February 16, 2021 Serena tops Halep at Australian Open, sets up Osaka showdown Serena Williams was not pleased with the way her play suddenly was slipping in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
February 16, 2021 University handbook encourages staff to adopt gender-neutral language, call fathers the 'non-birthing parent' Staff at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra have been encouraged to ditch the terms "mother" and "father" with the hope of being more gender-inclusive.
February 13, 2021 Australian Open goes quiet as lockdown keeps crowds away Inside an empty Rod Laver Arena, the fluttering of a photographer's camera suddenly seemed all too distracting before a player served.
February 13, 2021 Medvedev in 5, finally, advances to 4th round in Australia Daniil Medvedev finally worked out how to a win a five-setter. All by himself.
February 12, 2021 Australian Open: No-look shot in Serena's win; COVID fan ban If Serena Williams somehow manages to conjure up another on-the-run, back-to-the-net, no-look, over-the-shoulder shot in her next Australian Open match, a local coronavirus flareup means there won't be any spectators to react with the appreciative applause and yells that greeted this one.
February 11, 2021 Australian Open heckler flips off Rafael Nadal, gets escorted out as tennis star laughs in bewilderment Rafael Nadal defeated American Michael Mmoh in straight sets on Thursday to advance to the third round of the Australian Open but not before his match was disrupted by an unruly heckler who was eventually escorted out by event security.
February 9, 2021 Koala causes 5-car pileup on Australian highway, gets a ride home A koala caused a 5-car pileup on an Adelaide, Australia, highway, but was uninjured in the accident. The marsupial hitched a ride home in one of the cars involved.
January 20, 2021 China says Sec. Pompeo is 'doomsday clown’ following allegations of genocide in Xinjiang China’s Foreign Ministry described outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his designation of China as a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity was merely “a piece of wastepaper.”
January 15, 2021 Bindi Irwin recreates family's adorable maternity photo: 'Special moment' Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi recreated an old family maternity photo ahead of the birth of her own child.
January 14, 2021 Australia wants to kill US racing pigeon that made 8,000-mile journey over disease concerns Australian officials are planning to kill a U.S. racing pigeon that managed to survive a whopping 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific.
