Japan's four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka made global front and backpage headlines after emerging for her first match in Melbourne this week holding a white parasol complete with matching wide-brimmed hat and gauzy veil. She took those off for th...

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Play will start in Melbourne at 10:30 am on the main arenas, compared to the normal 11:00 or 11:30 am. Other courts will start match action as early as 10:00 am, with organisers warning spectators to take precautions against the extreme heat and su...

In just 17 months as party chief, he has swept aside rivals and centralised authority in an aggressive reform drive officials describe as a "revolution". The Southeast Asian nation of 100 million people is both a repressive one-party state and a re...

The 18-year-old was undaunted against the Italian, storming home 6-2, 7-6 (7/3) to make the last 16 at a major for the first time. She will play Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva for a place in the quarter-finals. "It feels amazing," said Jovic of bea...

Japan's four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka made global front and backpage headlines after emerging for her first match in Melbourne this week holding a white parasol complete with matching wide-brimmed hat and gauzy veil. She took those off for th...

Play will start in Melbourne at 10:30 am on the main arenas, compared to the normal 11:00 or 11:30 am. Other courts will start match action as early as 10:00 am, with organisers warning spectators to take precautions against the extreme heat and su...

In just 17 months as party chief, he has swept aside rivals and centralised authority in an aggressive reform drive officials describe as a "revolution". The Southeast Asian nation of 100 million people is both a repressive one-party state and a re...

The 18-year-old was undaunted against the Italian, storming home 6-2, 7-6 (7/3) to make the last 16 at a major for the first time. She will play Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva for a place in the quarter-finals. "It feels amazing," said Jovic of bea...

Investors were also preparing for next week's Federal Reserve meeting following data broadly in line with forecasts and after US prosecutors took aim at boss Jerome Powell, raising fears over the bank's independence. Sentiment has picked up over th...