Australia

New Delhi: Veteran fast-bowler Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of the upcoming India-Australia T20I series after testing positive for Covid-19. The 32-year-old pacer has not reached Mohali, where the first of the three T20Is against…

Mumbai: The 2022 edition of the Asia Cup, which was scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka, has been shifted to the UAE, the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly confirmed, here on Thursday. "Asia Cup will be in UAE, as it is the only place where…

Canberra: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an emergency national cabinet meeting to discuss the escalating coronavirus crisis in the current winter months. Albanese said he will meet with state and territory leaders…

New Delhi: A week after the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) launched a $60 million emergency food and nutrition assistance for three million of the most at-risk Sri Lankan nationals, Australia came forward with 22 million…

Doha (Qatar):The Australia men's football team, with a world ranking of 42, secured qualification for a fifth consecutive FIFA World Cup on Tuesday, recording a historic 5-4 win over world No. 22 Peru, in a dramatic penalty shootout at the…

Melbourne: Pat Cummins, the Australia Test skipper, is reportedly the highest-paid cricketer in his country with a news report saying that the pace spearhead earns a cool AUD two million a year. A report in Sydney Morning Herald and The…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on Tuesday reviewed the multi-dimensional cooperation under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Cooperation under the partnership includes in…

New Delhi: Italy, Sweden, Australia and Canada have joined a slew of countries with confirmed cases of monkeypox, signalling a global outbreak. Health officials in Australia have confirmed a case in Victoria and another likely case in…

Sydney: Health authorities in Australia's New South Wales (NSW) confirmed on Friday that the Omicron sub-lineage BA.4 was detected in the state. NSW Health reported that the state's first case of BA.4 was a traveller who returned from…

Sydney: Australia's two-year drop in influenza cases have ended as flu numbers are on the rise ahead of winter here. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, when large sections of the population were in lockdown and international borders were…