Australia's Hopman Cup campaign got off to a bad start with Romania's Sorana Cirstea
upsetting world No.13 Sam Stosur in the opening match on Saturday.

Reborn crowd-puller Marcos Baghdatis, convinced he can shake the Australian Open
again, has rated the Brisbane International open for the taking.

A Qantas A380 Airbus has become the first of the giant airliners to fly passengers
over Antarctica.
It took 450 revellers out of Melbourne to see in the new year, partying and

The last dregs of champagne have been drained, the fireworks are forged in the
memory and those New Year resolutions have probably already been broken.

A man from far north Queensland spent a lonely New Years Eve trapped in his car at
the bottom of a cliff.

A man will undergo surgery for a bullet wound after a police officer shot him in the
arm following a car chase in southern Queensland.

A boat carrying 58 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted by the Australian
navy just north of Ashmore Islands.

A special deal from the Australian government may be needed to lure almost 250 Sri
Lankan asylum seekers off their boat, Indonesian officials say.

An Australian man has been arrested at Bali airport after customs officers found two
grams of marijuana in his luggage.

Flood watches are in place for seven northwestern NSW rivers and more rain is likely
across much of the state.
Yet experts say the drought hasn't broken.