AAP- Ducati's Casey Stoner won his second straight Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix with a comfortable victory over world champion Valentino Rossi.

AAP - Manly not only took down their nemesis team Melbourne they buried them, winning 40-0 to secure their seventh NRL premiership with the biggest grand final thumping in the 100-year history of t

Melbourne enforcer Michael Crocker departs the Storm after Sunday's NRL grand final believing the club has made him a better person as well as a better rugby league player.

A federal commissioner for children could help reverse an alarming increase in child abuse and neglect over the last decade, Families Minister Jenny Macklin says.

Former James Hardie CEO Peter Macdonald was responsible for approving company statements at the time it allegedly misled the public about its capacity to meet asbestos compensation claims, a court

Out-of-contract defender Mark Milligan will not be welcome back at Sydney FC should he eventually give up on his European dream.

Images of Denmark's Princess Mary walking alongside demining experts in Uganda have drawn comparisons with Princess Diana, who waged a vocal campaign against the scourge of land mines.

Neophyte cosmetic surgeons will have to reveal their inexperience to patients before wielding the knife under a new set of disclosure guidelines released Friday.

Richmond have sewn up 10 players, including vice-captain Chris Newman, for at least the 2009 AFL season.

Australia's political leaders have moved to fast track big-ticket infrastructure spending to help shield the economy from continuing global financial turmoil.