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Australian swimmer Kenrick Monk, who caused outrage when he and teammate Nick D'Arcy were pictured posing with shotguns, slammed his Olympics punishment as 'brutal' on Friday.

Australian shooter Alethea Sedgman was faced with a domestic dilemma after being selected ahead of her boyfriend for a berth on the shooting team for the Olympics.

Mike Hesson, who recently quit as Kenya's national cricket coach citing security concerns, was Friday appointed to take the reins of the New Zealand team.

Australian basketball officials on Friday said they would review travel policies after stinging criticism that the men's team travelled to the London Olympics in business class but the women in economy.

A Chinese national was one of two people arrested when drugs worth Aus$128 million (US$133 million) were seized in Sydney, Australian police said on Friday.

(Reuters) - New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has appointed Mike Hesson as head coach of their cricket team until the end of the 2015 World Cup, the governing body said on Friday. Hesson, a career coach with no experience as a player at senior level, replaces John Wright who declined an offer to extend his contract earlier this …

India has topped Britain and China to become Australia's leading source of migrants for the first time, data revealed Friday, with seven of the top 10 source countries now in Asia.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Two visitors from Australia were killed in a fiery small plane crash in Alaska's interior, the Alaska State Troopers said on Thursday. The Piper PA32 crashed on Wednesday about 39 miles north of Fairbanks, the troopers said. Searchers alerted to the plane's emergency located its burning wreckage …

Australia's Adam Scott flirted with golfing history at the Open Championship at Royal Lytham on Thursday before settling for a six-under par 64 and the first-round lead.

Australia's top spy warned of the "very real threat" from extremists on Thursday, in the first public address by the head of the country's Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in its 60-year history.

Australia's Olympic badminton preparations suffered a blow when three of the team were hit by a bout of food poisoning at their pre-Games training camp in England.

* Scott equals Lehman's Lytham record * Australian sets first-round pace (Adds quotes, detail) LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 19 (Reuters) - It was "justlike a nice walk in the park" for Adam Scott as the laid-backAustralian equalled the course record with a spectacularsix-under 64 in the British Open first round on Thursday. …

Abu Dhabi's fast-growing Etihad Airways says it has received approval from the Australian government to boost its stake in Virgin Australia to as much as 10 percent.

LONDON (Reuters) - Australian shooter Russell Mark is planning to sneak off in the night to see his wife, also a competitor at the London Olympics, after accepting that he cannot share a room with her in the athletes' Village. The six times Olympian, a Double Trap gold medalist in the 1996 Atlanta Games, had made headlines …

The handful of wintertime residents at an isolated Antarctica research station recently got a break from austral winter's 24-hour darkness when a shimmering aurora blazed to life over their lonely outpost in the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

LYTHAM ST ANNES (Reuters) - Australian Adam Scott fired a spectacular six-under-par 64 to snatch the early lead in the opening round of the British Open on Thursday. The world number 13 appeared to be on course for a 63, which would have tied the record for any of the four major championships, but he dropped a stroke at …

LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 19 (Reuters) - AustralianAdam Scott fired a spectacular six-under-par 64 to snatch theearly lead in the opening round of the British Open on Thursday. The world number 13 appeared to be on course for a 63, whichwould have tied the record for any of the four majorchampionships, but he dropped …

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Flagship Australian airline Qantas said Thursday it was ditching BlackBerry for Apple's iPhone and rolling out in-flight iPad entertainment streaming, dealing a blow to the US firm's rivals.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Queensland Reds' serial escapes from the brink of elimination have marked them as Super Rugby's Houdini act, and they face another test of their guile as they take on the Sharks without Quade Cooper in the first week of the finals. The mercurial flyhalf was banned for a game for a rough tackle …

A New Zealand meat company has recalled several of its products after tests showed a possible link to a listeria outbreak that left two patients dead at a hospital in the island nation.

Fiji's military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama would not be surprised if his opponents were trying to kill him, he said after news of an assassination plot emerged in New Zealand.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand meat company has recalled several of its products after tests showed a possible link to a listeria outbreak that left two patients dead at a hospital in the island nation.