Italy came back from the jaws of defeat to record a heart-stopping one-run victory over Argentina and Papua New Guinea (PNG) notched up a one-wicket win over Fiji to give ICC World Cricket League Division 3 a sensational start in Darwin, Australia, on Sunday.

A GROUP of children, ready for their early morning swim class in Darwin, Australia, got a nasty fright when a 1.6m crocodile got there first.

Hundreds of UN employees were evacuated from East Timor today as rival gangs roamed the streets, torching homes and battling with machetes in defiance of foreign peacekeepers sent to quell violence that has plunged the fledgling country into chaos.

TAHNEE Afuhaamango made the most exciting phone call of her life yesterday from the World Down Syndrome Swimming championships in Limerick.

Darwin, Australia: El Nino weather conditions, which can bring drought to Asia and cause flooding in South America, have returned, threatening crops and livestock production across most of south-east Asia, an Australian weather forecaster said.

A court in Darwin, Australia, will decide in March whether a tour guide should face trial for the death of a German tourist killed by a crocodile.