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Are Olympic athletes from Australia or the Americas at a disadvantage compared to athletes from Europe, given how far they had to travel and how many time zones they crossed to get to the London Games?

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp posted a quarterly loss on Wednesday after taking $2.85 billion of non-cash restructuring and impairment charges that overshadowed growth at its cable networks, the company's only major bright spot.

Allyson Felix won gold in the 200 meters on Wednesday.

Team USA takes on Australia in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament in London. You can watch a live stream online of the game here.

An Australian prostitute has won her case against a motel whose owner refused to rent her a room after a court had ruled the act discriminatory.

Neymar led Brazil to the gold-medal match in men's soccer.

Robert Hughes, the Australian-born art critic and historian, died Monday at age 74.

Alex Morgan's header in the final moments of overtime led the U.S. past Canada in the semifinal in Old Trafford.

Elton John has declared Madonna’s career “over.”In an interview with Australia’s “Sunday Night” television program, John insulted the pop star, referring to her as a “c---“ and a “fairground stripper.”

"That turban has tragically marked us as automatically suspect, perpetually foreign and potentially terrorists."

Crude oil futures declined during the Asian trading hours Monday after surging the most in a month in the previous session on upbeat U.S. jobs data.

Next week will be a reasonably quiet one for both the U.S. and the euro zone, but China will be dumping a whole bunch of macro data for July .

The Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC), which represents retailers, says the fees levied on American supermarkets, stores and gas stations by Visa and MasterCard are up to three times more than in other parts of the world, inflating prices for U.S. consumers.

The newly discovered Cedar virus, with 90 percent of its genes identical to those of Hendra and Nipah viruses, failed to cause any disease when researchers injected it into animals, suggesting an avenue for identifying the deadly genes at the heart of Hendra and Nipah.

The remains of Ned Kelly, the famed bushranger considered a symbol of Irish-Australian resistance against oppression by the British ruling class, would be returned to his descendents 132 years after he was buried among other prisoners in a mass grave, Australian government officials said Thursday.

Despite the fact she has pinkeye, US beach volleyball Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings has consistently been dominating her opponents in London. Still, will her infection be the downfall of the team?

Researchers found a significant number of coral trout with dark lesions on their skin that are nearly identical to human melanoma.

Beached dead whales come a dime a dozen in Australia, but high tide combined with rough seas to vault a baby humpback whale over a chain fence into a swimming pool along the shore near Sydney Wednesday.

Euro zone Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) numbers continued their 11-month straight contraction, with manufacturing in Italy, Spain and Greece continuing their alarming downward trends.

Expect to see more prayer rooms at airport terminals and halal food on your hotel menu as Muslim travelers take to the skies like never before.

A report published in the Telegraph Media Group Tuesday revealed how the iPhone survived "multiple attempts" to scrap it owing to design flaws.