The leaders of Australia’s bid for the 2018 World Cup believe the growing number of European rivals for the tournament could work in their favour.

International Cricket Council (ICC) referee Mike Procter has stood by his decision to ban Harbhajan Singh after the India spinner was found guilty of racially abusing Australia’s Andrew Symonds.

Football Federation Australia chief executive Ben Buckley has confirmed his country intends to bid for the 2018 World Cup.

NEW Munster rugby signing Tim McGann of Australian provincial side Eastern Suburbs turned down a Super 14 contract with the NSW Waratahs in favour of the Heineken Cup champions.

IT’S a day to celebrate our Irishness, but across the world St Patrick’s Day is portrayed as a day of alcohol-fuelled fights, vandalism and abusive behaviour.

Japan is planning to bid for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

THE contents of former Springbok communications manager Mark Keohane’s seven-page report into alleged cases of prejudice in South African rugby have been leaked to the media, with an Australian newspaper carrying renewed allegations against the embattled Bok management team.

An Australian newspaper said today it had been handed an audiotape purported to have been recorded by Saddam Hussein inside Iraq earlier that day.

The US government is aiming to recruit millions of US citizens as domestic informants, it was reported today.

Australia and New Zealand have banned all beef products from 30 countries, including all 15 EU nations, because of fears over mad cow disease.