The S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.58% to close at 7,460.2, with energy stocks leading the gains. The benchmark index ended down 0.27% on Wednesd...

Almost seven million people in Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state were scheduled to exit a four-week lockdown on Thursday, but state ...

Australia's third wave of COVID-19 infections, centred on Sydney, has forced more than half the population of nearly 26 million into lockdo...

Sydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia's third COVID-19 wave that threatens to push the country's A...

Residents must stay within 2.5 kilometers of their homes and comply with a 6p.m. curfew as part of the draconian measures introduced to hal...

With more than 3.7 million lives lost globally, many nations are still struggling to contain their coronavirus outbreaks, but the rapid vac...

In past years 1 million people crowded Sydneys harbor to watch fireworks that center on the Sydney Harbor Bridge, but most will be watching...

The 39-year-old played 71 Tests, 207 ODIs and 67 T20Is for the West Indies. He scored over 11,000 international runs and also picked more t...

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures slipped 6 cents, or 0.2%, to $36.75 a barrel at 0159 GMT, while Brent crude futures fell 1...

A raft of European nations including Italy and Belgium took desperate new measures on Monday to try to combat a second wave of coronavirus ...

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.11% lower after U.S. stocks ended the previous session in the red. Austral...

The yen recovered some overnight losses to sit at 106.08 per dollar, as did Australian dollar, though it was 0.1% softer at $0.7117 ahead o...

Investor sentiment was ruffled after the country's second-largest city Melbourne imposed a nightly curfew, as part of the country's harshes...

Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city already under a reimposed six-week stay-home order, has struggled to rein in the disease, with r...

"It's an honour to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. I deem it as a great privilege to join the list of great cricketing luminaries."

Australia has issued a travel advisory asking its citizens to reconsider their travel plans to north eastern states of Assam, Manipur, Naga...

Expanding its global network, Air India has signed a deal with the Australian government to launch daily flights from Delhi from November o...