Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in flood-hit Queensland province of Australia and expressed his readiness to extend India's help to the country.

Belgium's Justine Henin came back from a set down to beat Indian qualifier Sania Mirza 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 in a torrid first round clash at the Australian Open on Monday.

Rafael Nadal and Caroline Wozniacki will carry top seedings into next week’s Australian Open, reflecting their No. 1 rankings in men's and women's tennis.

The Australia's cricket team, on the verge of losing the Ashes series to England, will soon have a new team manager — an expatriate Australian whose current position is operations manager for England'

Jonathan Trott posted his third century in five Ashes Tests to propel England closer to a series victory in the fourth Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday.

Australia on Thursday to Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef for wrongly detaining him on terror charges three years back, saying it was a mistake and hoped that the compensation paid to him will mark the e

Giving out a clean chit to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the Australian police has said that it did not find any breach of law by the whistleblower in his home country.

England has named two captains for its series of shortened matches against Australia — Andrew Strauss for the seven-match one-day series and Paul Collingwood for the two Twenty20 matches.

In-form England batsman Kevin Pietersen was on Thursday fined by a police officer for over-speeding near Geelong in Victoria.

In yet another attack on an Indian in Australia, a 31-year old cookery student was viciously stabbed in the stomach by two men after he finished work in a South Yarra bar early in November.