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Defending champions Queensland Reds kept alive their Super 15 playoff hopes with a fighting 13-12 win over the ACT Brumbies in Canberra on Saturday.

(Reuters) - Zack Holmes missed a penalty kick seconds before the final whistle to allow the Queensland Reds to prevail 13-12 over the ACT Brumbies in a dour territorial battle in their Super Rugby match in Canberra on Saturday. Holmes's miss brought a dramatic end to what had been for the most part an uninspiring arm-wrestle …

The world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope will be shared by South Africa and Australia, project organizers announced today (May 25).

(Reuters) - Winger Hosea Gear raised his hand for All Blacks selection with a brace of tries as the visiting Otago Highlanders withstood a late charge by the Auckland Blues to win their Super Rugby match 27-20 at Eden Park on Saturday. Gear, whose omission from a 35-man squad for the world champion All Blacks raised eyebrows …

(Reuters) - World champions New Zealand will stay in New Zealand longer to prepare for away tests against Australia after losing the final Tri-Nations trophy to their arch-rivals last year. The world number one All Blacks have customarily landed in Australia up to a week in advance of tests but will delay their arrival …

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Scrumhalf TJ Perenara emphatically stamped his future All Blacks credentials into the national consciousness on Saturday as the Wellington Hurricanes demolished the Melbourne Rebels 66-24 in their Super Rugby match. The 20-year-old was widely considered unlucky not to have made Steve Hansen's extended …

Australia has hailed a surprise decision giving it a role in a radio telescope project aimed at revolutionising astronomy, vowing to draw on its decades of experience in space science.

Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.

OTTAWA - Col. Jennie Carignan figures she covered 10,000 kilometres of bomb-riddled, dusty roads in Afghanistan as a combat engineer.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Lindsay Lohan's Elizabeth Taylor has her Richard Burton: "True Blood" and "Ugly Betty" actor Grant Bowler has signed on to "Liz & Dick," Lifetime's movie about the couple's tempestuous relationship. New Zealand native Bowler is best known to TV viewers as werewolf Cooter on "True Blood," as well …

Indonesia is due to release jailed Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby in September 2017, a prison chief said Friday, after she had five years slashed off her 20-year term.

LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The world's biggest and most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will be located in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The decision to split the location of the $2 billion "Square Kilometre Array" followed intense …

LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The world's biggest and most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will be located in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The decision to split the location of the $2 billion "Square Kilometre Array" followed intense …

The captain and the navigator of a ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef last year in what authorities have called the country's worst maritime environmental disaster were each sentenced Friday to seven months in jail.

A magnitude-4.7 earthquake has rattled the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch. There are no initial reports of serious injuries or damage.

The captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when it ploughed into an offshore reef were both jailed for seven months on Friday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The world's biggest and most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will be split between the two leading bidders for the project; South Africa and Australia with New Zealand. The decision was made at a meeting of the nations …

Australia said Friday it would "vigorously defend" itself against complaints about its plan for plain cigarette packaging made by Honduras and Ukraine to the World Trade Organisation.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The captain and the navigating officer of a ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef have each been sentenced to seven months in jail.

India's hockey coach ripped into his squad Friday over its pummelling by New Zealand a day before, saying much work remained before the former power was ready for the London Games.

Australia moved to assure its meat export partners and domestic market that its beef was safe after it was linked to an E-coli contamination scare in the United States.

Australian researchers tracking life on the Great Barrier Reef said they have proven a long-debated theory that fish born in marine reserves boost overall ocean stocks by dispersing widely.

Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice will spearhead an Australian contingent at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix in California next week ahead of the London Olympics, according to Swimming Australia.