30 Aug 10 | NEW YORK: Samantha Stosur admits she will enter the US Open undercooked after playing just eight matches in the past 10 weeks.
30 Aug 10 | SYDNEY FC goalkeeper Liam Reddy will learn today if he is free to play against Adelaide United this weekend when the A-League's disciplinary committee decides whether to uphold his controversial red card from the spiteful 1-1 draw against the Central Coast on Saturday night.
30 Aug 10 | RUCKMAN Shane Mumford is hopeful of being fit for Sydney's elimination final against Carlton on Sunday - and admits the extra day's rest may make all the difference.
30 Aug 10 | ONE of Australia's biggest bookmakers has revealed that several punters who backed a North Queensland penalty goal to be the first scoring play against Canterbury - under investigation by the NRL - were also part of the controversial plunge on Melbourne to win the wooden spoon.
30 Aug 10 | THE alleged match-fixer arrested for colluding with Pakistani cricketers has been caught boasting that January's Sydney Test was rigged, a suspicion that led international cricket's corruption watchdog to launch an investigation.
30 Aug 10 | ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA coach Wayne Bennett believes the Dragons are better placed to win the grand final than they were 12 months ago after securing their second minor premiership in as many seasons under his control.
30 Aug 10 | PRETORIA: The Wallabies have tried every method to end their losing ways, but captain Rocky Elsom opted to jolt his teammates with a no-holds-barred dressing-room speech after their implosion against the Springboks at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday night.
30 Aug 10 | After Dick Smith offered $1 million to any young person with a solution to achieving sustainable population levels in Australia, the far-right political party Citizens Electoral Council responded with an offer of its own: $500 ''to the Aussie of any age who comes up with the best bumper sticker message telling Dick where to go''.
30 Aug 10 | As in Australia, most British schools have uniforms. Lynsey Hanley argues that not only do they help instil respect, but they should be stylish and free.
30 Aug 10 | All children might have to wear them but, as Ainslie MacGibbon reports, not all school uniforms are perceived the same way.
30 Aug 10 | RAIL passengers living north of the harbour are being overlooked when the state government considers building commuter car parks. Almost all have been built or will be built in Labor electorates in the south or west.
30 Aug 10 | WITH the Opera House to one side and the Harbour Bridge on the other, hundreds of professional photographers gathered at Campbells Cove to protest against rules restricting photography in public places.
30 Aug 10 | AN ARMY sniper has been forced to apologise to the Chief of Army after circulating a letter accusing him of putting troops' lives at risk.
30 Aug 10 | MEDICATION that greatly lowers the heart rate can cut by a quarter the chance people with heart failure will die from the progressive condition, according to research that experts expect will change standard treatment.
30 Aug 10 | THE veteran Labor speechwriter Graham Freudenberg has diplomatically dipped his toe into the disagreement over the authorship of the landmark Redfern Speech on indigenous dispossession, delivered by Paul Keating.
30 Aug 10 | POWERFUL trade unions have helped scupper the nomination of the Premier's chief of staff, Walt Secord, to join the Legislative Council.
30 Aug 10 | A PERTH company has announced it is set to become the first to do an underwater exploratory drill for gas in the Sydney basin off the NSW coast.
30 Aug 10 | THE anti-pokies independent Andrew Wilkie faces an uphill battle in convincing either Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott to stiffen policies on gambling.
30 Aug 10 | DOZENS of Indonesian detainees who rioted at Darwin's immigration detention centre were protesting against their legal treatment that includes mandatory jail sentences of up to 20 years.
30 Aug 10 | THEY faced the prospect of losing their homes to make way for a transport development. But unlike the Kerrigan family in The Castle, the residents of Leamington Avenue, Newtown, were not forced into a High Court battle to stop the compulsory acquisition of their homes.