Australian navy pilots struck by lasers in South China Sea: report

Beijing: A witness says Australian navy helicopter pilots were hit by lasers while exercising in the South China Sea, forcing them to land as a precaution. Scholar Euan Graham, who was on board the Royal Australian Navy flagship HMAS Canberra on a voyage from Vietnam to Singapore, said in an account of the incident that the…

Dragons player Jack de Belin hit with additional rape charges

Click:cnc turning St George Illawarra Dragons player Jack de Belin has been hit with fresh charges over his alleged joint rape of a woman at a Wollongong unit block last December. De Belin will face Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday on not one but three rape charges after police quietly laid two additional counts of…

Slow and steady: Maxwell expects respect for Afghani spin king

Glenn Maxwell is plotting a game of survival against Afghan superstar Rashid Khan with Australia's most aggressive batsman ready to take it slow against the legspinner. Saturday's World Cup clash with the South Asian minnows would usually be considered an ideal opening fixture, if not for Australia's struggles against their slow bowlers. Khan has been…

PNG Prime Minister O'Neill tenders formal resignation

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has formally tendered his resignation to the Pacific country's Governor-General rather than face a parliamentary no-confidence motion. "At 9.35am this morning I delivered to his excellency … the Governor-General, my letter of resignation," he said in parliament at Port Moresby on Wednesday. O'Neill had promised to resign on…

Belgrade to Blues: Cotric's Serbian roots drive Origin dream

Click:composite insulator vs polymer insulator The last time Nick Cotric visited his family in Serbia, he was a boy who could only dream of one day playing for NSW. When he returns to Serbia – where his mother was born before migrating to Australia –  at the end of this season, he will have fulfilled…

Police charge 55 people in Sydney eastern suburbs drugs busts

An operation targeting the supply and distribution of cocaine and other illicit drugs in Sydney's eastern suburbs has led to 55 people being charged with drug supply and possession. Over the course of six nights this month, police from Strike Force Northrop allegedly seized more than 290 grams of cocaine, 13 grams of MDMA, 110…