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After growing up together on the tennis circuit, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic have yet to meet in a major. That all changes Sunday at the Australian Open.
Low-flying stunt planes and booming cannon fire had Kim Clijsters and Vera Zvonareva a little rattled during their quarterfinals. Come the Australian Open semifinals, they'll have other distractions to contend with.
Li Na is back in the Australian Open semifinals, and the latest seeded player to lose to the Chinese star says she is the woman to beat.
Alexandr Dolgopolov used to knock balls around with some of the top players in the world when he was just a toddler. Even then, the pint-sized kid had some outsized groundstrokes.
An inland sea of muddy floodwaters swamping southeastern Australia pushed its way toward rural communities Tuesday, threatening homes and businesses as the death toll from the disaster climbed.
Holding the No. 1 ranking in tennis is undoubtedly an honor. It also brings a lot of questions for a player who has yet to win a Grand Slam tournament.
The Bryan brothers are more like Warner Bros. at the Australian Open.
The first sign something had gone very wrong came in the form of two loud bangs. A chunk of metal tore through the plane's wing, the aircraft yawed and a flood of emergency warning messages in the cockpit of the Qantas superjumbo sent the crew scrambling into action.
The investigation of the engine failure that grounded Qantas' fleet of superjumbo jets is making progress, manufacturer Rolls-Royce said Monday, while the airline announced that tests uncovered worrying oil leaks in the engines of three more Airbus 380s.
Qantas said the engine blowout on its Airbus superjumbo taking off from Singapore was likely caused by material failure or faulty design, as passengers from the stricken plane left Friday for Australia on other flights.
The chief executive of upmarket Australian department store company David Jones abruptly resigned on Friday after revealing he had acted inappropriately toward a female staff member.
Britain's new prime minister affirmed his support Thursday for the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan but ruled out sending any more troops to the increasingly unpopular war.
A company in Australia came under a cyberattack from China that was intense enough to slow traffic on part of the country's second-largest broadband network, company officials said Thursday.
The white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark Saturday night, one of the first landmarks to turn out the lights in an hour-long gesture to be repeated by millions of people around the world who are calling for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
First gold, then coal and iron ore. Now, a new bonanza is about to be unleashed from beneath Down Under: Australia's got gas.
A local police chief and four officers were arrested Wednesday in central Pakistan after a video allegedly showed one officer publicly beating suspects with a fat leather strap as the other officers held down the victims.
The Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader, who was picked up as part of a recent crackdown on insurgents in Pakistan, will be handed over to Afghanistan, an Afghan government official said Wednesday.
An Australian judge ruled Thursday that an Internet service provider cannot be held accountable for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a test case of a key strategy by entertainment companies to combat online piracy.
Energy giant PetroChina Co. Ltd. has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia, leaving Woodside Petroleum Ltd. looking for new customers.
Paris jazzed up the Eiffel Tower with a multicolored, disco-style light display as the world basked in New Year's festivities with hopes that 2010 and beyond will bring more peace and prosperity.
Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.
Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibition, but the government says the art comes from Pyongyang's propaganda machine and its creators are not welcome.
Australia's Senate on Wednesday defeated the government's plan to implement a carbon pollution trading system to fight global warming, dashing hopes of setting an example for other nations at U.N. climate change talks next week.
Australia's central bank raised its key interest rate Tuesday by a quarter percentage point for the second month in a row, declaring the global downturn over and warning that inflation was set to rise.
Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday. He was 75.
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