Two Iranian women soccer players have been seen training with the Brisbane Roar after Australia granted them asylum, and they stayed behind as teammates headed home.

Aryna Sabalenka has won her second consecutive Brisbane International title with a straight-sets victory over Marta Kostyuk.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka has advanced to the Brisbane International final for the third year in a row with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Karolina Muchová.

One of Australia's largest banks has agreed to pay a record $160 million in penalties for corporate misconduct.

Australia has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia.

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A new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium in inner-city parkland and a rowing venue in a crocodile-inhabited river have been unveiled as part of a major overhaul of planning for the 2032 Brisbane Games.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has cautioned that the fallout from a vicious tropical storm over the weekend was “far from over.”.

One person has died and several were injured as flooding rains lash the Australian east coast even though it avoided its first tropical cyclone in 51 years.

Schools are closed, public transport has stopped and desperate residents are getting around shortages of sandbags by buying sacks of potting mix as a region of eastern Australia is lashed by wind and rain from a rare approaching tropical cyclone.

Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of an Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by withholding her diabetes medication have been found guilty of her manslaughter.

Novak Djokovic was beaten 7-6 (6), 6-3 by big-serving Reilly Opelka in the Brisbane International quarterfinals.

Australian police say they have seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine from a fishing boat off the coast of Queensland.

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers will become the first government minister from Australia in that key economic role to visit China in seven years.

Ariarne Titmus has set a world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials.

Two more players could be involved in the Australian soccer match-fixing case that has already resulted in three Macarthur FC players being charged.

An English study into the causes of ACL injuries to women soccer players has been launched.

There has been plenty of mystery around Rafael Nadal and his health because he has played just 12 official matches since the 2022 U.S. Open.

Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and new Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner are slated to participate in an exhibition event in Saudi Arabia in October.

Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open with a hip injury after playing just one tournament in his comeback from 12 months on the sidelines.

Elena Rybakina claimed her sixth career title with a 6-0, 6-3 rout of top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka to win the the Brisbane International in a perfect tune-up for the first major of 2024.

Rafael Nadal has concerns over his surgically repaired left hip just two wins and a loss into his comeback from a year-long injury layoff and just over a week before the Australian Open.

Naomi Osaka’s first tournament at the elite level since becoming a mother has ended in a second-round loss to three-time champion Karolina Pliskova at the Brisbane International.

Naomi Osaka’s first win at the elite level since becoming a mother didn’t come easily.

Officials say at least nine people have died in wild weather in the eastern Australian states of Queensland and Victoria.

Former No. 1 and new mom Naomi Osaka has hit the practice court ahead of the Brisbane International as she prepares for her much anticipated return to tennis.

Min Woo Lee has extended his lead to three shots at the Australian PGA Championship after a 5-under 66 to move to 17 under after three rounds.

The National Hockey League is trying to build on its first foray into the Southern Hemisphere — two preseason games between the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyote this weekend — by expanding its street hockey program to Australia.

Sweden has won another bronze medal at the Women’s World Cup with Fridolina Rolfo and Kosovare Asllani scoring in a 2-0 win over co-host Australia.

England held firm despite a red card for Lauren James to beat Nigeria on penalty kicks and advance to the quarterfinals at the Women’s World Cup.

France captain Wendie Renard and all-time leading scorer Eugénie Le Sommer have been given a rest during the 6-3 win over Panama in the Group F finale at the Women’s World Cup.

Veterans Eugénie Le Sommer and Wendie Renard have revived France’s Women’s World Cup hopes with a goal each in a 2-1 win over Brazil to give Les Bleues the lead in Group F.

United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. stands with countries fighting Chinese “bullying behavior” as he starts bilateral talks in Australia aimed at countering Beijing’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

Boeing says it expects to end production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in late 2025.

Indigenous traditional owners have won a court challenge that prevents an energy company from drilling for gas off Australia’s north coast.

Ash Barty signaled the end of the photo opportunities at her retirement news conference in her typically low-fuss, matter-of-fact style: “Righto, that’ll do.”.

Around 500,000 people in Sydney and its surrounding areas have been told to evacuate or prepare to flee floodwaters as torrential rain lashes an extraordinarily long stretch of the Australian east coast.

Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and hundreds of thousands more have been told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast are inundated by the worst flooding in more than a decade.

Parts of Australia’s third-most populous city Brisbane are under water after heavy rain brought record flooding to some east coast areas and killed eight people.

Australia’s most populous state has reinstated some restrictions and suspended elective surgeries as COVID-19 cases surged to another new record.

Voluntary euthanasia has become legal in a fifth Australian state, more than 20 years after the country repealed the world’s first mercy killing law for the terminally ill.

The Olympics head down under in 2032 when Brisbane becomes the third Australian city to host the Games.

Brisbane has been picked to host the 2032 Olympics.

Australian swimmer Cate Campbell has incorporated something new into her fine-tuning as she prepares for a fourth Olympics.

A city in northern China is offering rewards of 500 yuan ($77) for anyone who reports on a resident who has not taken a coronavirus test. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)BRISBANE – A city in northern China is offering rewards of 500 yuan ($77) for anyone who reports on a resident who has not taken a recent coronavirus test. China on Friday reported 53 new cases, including 33 in Hebei. Quarantine workers would be tested for the virus daily. Authorities in Brisbane are locking Australia’s third-most populous city down for three days beginning Friday evening to contain the spread.

BRISBANE Top-ranked Ash Barty will not defend her French Open title because of concerns over traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic. After skipping the U.S. Open, which is being contested in New York without crowds, Barty has also decided against traveling to Europe for an event in Rome starting Sept. 14 and the Sept. 27-Oct. 10 French Open. Last years French Open was the most special tournament of my career so this is not a decision I have made lightly, Barty, who won her first major title on the clay courts of Roland Garros, said in a statement Tuesday. Nadal is expected to return to the French Open, which was postponed in May during the height of the lockdown. Organizers of the Australian Open remain confident the season-opening major will go ahead as scheduled in Melbourne in January.

Queensland state police community liaison officers hand out face masks to people gathering for the Black Lives Matter protest in Brisbane on Saturday, June 6, 2020. Black Lives Matter protests across Australia proceeded mostly peacefully Saturday as thousands of demonstrators in state capitals honored the memory of Floyd and protested the deaths of indigenous Australians in custody. South Koreas caseload peaked in late February and early March when it recorded hundreds of new cases each day. The new cases in recent weeks have been linked to nightclubs, an e-commerce warehouse, church gatherings and door-to-door sellers in the Seoul metropolitan area. It is on guard against imported cases as it begins to ease restrictions on flights and people arriving from abroad.