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Here's how to watch a 2025 French Open free live stream online from any country in the world as finals weekend arrives at Roland Garros.

Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean are 40 days and some 2,700 nautical miles into their bid to row the 9,000-miles from Peru to Australia.

Deadly storms batter swaths of US, while heavy rain triggers flooding in south-eastern France and Australia

Chair says finances and board’s gender balance must improve, while search for new CEO goes on and Matildas coach to be named in June

Wallaroos dismantled by world No 2 in 45-7 defeat in final Pacific Four Test in Brisbane in a huge setback before the Rugby World Cup

Canada's 45-7 defeat of the Wallaroos in Brisbane was built on physical dominance that has exposed the work ahead of the hosts before August's World Cup.

Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia’s most innovative and internationally recognised writers, has been awarded this year’s Stella Prize for her seventh novel, Theory & Practice – currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

A novel exploring the "messiness of life found in the gap between theory and practice" has won the Stella Prize for one of Australia's most celebrated writers.

This week, Martu writer Karen Wyld had her A$15,000 blackwrite fellowship withdrawn – just hours before the (cancelled) ceremony at State Library of Queensland, where she was to receive it for a fiction manuscript on the Stolen Generations. The Queensland arts minister, John-Paul Langbroek, and premier David Crisafulli had directly…

One of Australia's largest breeding programs for Tasmanian devils has been inundated by floodwaters, forcing volunteers to evacuate the animals to safety.

About 50,000 people are still isolated after powerful weather system dumped months of rain in three days.