Новости за 26.12.2015

ACT Brumbies prop Les Leulia'iali'i-Makin spent more time under water than he did on the field in his debut Super Rugby season.

A three-year-old boy was hospitalised after nearly drowning in a Sunshine Coast pool shortly after a teenager was plucked from the surf nearby, paramedics say.

Here's the sports news as seen through the covers of The Sunday Age in 2015

Sydney Kings centre Angus Brandt has a simple message for the New Zealand Breakers: underestimate us at your peril.

The cheeky rescuers ran into the waves to pluck a woman, a child and several men from the ailing boat.

Canberrans flocked to the shops for the annual Boxing Day sales on Saturday.

​Jenny Goldie (Letters, December 20) says we need to phase out fossil fuels and shift to renewables.

A Mexican man once regarded as the world's most obese has died of heart failure at the age of 38, two months after surgery to lose weight.

It was the poster car of the 1980, but now the kids are all grown up and investing in vintage Porsches.

Melbourne Stars face the daunting task of kickstarting their Big Bash League season on Sunday night on the road without their best batsman: Kevin Pietersen.

The start of the holiday exodus has caused long delays at several notorious bottlenecks on roads to the north and south of the city.

China will expel a French journalist who criticised its treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority in the north-western region of Xinjiang, her employer, the weekly l'Obs news magazine said on Friday.

The summer of Mighty Lucky just gets better and better.

A 26-year-old woman has been killed in a head-on collision near Yass in the NSW Southern Tablelands on Boxing Day.

The Magic Millions is out for Breeders Plate runner-up Detective left being scratched at the barrier at Randwick on Saturday, leaving Gimcrack Stakes runner-up Jeanneau to stake her claim as a Golden Slipper type.

Despite a strong focus on domestic violence by governments, police and advocates during 2015, a number of Sydney families were confronted with violence and fear over Christmas.

West Aussies have streamed to the Boxing Day sales - where they are expected to be part of Australia's biggest ever single day sales event.

Flash flooding has left 16 people stranded near Burketown after monsoon rains drench Far north Queensland.

A bayside couple is lucky to be alive after a dramatic Christmas Day rescue in rough Moreton Bay waters, rescuers say.

A woman has been charged over an alleged stabbing during a Christmas Day domestic incident in Sydney's west.

A motorist has been taken to hospital after her car overturned on the Great Ocean Road north of Lorne on Saturday afternoon.

Three Chinese government ships have entered territorial waters near disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, Japan's Coast Guard said on Saturday.

Melbourne Victory midfielder Rashid Mahazi will miss the ailing champion's must win game against Perth Glory on Sunday afternoon after failing to come up following an exhaustive run of matches which saw Kevin Muscat's team play three games in one week before Christmas.

A Japanese woman has been found dead at a tourist site in far north Queensland.

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race has suffered an on water incident before the 628 nautical mile event has got under way on Saturday with the official starting boat taking on water.