Australia

Former vice president Boakai had garnered 50.89 percent of votes cast, with Weah on 49.11 percent with more than 99.5 percent of the polling stations tallied following Tuesday's second-round poll, said electoral commission head Davidetta Browne Lansanah.The results have been frozen at a large proportion of the 25 remaining polling…

Judith Durham, Australia's folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79. Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on Friday night after suffering complications from a long-standing lung disease, Universal Music Australia and Musicoast said in a statement on Saturday. She made her first…

Eva Karpani © Getty ImagesProp Eva Karpani thundered over for a hat-trick of tries as Australia upset France 29-20 in their women's WXV1 tournament test in Dunedin on Saturday. It followed New Zealand's 70-7 trouncing of Wales and left England as the only unbeaten team after two full rounds of the top-tier six-nation tournament. Third-ranked…

A year since the Indian hockey teams regained space in the national consciousness with exceptional performances at the Tokyo Olympics, the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) have served a reminder that sports isn’t a mathematical equation with a single definite solution. But, an unsure science with every permutation and process throwing up new…

The sepia lithograph in the National Library was irresistible to the novelist in Robert Drewe. Painted in 1866, a tiny boy in red shorts leans against a milestone on a winding English country road. On the milestone is a winner’s sash. John Day was the “Child Phenomenon from Australia”.He was 10 years old, weighed four stone and was undefeated…

Dear colleagues and students I am delighted to announce that the 2022 TB Davie Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Fran Elaine Baum, director of Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide in Australia. The lecture will be a physical event and is organised by the Academic Freedom Committee (AFC),…

One of Australia’s best young talents is on the verge of a life-changing European football contract, with teenage sensation Nestory Irankunda poised to sign with a Bundesliga club.Renowned football reporter Fabrizio Romano on Friday night reported German Giants Bayern Munich were “closing in on (a) deal” to sign Irankunda, who’s just 17 years…

When Australia's Madison de Rozario won the women's T53/54 marathon at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, there were only two athletes on the podium.It was the same when Jess Gallagher and pilot Caitlin Ward won the women's tandem B track cycling sprint finals.Due to the small number of competitors in those events, no bronze medal was…

English pacer Stuart Broad bowled an astonishing spell against Australia in Ashes 2013 at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-street. The home Ashes 2013 series was a memorable one for the English side, where they defeated Australia by 3-0 and won the Ashes urn. England won in Nottingham, London (The Lord’s) and Chester-le-street,…

A close friend of the newlywed who fell to her death from the 11th floor of the Ernst & Young building in Sydney's CBD has revealed she recently complained about 'racism' in Australia and 'mean colleagues'.It comes as loved ones shared photos of victim Aishwarya Venkatachalam's spectacular wedding in January last year - loving images which…