Lance Armstrong made a cautious return to professional cycle racing Sunday, finishing 64th among 133 riders in a 30-mile criterium in downtown Adelaide.

Lance Armstrong made a cautious return to professional cycling Sunday, finishing well back in a 30-mile criterium in downtown Adelaide.

Lance Armstrong said Sunday he has high hopes the presidency of Barack Obama will see health-care reform in the United States and more money for the fight against cancer.

An Australian woman accused of setting her husband’s genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair has been charged with murder.

An Australian woman has been charged with murder after allegedly setting her husband’s genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair.

A Melbourne-bound Qantas jet was forced to return to Adelaide’s airport Monday night after a door above the one of the wheels failed to close, Australian media reported Tuesday.

Hymns are being replaced at funerals in one Australian city by popular rock classics like Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” and AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” a cemetery manager said Wednesday.At Centennial Park, the largest cemetery and crematorium...

A free-spirited summit aimed at soliciting innovative ideas to strengthen Australia’s future concluded Sunday with wide-ranging proposals, from developing a cure for blindness to a health agency funded by a junk food tax.Some 1,000 experts, activists,...

Nearly 1,000 delegates on Saturday began brainstorming ideas for the country’s future, tackling everything from discrimination against Aborigines to whether Australia should cut its ties to the British monarchy.The group of top experts, activists,...

An Australian man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in jail for shining a laser pointer at a police helicopter and temporarily blinding the pilot.Lanfranco Baldetti, 23, pleaded guilty to prejudicing the safe operation of an aircraft and to a...