Aussie players proved a little too much for the Germans playing in the Hockey World Cup final on Saturday, as Team Australia with its speed and brilliant use of tactics managed to win the cup after a 24 year hiatus with a 2-1 win over defending champions Germany...

New Zealand fast bowlers Shane Bond and Tim Southee claimed four wickets each to defeat Australia by 51 runs and take a consolation victory in the final ODI at Wellington on...

Authorities plan to advertise brand Australia with the slogan "Say G'Day to the Lucky...

Sydney, Australia has earned itself the name of being the developed world's most hostile city for...

Fertility doctors in Australia are lobbying for permission to allow parents to choose the sex of their children for social or family balancing...

Tibetans living in-exile in India staged a protest demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy here on Friday to mark the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan Women's Uprising Day which came two days after an uprising led by the Dalai Lama against Chinese rule in...

A young Chinese man survived after being buried for 54 hours in a landslide in Zizhou in Shaanxi...

Bangladesh has decided not to bargain with foreign lenders for lowering loan interest rates in a bid to attract funds from India, China, South Korea and others for funding development projects, officials said...

China has attacked the United States for its continuous interference in other countries' domestic affairs in the name of human right violations, but "covering up rampant human rights abuses on its own...

Chile has called on China to make full use of a free trade deal that helped it become the country's top trading partner, Xinhua...

Hundreds of starving sea lions are washing ashore along the California coast as El Nino weather conditions warm the Pacific Ocean and drive away their usual prey, according to media reports...

Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Power-packed Australia proved third time lucky as they won the men's field hockey World Cup after a 24-year hiatus with a 2-1 win over defending champions Germany on...

Australia won the men's hockey World Cup for the first time since 1986 by defeating holders Germany 2-1 in an absorbing final. Luke Doerner scored the winner in the 59th minute through a penalty...

Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now “99.9 per cent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine,...

And if things go as planned, rural areas will in the near future be bustling with cottage industries modelled on the one-village-one product model started in 1979 at Oita prefecture, a province in...

New Delhi Australia shattered Germany's dream of registering the first hat-trick of world titles in the history of the game, beating the double defending champions 2-1 in the summit clash of the Hero...

(AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)Delegates rise to sing the Chinese national anthem during the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing's Great Hall of...

China's seemingly unquenchable thirst for wine has ousted America as Bordeaux's number one client outside Europe, the latest figures showed.With overall exports down a large 23 percent in 2009,...

Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday said Taiwan universities will soon start accepting students from mainland China. At a dinner with lawmakers, Ma instructed the parliament to speed...

Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains. Severance Hospital spokesman Lee Sung-man said Saturday that Kissinger would be released on...

New Delhi - Australia won the men's field hockey World Cup after a gap of 24 years with a 2-1 victory over defending champions Germany in the final on Saturday. Luke Doerner scored the winning...

Google made its famous announcement about a "new approach to China." Kuo said right out that he doesn't have the "inside dope" about what's happening within Google, but he did...

Economists, Business Leaders Warn Political Tension Could Harm Thai Tourism Industry Thousands of protesters from rural northern Thailand have begun arriving in Bangkok for a rally aimed at toppling...

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Australia won the men's field hockey World Cup after a gap of 24 years with a 2-1 victory over defending champions Germany in the final on...

New Delhi - Australia came third time lucky against Germany in the field hockey World Cup final on Saturday, lifting the trophy after a 2-1 victory. Luke Doerner scored the winner with 11 minutes...

NEW DELHI: Australia won the hockey World Cup for the first time since 1986 by defeating holders Germany 2-1 in an absorbing final on Saturday. Luke Doerner scored the winner for the world's...

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 3, 2010 file photo, a worker checks a CRH h... China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to...

Filed at 7:22 a.m. ET SAIDU SHARIF, Pakistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said,...

It seems that Google may have found the great firewall of China too hard to breach. The UK Financial Times says talks between Shanghai and the world’s largest internet search engine have...

New Internet Controls in China (CBS) Google is "99.9 percent" certain it will have to close its Chinese search engine as talks with Chinese authorities about censorship with the Chinese authorities...

TOKYO — A fairly strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.7 occurred Saturday night in northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicenter of the 9:46 p.m. quake...

NAIROBI, March 13 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING) Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito left Nairobi on Saturday to return home via Rome, finishing his weeklong official visit to Ghana and Kenya. ...

Nairobi+ (AP) - NAIROBI, March 13 (Kyodo)—Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito attended a dinner Friday hosted by Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga at a Nairobi hotel. The prince in a speech...

TOKYO, March 13 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A fairly strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.7 occurred Saturday night in northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The...

plans to return to the bargaining table early in April for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, the Associated Press reported Saturday, citing a news...

Yu Bangli, Chief Economist of Ministry of Railways (MOR), speaks during a press conference on high-speed railway construction and development in China held on the sidelines of the Third Session of...

BEIJING - China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday. China...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Casper Ware had six assists, five steals, four rebounds and a career-high 22 points to lead Long Beach State to a 68-61 victory over Pacific in the Big West Conference tournament...