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Australia loses to Brazil at Olympics basketball | AFP - An Australian side lacking NBA star centre Andrew Bogut came up short in its Olympic opener, falling to a Brazil team with four NBA standouts 75-71 on Sunday in round-robin Group B play. | Lea... (photo: Creative Commons / Keith Allison) France24 Basketball Olympics Photos Sport Wikipedia: Andrew Bogut |
Tiger Australia still a drag on parent | Tiger tanks but is on the improve. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui | THE Australian offshoot of Tiger Airways narrowed its losses in the first quarter but has warned it will take longer than expected to t... (photo: Creative Commons / 713 Avenue) Canberra Times Aerospace Australia Losses Photos Wikipedia: Tiger Airways |
10 domestic flights cancelled | MANILA -- Two leading airlines in the country cancelled some of their flights Sunday due to bad weather brought by Tropical Storm Gener, television reports said. | Cebu Pacific cancelled six of its ... (photo: WN / RTayco) Sun Star Airlines Photos Transport Weather Wikipedia: Cebu Pacific |
Scores killed in North Korea floods | Flooding across North Korea this month has killed 88 people, left tens of thousands homeless and devastated | swathes of farmland, state media has said. | A week of floods "caused by typhoon and dow... (photo: AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) Al Jazeera Disaster Flooding North Korea Photos Wikipedia: North Korean famine |
Olympic shooting: South Korea's Jin Jong-Oh wins 10m air pistol gold | Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | South Korea's Jin Jong-Oh claims gold with his final shot in the men's 10m air pistol final at the Royal Artillery Barracks ... (photo: AP / Charlie Riedel) BBC News 2012 Olympic Games Photos S.Korea Sportstar Wikipedia: Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's 10 metre air pistol |