Australia

Australia has banned “non-essential” gatherings of more than 100 people in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced sweeping new measures on Wednesday, including discouraging travel overseas, reports BBC. But he said schools,...

Australian cricketers Tim Paine and Nathan Lyon said they were humbled to see the “unbelievable” efforts of rescue teams as they visited areas devastated by bushfires. Twenty-seven people have been killed this fire season as huge...

Cricket Australia is all set to visit Bangladesh for a two-match Test series in June, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in a press release on Wednesday. The two-match series, the fourth visit of the Australia...

Australia’s privacy regulator is taking Facebook to court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said Facebook had seriously infringed the privacy of more than 300,000 Australians, reports BBC. The social...

Australia’s economy grew at a slightly faster-than-expected rate of 0.5 percent in the last quarter of 2019, official data showed on Wednesday, in the last reading before bushfires and the coronavirus fully hit. Gross domestic product...

Scientists have identified the world’s oldest asteroid crater in Australia, adding it may explain how the planet was lifted from an ice age. The asteroid hit Yarrabubba in Western Australia about 2.2 billion years ago –...

Australia captain Aaron Finch won the toss and elected to bat in the third and deciding one-day international against India in Bangalore on Sunday. The tourists have made one change to the side which lost the...

Heavy rain fell on bushfires in eastern Australia on Friday for a second straight day, offering further relief from a months-long crisis, but dozens of blazes remained out of control. This week’s wet weather has given...

Rain has fallen in fire-ravaged parts of Australia and temperatures have dropped – but officials have warned that blazes will “take off” again. Sooty rain fell down the east coast, from Sydney to Melbourne, with “torrential”...

Thousands of holidaymakers and locals were trapped on a beach in fire-ravaged southeast Australia Tuesday, as blazes ringed a popular tourist area leaving no escape by land. As many as four thousand people are trapped on...