
The two largest parties in East Timor's parliamentary election were neck-and-neck, according to preliminary results Sunday, with neither expected to secure enough support to govern alone. With 90...
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has ordered the police to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest in the latest effort to eradicate drug use in the country. In a speech to one of Indonesia's...
India captain Mithali Raj has urged her side to embrace the challenge of playing hosts England in the World Cup final at a sold-out Lord's on Sunday. Raj's side won through to the final with a...
Shaun Stevenson scored a simple try four minutes from time to seal a 17-11 win for Waikato Chiefs of New Zealand over Western Stormers of South Africa Saturday in a "ugly" Super Rugby quarter-final....
England captain Heather Knight hopes her side will have saved their best for last when they face India in the Women's World Cup final at Lord's on Sunday. Tournament hosts England suffered a surprise...
Australia's world number six Jason Day shot up the British Open leaderboard on Saturday after firing a fine 65 in the third round at Royal Birkdale. Day, the PGA champion in 2015, was one of a host...
Australia's cricketers have been warned this year's Ashes series could be scrapped, even if a new pay deal is reached with the game's governing body, reports said on Saturday. Australian Cricketers...
East Timor headed to the polls to elect a new parliament Saturday as Asia's youngest democracy battles economic challenges 15 years after gaining its independence from Indonesia. About 760,000 people...
The International Space Station has become the first “off planet” addition to Google Maps’ Street View facility. Astronauts helped capture 360-degree panoramas of the insides of the ISS...
A rare bottle of first vintage 1951 Penfolds Grange has been snapped up at auction for Aus$51,750 (US$40,825), officials said Friday in one of Australia's most expensive wine sales. It is believed...
US entrepreneur Elon Musk said Thursday he'd received tentative approval from the government to build a conceptual "hyperloop" system that would blast passenger pods down vacuum-sealed tubes from New...
There was the infamous Hong Kong "killer pitch", an 11th-hour cancellation of a Manchester derby in Beijing and now Arsenal players struck down with food poisoning in Shanghai. Add to that searing...
