Michael Clarke was on Monday retained as skipper of Australia’s Twenty20 squad for July’s series with Pakistan in England despite his below-par batting performances in T20 cricket.

An Australian woman who had gone to meet a man she befriended on social networking site Facebook has been murdered, a media report on Saturday said.

A 16-year-old Australian who spent seven months at sea in her pink yacht sailed across the finish line of her round-the-world journey on Saturday, becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted.

Sydney: An Australian physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century.