Next month's $1.5 million Australian Open lost some significant lustre on Thursday
when Greg Norman withdrew from the event.

Evans shocked the racing fraternity earlier this week when he quit powerhouse
Belgian outfit Silence-Lotto to join second-tier US team BMC, which doesn't have a

The vacuum left in Afghanistan by exiting Dutch troops must be filled urgently,
Defence Minister John Faulkner said as he called on newly re-elected President Hamid

Bert Newton ripped off his hairpiece and was brought to tears as he led tributes to
his good friend, the late TV legend Don Lane, at a public memorial.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has defended his response to a massive oil spill
in the Timor Sea, saying he and his department acted quickly and thoroughly to

A psychiatric inmate is on suicide watch after being charged with the stabbing
murders of two fellow inmates in a low-security unit of their secure Melbourne
hospital.

Threatened, verbally abused and told to leave Fiji or else, Professor Brij Lal says
being an Australian citizen may have saved his life.

As the federal government seeks another extension for the Oceanic Viking to remain
in Indonesian waters, its claims that the 78 asylum seekers on board are already

Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek has left Celtic striker Scott McDonald out of his squad
to face Oman and hinted the door is open for an A-League bolter to take his place at

Defence Minister John Faulkner will meet his US counterpart and other senior
officials on Thursday to discuss the war in Afghanistan.