Wales and the United States set the Australian round of the IRB Sevens series alight in the opening round with shock wins over Fiji and England here Friday. Tournament favourites New Zealand and Samoa safely negotiated their way through their first matches but elsewhere the form book was thrown away. A stirring second-half performance by Wales, who languish a lowly ...

As people across the South Pacific headed for the hills on Sunday fearing giant waves, Australian swimmers and surfers did the opposite and flocked to the beach. Australian officials said there would be "no wall of water coming over the horizon" after an 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chile and sent waves racing across the Pacific. East coast beaches were closed ...

As people across the South Pacific headed for the hills on Sunday fearing giant waves, Australian swimmers and surfers did the opposite and flocked to the beach. Australian officials said there would be "no wall of water coming over the horizon" after a 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chile and sent waves racing across the Pacific. East coast beaches were closed ...

A huge arc of Pacific nations from New Zealand to Japan went on tsunami alert on Saturday after the giant earthquake in Chile, readying emergency plans instituted after the Indian Ocean disaster of 2004. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned dozens of far-flung islands and atolls of possible "widespread damage" from waves generated by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile ...