Embattled Australian carrier Qantas said on Sunday it would hand out 100,000 free air tickets in a bid to win back passengers after the shock two-day grounding of its global fleet.

Some 70,000 travel

Australian carrier Qantas on Friday diverted one of its A380s due to engine problems, a year to the day after a turbine blast, in the latest public relations setback after a shutdown grounded its flee

Spin legend Shane Warne is in negotiations to come out of retirement and make a comeback with the Melbourne Stars in Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 League, the club said on Friday.

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Australia's Qantas was preparing to return to the air for the first time in two days today, after an industrial tribunal ordered it and unions to halt a bitter row that grounded all its planes.
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Australian flag carrier Qantas on Saturday took the "unbelievable" step of grounding its entire domestic and international fleet indefinitely in an escalating industrial dispute.

Former India coach Greg Chappell, in his new book "Fierce Focus", claims batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has occasionally been mentally fragile.

Tendulkar is idolised by millions in India and the cr

Researchers have revealed how a common hospital pathogen turns into a deadly superbug, killing more and more patients worldwide.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea's remote New Britain region on Tuesday, but was unlikely to cause a tsunami, Australian seismologists said.

The US Geological Survey said the quake

The Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea was jolted by a 6.7-magnitude undersea earthquake on Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred at a dep

Australia's fast bowler Brett Lee on Monday underwent surgery for appendicitis in Cape Town and a decision on a replacement will not be taken until the one-day series against South Africa begins next