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Champion Australian snowboarder Scotty James makes history in Utah with a third straight world title in the halfpipe.

Ben Cutting hits 17-ball half century as he joins Max Bryant to star with the bat and keep Brisbane Heat's BBL finals chances alive by beating Melbourne Stars by 10 wickets.

Richard Harris and Craig Challen — who helped rescue 12 boys and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in July — add their names to those campaigning to end extradition proceedings brought by Bahrain by writing a letter to the Thai Prime Minister.

A fire at the training centre of Rio de Janeiro football club Flamengo killed 10 people and injured at least three others on Friday, firefighters said.

Immigration lawyer Reuben Saul says there's a condition in the Citizenship Act specifically for elite athletes that could fast-track Bahraini refugee Hakeem al-Araibi's Australian citizenship.

He won three World Cups as a player, including two as captain, and now Ricky Ponting finds himself part of Australia's preparations for the upcoming tournament in England.

The body recovered from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the English Channel has been identified as that of Cardiff City record signing, Emilano Sala.

AFLW is a target for Twitter trolls but it can rise above social media abuse if it promotes its many virtues rather than respond to the critics, writes Richard Hinds.

James Nitties equals the world record for successive birdies at the men's Vic Open, while fellow Australian Su Oh lights up the women's tournament with a hole-in-one.

Stawell Athletics Club reduces prize money for Stawell Gift after major sponsors fail to jump on board for what was Australia's biggest prize pool for a footrace.

Salvage crews working on the wreckage of the light plane which went down in the English Channel with professional footballer Emilano Sala on board say they have recovered a body.

In a story that could have come straight from Tinseltown, the besieged Adelaide Lightning basketball team is defying financial pressure and threats of folding to play in its first grand final in 11 years.

Mitchell Starc's tough summer hits another setback, with the paceman ruled out of Australia's ODI and T20 tour of India by a serious pectoral muscle injury.

Ciaron Maher and David Eustace take over at Darren Weir's Ballarat stables, after the disgraced racehorse trainer's ban from racing for possessing outlawed jiggers.

Two-time grand slam winner Petra Kvitova — fresh from an emotional run to the final of the Australian Open — testifies in the trial of the man who allegedly attacked her with a knife in her home.

A record prize purse for Australia's best experienced and up-and-coming female golfers is available at this week's Vic Open, which is expected to drive growth in the women's game.

Australia has gone a long way towards winning "back the respect" of the public. But with a long winter abroad, brutal English crowds and the return of Steve Smith and David Warner, tougher tests of the new approach lie ahead, writes Geoff Lemon.

Darren Weir is given a four-year racing ban, with a Racing and Disciplinary Board (RAD) judge saying the Melbourne Cup-winning trainer will now always be remembered for his association with "instruments of cruelty".

The NRL says there is "no place" for Ben Barba in rugby league after its integrity unit find he was involved in a physical altercation with his partner.

A stoush between the governing body of Territory AFL and its own umpire league is continuing, following calls for harsher penalties for those who abuse umpires.