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Australia

Farrell leads England to 25-17 win over Australia in second Test

By AFP

Owen Farrell kicked six penalties and a conversion to help England level the three-Test series and set up a winner-takes-all decider in Sydney next Saturday.

  • Officials block off flooded roads next to the old Windsor Bridge, along the overflowing Hawkesbury River in the northwestern Sydney suburb of Windsor on 4 July 2022. Picture: SAEED KHAN/AFP

    Sydney floods force thousands more to flee

    Emergency services have now instructed about 50,000 people to evacuate or to prepare to escape the rising waters in New South Wales, officials said.

    36 days ago
  • People stand next to a flooded petrol station due to torrential rain in the Camden suburb of Sydney on 3 July 2022. Picture: Muhammad FAROOQ/AFP

    Thousands evacuate from 'dangerous' Sydney floods

    Australia has been at the sharp end of climate change, with droughts, deadly bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change.

    37 days ago
  • Blackout. Picture: Free Images.

    Australia suspends electricity market to stave off blackouts

    Australia's energy regulator seized control of the national power grid Wednesday, suspending a market-based system roiled by soaring prices and the threat of widespread blackouts.

    56 days ago
  • Picture: Engin Akyurt/Pixabay

    Top energy producer Australia braces for blackouts

    Newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blamed the energy crisis on the previous government, which was in power for nearly a decade.

    57 days ago
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    Australian KFC patrons clucking mad over lettuce-cabbage switch

    The local price of the verdant leaf has soared by as much as 300% in recent months, forcing the fast-food chain to tweak the Colonel's recipe in some stores.

    64 days ago
  • Australia's new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls his new cabinet ministers to take an oath during a ceremony at Government House in Canberra on 23 May 2022. Picture: SAEED KHAN/AFP

    Australia's new PM heads to Tokyo with climate message

    Australia's new prime minister Anthony Albanese took office Monday, hours before flying to a Tokyo summit with a 'message to the world' that his country is ready to engage on climate change.

    79 days ago
  • Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on 6 January 2022. Picture: STRINGER/AFP

    Australia PM bats away mounting COVID-19 worries

    Australia detected 66 COVID-related deaths and more than 53,000 infections in the previous 24 hours - far more than six months ago when daily numbers generally showed fewer than 20 deaths and 2,000 infections.

    84 days ago
  • People wait for a bus to go in a train station in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, on 7 April 2022, as they flee the city in the Donbas region. Picture: FADEL SENNA/AFP

    Ukraine, 'Five Eyes' justice officials discuss war crimes

    The attorneys general of the US, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada met virtually with Iryna Venediktova, their Ukrainian counterpart, as Kyiv seeks action on thousands of suspected war crimes.

    96 days ago
  • FILE: Athletes arrive for the closing ceremony of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on 15 April 2018. Picture: Ye Aung Thu/AFP

    Australia's Victoria state to host 'bold' 2026 Commonwealth Games

    The 2026 Games will be held in four regional hubs across the state in the towns of Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Gippsland, each with its own athletes' village.

    119 days ago
  • FILE: An autopsy confirmed he had died of natural causes following a suspected heart attack. Picture: AFP

    Shane Warne's body returned to Australia

    Carrying the cricketing great's coffin wrapped in an Australian flag, a chartered Dassault Falcon 7X jet landed in the evening at Melbourne's Essendon North airport after an eight-hour flight from Bangkok.

    152 days ago
  • Cars are stranded in floodwaters due to heavy rain in a southwestern suburb of Sydney on 8 March 2022. Picture: Muhammad FAROOQ/AFP

    Australia floods force tens of thousands to evacuate

    The national weather bureau warned of 'a tough 48 hours ahead' for the city, with 60,000 people subject to evacuation orders and warnings across the affected areas, according to emergency services.

    155 days ago
  • This picture taken on 2 March 2022, shows residents steering their boat through a flooded street in Lawrence, some 70 kms from the New South Wales town of Lismore. Picture: SAEED KHAN/AFP

    Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydney

    Authorities issued severe rain and wind warnings for a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coast as water levels rose rapidly - including in suburbs around Sydney, Australia's largest city and home to five million people.

    160 days ago
  • Australia's batsman Steve Smith acknowledges the crowd's applause as he walks off the field after his dismissal on day two of the second cricket Test match of the Ashes series at Adelaide Oval on 17 December 2021, in Adelaide. Picture: William WEST/AFP

    Fit-again Smith looking to replicate Ashes heroics in Pakistan

    The 32-year-old fell heavily and banged his head attempting a boundary catch in the second Twenty20 against Sri Lanka in Sydney last month, ruling him out of the rest of that series.

    161 days ago
  • A Queensland Fire and Rescue Swift Water Rescue crew move through the flooded streets in the city of Paddington in suburban Brisbane on 28 February 2022. Picture: Patrick HAMILTON/AFP

    Australia tells tens of thousands to flee floods

    Flood warnings were in effect for dozens of rivers across the states of Queensland and New South Wales, where a days-long "rain bomb" has dumped a metre (3.2 feet) of rain on some areas in a week.

    162 days ago
  • A Queensland Fire and Rescue Swift Water Rescue crew move through the flooded streets in the city of Paddington in suburban Brisbane on 28 February 2022. Picture: Patrick HAMILTON/AFP

    Rooftop rescues in Australia as tens of thousands evacuated from floods

    Eight people have died, and the country's weather bureau has warned further severe thunderstorms and intense rainfall will cause 'life-threatening flash flooding' across a swathe of the central Pacific coastal region.

    163 days ago
  • Staff offer souvenirs to passengers upon arrival at the Sydney International Airport on 21 February 2022, as Australia reopened its borders for fully vaccinated visa holders, tourists, and business travellers. Picture: SAEED KHAN/AFP

    'Fortress Australia' re-opens to tourists after two-year COVID closure

    There were jubilant scenes at the country's two major international airports in Sydney and Melbourne Monday as family and friends finally embraced at arrivals after years apart.

    170 days ago
  • A fisheries boat patrols near the fatal shark attack site on Little Bay in Sydney on 17 February 2022, as Sydney authorities deployed baited lines to try to catch a giant great white shark that devoured an ocean swimmer, the city's first such attack in decades. Picture: Muhammad FAROOQ/AFP

    Sydney reopens beaches after fatal shark attack

    A 35-year-old British diving instructor, Simon Nellist, was identified by national broadcaster ABC and other media as the victim of Wednesday's attack, which led the authorities to close a string of beaches including the iconic Bondi Beach.

    173 days ago
  • A fisheries boat patrols near the fatal shark attack site on Little Bay in Sydney on 17 February 2022, as Sydney authorities deployed baited lines to try to catch a giant great white shark that devoured an ocean swimmer, the city's first such attack in decades. Picture: Muhammad FAROOQ/AFP

    Hunt on for great white shark that killed Sydney swimmer

    Drones scoured the ocean from the air, spotters launched on boats and six drum lines were set to try to catch the creature, which is believed to be at least three metres (10 feet) in length.

    174 days ago
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