21/07/2008 | POPE BENEDICT XVI walked in the footsteps of two popes to conduct an epic outdoor Mass at Randwick racecourse yesterday in front of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. It was an event the Australian Catholic Church believes will mark the reinvigoration of the faith across the nation.
21/07/2008 | GINOLAD, the horse which cost his owners just $900, will be given a chance at jumps racing history on Saturday when he attempts to add the Hiskens Steeplechase to his thrilling Grand Annual and Grand ...
21/07/2008 | FOR the several thousand people who gathered to watch the final Mass on giant screens in Centennial Park yesterday there appeared to be no father and little sun - just a holy ghost.
Contrary to of...
21/07/2008 | ONE of Australia's favourite cars, the Holden Commodore, has topped a new Federal Government list of bad environmental performers.
21/07/2008 | A GROUP of school principals is opposed to the reinstatement of John Della Bosca as education minister, saying his use of offensive language and driving offences breach the Department of Education's code of conduct.
21/07/2008 | AT THE end of yesterday's papal Mass the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, expressed the hope that the seed planted in the Great South Land would "please God, yield a hundredfold har...
21/07/2008 | GREG NORMAN'S incredible revival at the British Open is unlikely to lead to an immediate return to the Australasian PGA Tour this summer.
Even before his unexpected heroics at Royal Birkdale, ...
21/07/2008 | GOVERNMENTS will be forced to consider hoarding water to meet the needs of regional towns dependent on the Murray-Darling river system by the end of next year.
21/07/2008 | A KENYAN teenager who has been running the 800m for only a few months is now an overwhelming favourite for Olympic gold.
Pamela Jelimo, the 18-year-old that no one knew about at the start of the y...
21/07/2008 | PERTH GLORY coach David Mitchell wants Football Federation Australia to join forces with the Federal Government and fund opportunities for Australian coaches in Asia.
Mitchell is preparing for his...
21/07/2008 | AUSTRALIAN Trent Lowe began his first Tour de France hoping to learn. But he is now facing the challenge of helping American Christian Vandevelde win the race.
Lowe is a former mountain biker and ...
21/07/2008 | SENIOR Liberals want Peter Costello to decide whether he will stay or go, claiming the uncertainty surrounding him is becoming increasingly unfair to the rest of the party.
21/07/2008 | IN A SEA of pilgrims, one-year-old Claire Hill, dressed in a little red coat, caught the eye of the Pope.
As his popemobile took its final turn towards the altar at Randwick racecourse yesterday m...
21/07/2008 | A TERMINALLY ill police officer blessed by Pope Benedict before World Youth Day celebrations died in a Lismore hospital yesterday morning after a prolonged illness.
Senior Constable Gary Hill, who...
21/07/2008 | COCKSURE former halfback Adrian Lam's coaching career appears on the slide after the Roosters dumped him as under-20s coach. Lam has been widely touted as an NRL coach of the future but that now seems doubtful after the Chooks hierarchy felt it wiser to replace him.
21/07/2008 | TRAINER Anthony Cummings will step up his assault on next month's $1 million Golden Rose with promising two-year-old Duporth likely to return to racing at Canterbury on Saturday.
21/07/2008 | CHRIS CUFFE cannot escape his tag as the $33 million man. But six years after the former head of Colonial First State left the funds manager with a notorious golden handshake, he is back in the business - only this time doing it for charity.
21/07/2008 | WITH a maroon beanie pulled down over his ears and an umbrella in his hand, Steve Bann did not look much different to any of the thousands of spectators clamouring over the grassy hillocks that line t...
21/07/2008 | THE Pope has left the door open for a face-to-face meeting with Australian victims of sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, with victims' groups calling on him to follow up Saturday's apology w...
21/07/2008 | EXPECTANT women in the Blue Mountains have been told that as of today they can no longer give birth at their local hospital because of staff shortages, and will have to travel to Nepean or Lithgow hospitals.