Spain’s Anabel Medina Garrigues and Fernando Verdasco won their opening tie at the mixed teams Hopman Cup with a 2-1 win over South Africa in Perth.
Australian veteran Mike Hussey announced on Saturday he will retire from Test cricket after next week’s third and final match against Sri Lanka.
Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur have claimed that they seized a district capital just days after taking control of a major town.
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has met with internal opposition groups as he pushed a new initiative to end Syria’s conflict.
Famously generous mining mogul Clive Palmer has thrown a Christmas party Tuesday at his five-star resort at Coolum, Queensland.
Pope Benedict XVI has prepared to deliver his traditional Christmas Day blessing to thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square.
Spanish cyclist Roberto Heras has reclaimed his crown for the 2005 Tour of Spain after the Supreme Court overturned a positive doping test.
An airlift from Khartoum of sick, elderly and other "extremely vulnerable" South Sudanese has re-started on Christmas Eve.
Several hundred children remain separated from their parents a month after fighting over the key DRC city of Goma displaced nearly a million people.
North Korea has slammed a display of Christmas lights staged by a South Korean church group near the border as an "unacceptable provocation".