1:47 PM AEDT | Australia looks likely to retain its shaky No.1 status in Test cricket after removing three key South African batsmen this morning, leaving the visitors with a difficult task as Perth saviours A.B de Villiers and J.P Duminy occupied the crease at lunch.
12:17 PM AEDT | Before the start of the Brisbane International, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was rapidly back-pedalling from claims he now had the wood over his Australian Open conqueror, Novak Djokovic.
9:18 AM AEDT | Australias hopes of raising the flag at the Brisbane International have crashed after Queenslander Samantha Stosur was ushered out by Czech Lucie Safarova.
7:22 AM AEDT | Rising sea levels could lead to extra naval deployments to deal with increases in illegal migration and fishing, a Defence Force analysis says.
4:00 AM AEDT | For Australian tennis, it will be another challenging year.
4:00 AM AEDT | The cricket field, like the political, is an exposed place; in cricket, as in politics, the end can be public, protracted and merciless.
4:00 AM AEDT | SELDOM has a dead rubber carried such significance. The direction of a new era of Australian cricket could be determined today, as Ricky Ponting's rookie bowling attack attempts to shut down the South Africans on a slowly deteriorating wicket.
4:00 AM AEDT | Is Roman Abramovich looking to sell Chelsea? The club insists its Russian benefactor remains committed to his west London adventure.
4:00 AM AEDT | FIVE months after successfully panning for gold, Michael Phelps will next week return to Beijing to sign off on an historic "seven-figure" sponsorship, the largest endorsement deal for a Westerner in China's history.
4:00 AM AEDT | Melbourne Victory registers third triumph over Adelaide this season and now has 32 points with a goal difference of plus eight.
1:00 AM AEDT | MELBOURNE'S Jewish community is mourning the loss of Greg Sher, an Australian soldier killed by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
1:00 AM AEDT | STUDENT assignments from the University of Wollongong were used without the students' knowledge as part of an alleged ruse to fool the US Government and the space agency NASA into handing over millions of dollars for futuristic scientific research.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Rural Fire Service will enforce a fire ban through large areas of the state today as firefighters struggle to contain three blazes and temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE plan to build a high-speed subway through the inner west is more likely to deliver windfall profits to developers than sustainable inner-city living, Opposition parties, local councils and residen...
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY'S mooted transport makeover is great news for anyone who loves commuting. Essentially, the new "metro" will operate along three lines.
The western line will provide a "corri...
1:00 AM AEDT | IT IS neither Clover Moore nor Nathan Rees who will most influence Sydney over the coming decade. Instead, if he's willing, it will be the Prime Minister who decides the city's future.
Kev...
1:00 AM AEDT | ONE in four Vietnamese-style pork rolls have been found to be unhygienic and experts predict the statistics will worsen as summer heat warms the food to unsafe levels.
1:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIAN sailors are being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres because the navy continues to use illegal asbestos-contaminated parts, years after they were outlawed.
1:00 AM AEDT | Set among the gum trees and grass at Moorebank, the Australian Defence Force's massive main storage facility in Sydney's south-west, Shed 34 appears like any other.
Low-slung and long, the...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE man running the so-called grassroots campaign aimed at stopping controversial new restrictions on pubs and clubs is being paid a consultant's fee by the hotel industry.
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