
Nov 8 - By Associated Press
Thousands of fans lined fairways and TV network helicopters circled overhead as Tiger Woods played his first round of golf in Australia in 11 years Tuesday. Complete Story...
Nov 10 - By Associated Press
It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car — and no clothing.

Nov 4 - By Associated Press
Australia launched an investigation Thursday into an oil rig leak that dumped thousands of barrels of fuel into the Timor Sea over more than two months before being plugged this week.
Nov 4 - By Associated Press
A psychiatric patient was charged Thursday with two counts of murder in the overnight stabbing deaths of two men who were also patients at an Australian hospital.

Nov 3 - By Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press Writer
In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection for females is, apparently, having sex with the neighbors, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.
Nov 3 - By Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
Australia's central bank raised its key interest rate Tuesday by a quarter percentage point for the second month in a row, declaring the global downturn over and warning that inflation was set to rise.
Nov 2 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The surveillance video makes your blood run cold. A young mother on a train platform lets go of the stroller holding her 6-month-old son for an instant. As if nudged by an unseen hand, the stroller rolls toward the tracks a few feet away. As the woman scrambles desperately to recapture her precious cargo, the stroller topples off the platform and lands upside-down on the tracks — just as a train rolls into the station at 20 mph.
Nov 1 - By Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
Planes and ships searching a remote patch of the Indian Ocean found no signs Tuesday of additional survivors from the sinking of a suspected asylum-seeker boat. Eleven people were believed missing, while 27 were rescued.
Oct 29 - By Niniek Karmini, Associated Press Writer
Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia's coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea, officials and fishermen said.
Oct 29 - By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Writer
Beijing is sending a top-level official to Australia this week for the first time since a series of rows sent relations plummeting between the Asian giant and one of its key suppliers of raw materials.

Oct 25 - By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Writer
Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday.

Oct 24 - By Associated Press
Thousands of people ate breakfast on the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the iconic steel span was transformed Sunday into a grassy picnic ground.
Oct 22 - By Associated Press
An 88-year-old man accused by Hungary of Nazi war crimes during World War II surrendered to Australian police Thursday after exhausting his appeals against extradition.
Oct 22 - By Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday. He was 75.
Oct 20 - By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Writer
Australia does not want its forces to be in Afghanistan "a day longer than is necessary" and plans to hand over security to domestic forces it is training in a troubled southern province in three to five years, the defense minister said Wednesday.
Oct 20 - By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Writer
A leech found at a crime scene eight years ago led Australian police to a man who admitted robbing an elderly woman in 2001, officials said Tuesday.

Oct 18 - By Associated Press
One of Australia's most popular tourist trains, The Ghan, derailed after hitting a cow in the Outback, train company officials said Monday.
Oct 18 - By Associated Press
Energy company Chevron Corp. said Sunday it has made an additional discovery of natural gas in the giant Gorgon gas field being developed off the northwest coast of Australia.

Oct 17 - By Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
A 16-year-old Australian steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor on Sunday to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.

Oct 16 - By Associated Press
A 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his mother let go for an instant.

Oct 15 - By Associated Press
Five Muslim men were convicted Friday of plotting Australia's largest terrorist conspiracy as part of a bid to force the government to change its policy on Middle East conflicts.
Oct 13 - By Associated Press
John Daly will play in the Australian Open and Australian PGA golf tournaments in December after recovering more quickly than expected from a rib injury.
Oct 12 - By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Writer
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd confirmed on Tuesday that he telephoned Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono about Australia's influx of asylum seekers before the Indonesian navy reportedly intercepted a boat load of 260 Sri Lankans bound for Australia at the weekend.
Oct 11 - By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Writer
Australia will resettle 42 Afghan men who survived a boat explosion that killed five fellow asylum seekers in Australian waters in April, an official said on Monday.
Oct 7 - By Associated Press
A man accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge has pleaded not guilty to her murder.