Four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy will return to familiar ground this week in search of assurances that his bid to rule the London VeloPark in 2012 is still on track. Hoy was one of the stars of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when he won three gold medals from the sprint, keirin and team sprint, adding to his 2004 ...

Australia's coach Pim Verbeek on Monday said he would step down following this year's World Cup, after steering the team to the tournament in South Africa and their highest ever FIFA ranking. Verbeek, who has also guided Australia to next year's Asian Cup in a successful two-year stint, said he has decided not to renew his contract ...

An Australian child was slashed in a near escape from a crocodile, police said Monday, as a hearing into a fatal attack on a schoolgirl last year reignited debate on managing the predators. The five-year-old girl was swimming off tropical northern Australia on Sunday when she encountered the saltwater reptile, police said. "She received a laceration to her leg and ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Arrow Energy Ltd <AOE.AX> agreed to sell its Australian coal-seam gas assets to Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L> and PetroChina <0857.HK> for a sweetened $3.1 billion, giving resource-hungry China its first bite of Australia's burgeoning coal-seam gas industry. The revised takeover offer, which needs approval from Australian regulators ...