Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis has been given a two-year suspended sentence over a car incident in Australia which killed his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins. Dennis pleaded guilty to one aggravated count of creating the likelihood of harm, after Hoskins was struck by the car he was driving during a fight outside the...
Labuschagne has hit 10 Championship centuries and 13 fifties in just 30 four-day matches for Glamorgan, after coming to prominence with a starring role in the 2019 campaign ahead of a successful Ashes series. He is best known as a top-order batter, but has also bowled seam, leg-spin and off-spin in county games. Glamorgan will...
Polls predicted a tight race in Australia’s election, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won a second term in a landslide. His rival Peter Dutton has suffered a humiliating defeat, losing even the seat he held for 24 years. Our Australia correspondent Katy Watson breaks down the result – and what it means for the...
Surrey have signed former Australia international batter Kurtis Patterson for three County Championship matches in May. The 31-year-old scored 743 runs for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield over the winter, the fourth highest total, at an average of 57.15. He will join up with Surrey ahead of next week’s trip to Edgbaston to...
An Australian woman accused of cooking a fatal mushroom meal admits to picking wild funghi, lying to police and disposing of evidence, but will argue the “tragedy” was a “terrible accident”. The Supreme Court trial of Erin Patterson, 50, began in the small Victorian town of Morwell on Wednesday and is expected to last six...
ABC Kids Nagi Maehashi’s RecipeTin Eats food website attracts a monthly readership of 45 million page views. Two cookbook authors have accused TikTok influencer Brooke Bellamy of copying their recipes. Nagi Maehashi, the Australian founder of popular food website RecipeTin Eats, said Ms Bellamy’s cookbook contains recipes with “word-for-word similarities to mine”. Ms Bellamy, who...
A miniature dachshund has been found alive and well on Kangaroo Island off the coast of Australia, more than 500 days after she first went missing. Kangala Wildlife Rescue had been working “around the clock” to find the dog, Valerie, since she was last spotted by her owners on a November 2023 camping trip. Georgia...
Aberdeen are close to finalising a deal to sign Australian forward Nicolas Milanovic from Western Sydney Wanderers. The 23-year-old has scored 12 goals in the A-League this season and set up a further six. Milanovic, who is primarily a right winger but can play along the front line, has a year left on his contract...
Five people have downed after huge waves hit parts of Australia at the start of the Easter weekend. Two others are missing off the coasts of New South Wales and Victoria states. On Saturday the body of a man was found in the water at near Tathra in southern New South Wales. It came a...
Seventeen-year-old Gout Gout won the Australian 200m title and broke the 20-second barrier with a wind-assisted performance in Perth. He crossed the line in 19.84 seconds – 0.2secs faster than his own national record, but it was not official record because of a wind speed of +2.2 metres per second. Gout became the second fastest...
A faulty radio antenna contributed to a deadly mid-air helicopter collision at an Australian theme park and resort, transport safety officials say. Four people died – including two British tourists – and several more were seriously injured when the two aircraft hit each other in January 2023, near Sea World on the Gold Coast. An...
Lancashire have signed Australian batter Katie Mack for the first part of the women’s domestic season. Mack will be available for eight One-Day Cup games and three in the T20 Blast running until the beginning of June. The 31-year-old, a regular in the Women’s Big Bash for Adelaide Strikers, is returning to Emirates Old Trafford,...
Australian hooker Julian Heaven will join Premiership side Exeter in the summer. The 24-year-old arrives from Super Rugby’s New South Wales Waratahs having come up through the academy at French side Lyon. Heaven is the second Australian player to seal a summer move to Sandy Park after back-row Tom Hooper agreed to join for next...
Northamptonshire have signed Australian pace bowler Harry Conway on a short-term contract for four County Championship games. The 32-year-old has taken 119 first-class wickets at an average of 28.86, eight of them in three games for South Australia in this winter’s Sheffield Shield. He will be available for the Division Two fixtures against Leicestershire, Lancashire,...
