Новости за 17.07.2015

Greg van Avermaet, one of cycling's nearly men, enjoyed a rare victory when he claimed the 13th stage of the Tour de France on Friday with a late burst of speed in an uphill finale.

The Prime Minister's attack on the Australian sense of fairness is a rash high-wire act and it isn't a crowd pleaser.

Is Bernard Tomic making a late bid for entry into the Hall of Shame after all?

There is so much to look forward to on Saturday afternoon, when the Dogs take on the Cats at Simonds Stadium.

Italian football may have been in the relative doldrums these past few seasons _ its five years since a Serie A club won the Champions League _ but the nation's top teams may now be ready to revitalise their challenge for European honours, says Roma coach Rudi Garcia.

Canberra Raiders skipper Jarrod Croker has admitted he's found it "extremely hard" to receive the same amount of on-field engagement with referees as bigger name rivals like Cameron Smith or Johnathan Thurston.

Friends have remembered Calwell father Brian Basera​ as loving family man and friend who lived life to the full and was "one of a kind".

England midfielder James Milner scored the winner in his first start for Liverpool as the English Premier League club overcame Brisbane Roar 2-1 on their pre-season tour of Asia and Australia on Friday.

Real Madrid manager Rafa Benitez could probably find work as a diplomat if his football career stalled.

Stephen Coniglio limited the impact of Saints on-baller David Armitage last round. But repeating the dose against Gary Ablett when the GWS Giants play Gold Coast Suns on Saturday won't be easy.

The greatest difference between North Melbourne and Essendon wasn't experience, although that was a factor. Nor was it efficiency, even though the Roos tend to score more easily.

Quade Cooper won't be giving up his Wallaby number 10 jumper without a fight.

There is something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue about Michael Cheika's Wallabies squad.

Israel Folau will be under pressure to deliver but says he doesn't feel the pressure to shine

Roosters star Shaun Kenny-Dowall has allegedly had an Apprehended Violence Order application filed against him by his former partner.

Australia's captain-in-waiting can't stop scoring runs. The man in the job now, though, can't seem to find any after another failure in the second Test at Lord's.

Typhoon Nangka barrelled across the western end of Japan's largest main island on Friday.

Five nations have agreed to ban commercial fishing in the Arctic's international waters pending further research on how rising temperatures are affecting fish stocks.

Six supporters of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were killed in clashes with police in Cairo on Friday, security sources said.

Europe's air safety regulator said would-be pilots will be screened for mental illness and those who make the grade subjected to random drug tests to help prevent a repeat of March's Germanwings crash, in which a suicidal airman slammed his jet into a mountainside.

Other than puppy love, what does a $35,000 guide dog give a vision-impaired or blind person that a $100,000 bionic eye or the latest navigation app has yet to deliver?

The nation's two most significant Aboriginal leaders have crafted a plan to secure Indigenous consensus on a referendum question to recognise the first Australians that could be put as soon as the next year's federal election.

On Monday afternoon in November 2003 Frank Lowy, one of Australia's richest men was alone in his office enjoying the glow of having celebrated the bar mitzvah of his grandson Josh over the weekend.

Waking to 20cm of fresh snow, 10-year-old Brooke Stanton was ready for her first snowball fight of the day as the sun rose over Oberon, lighting up a town blanketed with its heaviest snowfall "in 40 years".

When Doreen Cruikshank joined the police in 1971, she wore a uniform dubbed the 'air hostess dress' and gave school lectures on road safety for the first 15 months.