Former Australia captain Steve Waugh has welcomed the International Cricket Council's (ICC) plan to allow the players to challenge umpiring decisions in Test...

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke is in doubt for this month's West Indies tour for personal...

Skipper Ricky Ponting, who is going through an unusually long form slump, has taken recourse to hi-tech plasma screen gadgetry in a private batting tutorial to help overcome the misery before he leaves with the Australian squad for the tour of the Caribbean...

Melbourne, May 9 : A Sydney school teacher has been sacked for appearing in a sealed nude photo shoot in a magazine with her...

Melbourne, May 9 : According to a survey, cyber bullying is affecting more than one in five young...

Melbourne, May 9 : Eva Mendes has gone topless for a provocative picture shoot in Italy's Vogue...

Washington, May 9 : A new study by researchers at the University of Melbourne has revealed that using a cane might reduce the risk of knee osteoarthritis (OA) progression, a common, incurable joint disease, and the leading cause of disability in elderly...

Canberra, May 9 : An Indian environmentalist has warned that the Nargis cyclone that devastated Burma is a "sign of things to come", as climate change caused extreme weather to increase in...

Melbourne, May 9 : British actor Colin Firth is planning to take a hiatus from...

Islamabad, May 9 : The PCB had suffered a huge loss of Rs 84 crore due to the postponement of the Aussies tour which was to take place in March this year....

PLAINTIFF lawyer Maurice Blackburn has added to Centro's woes through a $200 million class action against the Centro Properties Group and its retail...

WAYNE Swan will use Tuesday's budget to slash $8billion in tax breaks and incentives as part of a dual strategy to help the Reserve Bank place a lid on inflation and to begin dismantling the Howard...

Until two months ago, Tom, 15, from Barellan in the Riverina, was one of the brightest young AFL prospects in the country, with at least six clubs eager to sign him to a scholarship. The Sydney...

EBay says it wants to reduce disputes and restore trust in its marketplace with the PayPal-only plan. Because eBay and PayPal can share information on each transaction, eBay says use of PayPal allows...

The economist, who is due to hand down his final climate change review to federal and state governments later this year, is being accused of using his status to influence a local council decision to...

HYDERABAD: Infotech Enterprises Ltd on Friday announced that it has been awarded a three year contract to provide solutions in geographic information services (GIS) and data management services by...

When Wayne Swan delivers his first budget on Tuesday, he will disclose Treasury's expectation that, after years of declines, unemployment will grow from its record low of less than 4 per cent. The...

THE NSW Government is ducking for cover after it dismissed a popular primary school teacher for appearing nude with her husband in a magazine interview in which the couple described their sex...

About 25 minutes after senior constable Nigel Hoyle used his police radio to report "Mr Carter dropped off. All correct", the 34-year old indigenous man was hit by a truck and killed. ...

The union catch-up strategy, articulated by blue-collar unions in Victoria this week, is noteworthy in that its supporters refuse to accept the wage push will exacerbate inflationary pressures on the...

Qantas passengers can expect delays this month following the breakdown of wage negotiations with maintenance engineers who have promised to take industrial action. Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon...

A great grandmother mugged in Sydney's south for the third time in seven years has called on her attacker to think of his own nanna before striking again. Catherine Norman, 90, from Arncliffe,...

MELBOURNE: Australian authorities have detained 11 illegal Indian workers in New South Wales Riverina who are expected to be deported back to India. "Immigration officers located 12 illegal...

News ) - Australia is investigating allegations that its soldiers mistreated suspected insurgents in prison in Afghanistan, the military said Friday.A senior Afghan National Army commander made the...

Australia so far ahead that only an act of God, or Suzie, can stop them AN UNPUBLISHED question in last weekend's Sun Herald player poll found that 68 per cent of NRL stars believed New Zealand...

Australia will play three Tests, five one-day internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 matches on its tour of South Africa from February to April next year, Cricket South Africa (CSA) has announced. ...

