Australia

News Hour: An Australian Navy survey ship has located a U.S. military aircraft that crashed off the Australian northeast coast at the weekend and left three Marines missing, Defence Minister Marise Payne said on Monday. The...

News Hour: World-renowned indigenous singer Gurrumul has died after a “long battle with illness” aged 46, his management said Wednesday, as Australians hailed his contributions to music. Born blind, the reluctant star never gave any interviews...

News Hour: Taijul Islam wants to be the highest wicket-taker in Bangladesh’s upcoming two-match Test series against Australia, taking advantage of home conditions. “If Australia comes, I will try to be the highest wicket-taker in the...

News Hour: Amitabh Reza Chowdhury’s celebrated crime thriller Aynabaji is going to be screened at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. The annual film festival, which will commence on August 10, will also project a number...

News Hour: Cricket Australia chairman David Peever Thursday went on the attack over suggestions he is running an “extreme” industrial relations agenda, slamming the players’ union for “reckless” tactics in a damaging pay dispute. Peever claimed...

News Hour: Australian captain Steve Smith said Sunday players would not back down in their bitter pay dispute with Cricket Australia. Days after the players boycotted an Australia A tour to South Africa, Smith said the...

News Hour The Australian Cricketers’ Association executive meets on Sunday to decide whether players will boycott this month’s Australia A tour to South Africa after a failure to strike a new pay deal with Cricket Australia....

News Hour: Cricket Australia and the country’s players looked set to miss a deadline to resolve a pay dispute on Friday, potentially leaving players unemployed and threatening fixtures including this year’s Ashes series, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Johnny Depp could face perjury charges in Australia after the deputy prime minister threatened Tuesday to unleash a new chapter in a pet dog case dubbed the “war on terrier”. The “Pirates of the...

News Hour: Australia’s under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is “too big to fail”, a study said Monday. The World Heritage-listed reef is...