Harris fit for his defining Ashes series

Asian giants Iran, South Korea and Australia scrambled into next year's World Cup yesterday after scenes of crowd anger and high tension on the final night of group qualifying. Irate South Korean fans hurled water bottles and other debris after ...

Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed was Wednesday named on the Australia A squad for a tour of Africa beginning next month, despite also being in contention for selection for the Ashes series against England. Ahmed was added to the 15-man squad ...

The Sri Lanka Navy intercepted another boat carrying more than 80 persons to Australia this morning in the Eastern seas off Batticaloa, Navy sources said. The Navy said that it would prevent anyone from fleeing to Australia and for the purpose the ...

Scientists have discovered a new language in northern Australia which contains rare grammatical innovations and a unique combination of elements from other languages. The language, now known as Light Warlpiri, is spoken by approximately 300 people ...

5:13pm BST June 19 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan-born author Michelle de Kretser won Australia's top literature prize on Wednesday, awarded the Miles Franklin award for her novel "Questions of Travel" that follows two people on separate journeys. She ...

Catch the live updates from the hockey encounter between India and New Zealand at Rotterdam.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for Australia increased 0.3 percent and the Conference Board Coincident Economic Index (CEI) also increased 0.3 percent in April. Powered by

A day after US-based body IEEFA slammed GVK's USD 10 billion Alpha coal project in Australia as "a quagmire, not an investment", the Indian infrastructure major today hit back saying it is a "motivated campaign" by activist groups to discredit coal ...

Rotterdam: India`s hopes of securing a direct berth in next year`s World Cup went up in smoke after they were handed a humiliating 1-5 defeat by Australia in the quarterfinal of the men`s competition of the FIH World League Round 3, here on Wednesday. Six top ...