A containership that ran aground Friday morning as it was leaving the Port of Melbourne, Australia, has been refloated. Press reports say the Francoise Gilot, a 1,341-TEU containership operated by...

Three men from Kapunda, north of Adelaide, have been arrested by police over the theft of detonators last month. Three males aged 18, 21 and 22 have been charged with serious criminal trespass and...

TOOWOOMBA'S Catholic community has rallied around a "distraught" mother whose five-month-old baby girl was found dead in the back seat of her car on Thursday. Police confirmed yesterday that they...

A man accused of blackmailing a businessman from Melbourne's northern suburbs has been remanded in custody. Fifty-one-year-old Michel Baini from Preston was arrested Friday morning and has yet to...

AS Australia's rugby league team was preparing to play before several thousand empty seats in Sydney last night, a Dutch violinist declared he could sell out Suncorp Stadium three times over. And on...

QUEENSLAND Health says it is being swamped with patients as it defends blowouts which have pushed surgery waiting lists to record levels. A Queensland Health bureaucrat said the state's public...

PLANS for a $36 million big-box retail development at Launceston Airport are heading back to the Resources Planning and Development Commission after a Supreme Court ruling yesterday. Novak...

HAGLEY Farm Primary School has a new attraction for Northern Tasmanian school pupils. Yesterday, Longford Primary School pupils were treated to a day on the farm as part of Hagley's Dogs, Ducks...

JAMES Pyke was the surprise omission as most of the big guns progressed through to the quarter- finals of the Tasmanian Amateur Golf Championships yesterday. The big hitter from Launceston is a...

IN A strange way, life for Launceston-based former Estonian migrant Anu Mihkleson has come full circle. When she arrived as a three- year-old in Australia nearly 60 years ago with her parents, Oskar...

THE head of the troubled Central Queensland University continued to take his wife on long overseas trips funded by the university despite a horror financial year in 2007 which culminated in the...

THE former head of Queensland's 150th celebrations, now suspended over corruption allegations, claims she was set up because Premier Anna Bligh wanted her person in the job. The ex-principal and...

A 42-year-old school teacher has been ordered to stand trial over alleged sex crimes against a female student. Leonie Beverely Pech is charged with eight counts of having sex with the teenager and...

Licences for the 65 pens at Fremantle's Fishing Boat Harbour - reserved for boats at least 12m long - will be allocated by public ballot next month. Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah...

POLICE believe 64-year-old Valmae Beck may help them solve the mystery of Sharron Phillips' disappearance, writes Peter Michael. Detectives believe child killer Beck may secretly hold the key to the...

LAUNCESTON coach Adam Sanders is expecting the biggest test yet for his undefeated premiership side when the Blues take on Ulverstone in an NTFL blockbuster game at Windsor Park today. Sanders said...

PASSENGER flights between Launceston and Sydney had the worst on-time record in the nation for February. Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show...

MEMORIES came flooding back this week for two former East Launceston Primary School students. The Examiner's story about the old East Launceston jumper being worn by NTFL club South Launceston...

BUYERS are taking advantage of a rush of new property listings, with houses selling an average 20 days sooner than they were last year. An RP Data analysis of the Brisbane property market has...

LAUNCESTON Tornadoes guard-forward Peta Sinclair is hoping having her mum in the crowd to cheer her on will be a good luck charm when the home side takes on the Bendigo Lady Braves in a blockbuster...

A FORMER Labor MP who once complained Queensland Rail was being robbed of funding was a passenger who enjoyed the luxuries of the ALP gravy train. Len Ardill was a member of the Labor transport...

Australia maintained their stranglehold on international rugby league but gritty New Zealand offered hope that this year's World Cup may not be a one-horse race as the Kangaroos notched a 28-12 win...

A MAN has been found guilty of stabbing his wife to death in front of their eight-year-old daughter. Paul Jason Margach, 41, was accused of murdering his wife Tina, 36, by stabbing her with a...

Three men have been charged after police raided an alleged drug lab in Sydney's north-west today. A 26-year-old man was arrested at a house in Mount Kuring-gai, which allegedly had a production lab...