Angelique Kerber said her dreams came true in just over two hours on Rod Laver Arena on Saturday when she upset defending champion Serena Williams 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to win the Australian Open.
Rafa Benitez kicked off his tenure as Real Madrid boss with a frustrating 7-6 penalty shootout loss to AS Roma in a pre-season friendly on Saturday.
Australia Test skipper Michael Clarke's will captain the Melbourne Stars in Australia's Big Bash League for the next two seasons after not playing Twenty20 for three years.
The two players merely acknowledged each other with a wave before heading off court.
'Even in domestic cricket, we don't have red-ball cricket back home. So the challenge for us is to make yourself ready in such a short time.'
Forty years have passed since Chris O'Neil held the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup aloft as the last Australian women's champion in 1978.
At this year's Australian Open, the ladies brought back shorts centrestage.
Jannik Sinner accepts that his rangy physique is probably never going to attract that much attention.
Reader M Prasad spotted the former Pakistan bowling ace in Melbourne.
British world number 55 Jack Draper had no time to enjoy sealing what he described as one of the most satisfactory wins of his career at the Australian Open on Tuesday as he was forced to race to a courtside bin to throw up.
Australian leaders on Saturday expressed deep shock over the sudden demise of India's Consul General in Melbourne, S K Behera.
Pakistan are already depleted in attack, with injured quick Naseem Shah sidelined and Haris Rauf having opted out of the series to play in Australia's T20 Big Bash League.
Images from Day 2 of the 2024 Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday.
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton has been fined A$500 ($445) but avoided conviction for reckless driving outside Melbourne's Australian Grand Prix circuit in March.
Reader Suyog Mahajan spotted Australian captain Ricky Ponting in Melbourne.
Khurrum Shahzad was one of the few success stories for Pakistan in the first Test against Australia in Perth.
India's tryst with fourth-place Olympic heartbreaks
Rafael Nadal has not played a competitive match since bowing out in the second round of this year's Australian Open.
An Indian student was racially assaulted in a jam-packed bus in Melbourne by a group of three youngsters, who repeatedly hit him and also threw chicken pieces at him, recently in yet another attack on the youths from the community in Australia.
The 20-year-old became the youngest semi-finalist at Melbourne Park since American Andy Roddick, also 20, at the 2003 tournament.
'Modi Express', a special train carrying over 220 passengers who will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first public lecture in Sydney, was flagged off on Sunday by an Australian minister in Melbourne.
Images from Day 8 of the 2024 Australian Open in Melbourne on Sunday.
Victoria Azarenka's hopes of a remarkable comeback Australian Open victory crumbled under Angelique Kerber's winners on Wednesday but the Belarusian was pleased with solid three weeks Down Under that made her feel she had turned a corner.
The Indian athletics team probables for the Commonwealth will be sent for advanced training to the two cities
Coco Gauff eked out a victory to reach her first Australian Open semi-final on Tuesday.
According to the Economic Intelligence Unit's new Global Liveability Survey, Melbourne dislodged Vancouver to become the best city in the world to live.
Many of the world's greatest athletes from 71 nations will compete in the Commonwealth Games to be held at Melbourne in March 2006.
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Reader Chandan Venkatapathy sent us pictures of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza from Melbourne.
Former Indian opener Wasim Jaffer expressed his disappointment with fans trolling Indian all-rounder and Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya for his poor performances in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), saying that during the T20 World Cup starting from June 1 in West Indies and USA, the all-rounder will play some crucial knocks and the trolls will be singing his praise.
Vidya Balan was announced the brand ambassador of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne for third consecutive year.
Novak Djokovic kept cool in stifling Melbourne heat to kick off his Australian Open title defence with a straight-sets thrashing of Italian Paolo Lorenzi.
A Malaysia Airlines aircraft carrying more than 300 passengers made an emergency landing at Melbourne airport on Friday after a reported engine fire.
Melbourne Park's first glimpse of Andy Murray was a brief one on Tuesday as the bookmakers' favourite for the Australian Open zipped through to round two in double-quick time when his opponent retired injured.
South Africa rode on twin half centuries by Neil McKenzie and JP Duminy and some late fireworks by Albie Morkel to edge past Australia by three wickets in the opening one-dayer of the five match cricket series in Melbourne on Friday.
Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke has been cleared to take the field in the first one-day international against South Africa at the MCG, in Melbourne on Friday.
IMAGES from Day 10 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Reader Ravichandra sent us this picture from Melbourne.
