Brisbane News

Seventh-seeded Richard Gasquet of France rallied to beat countryman Marc Gicquel 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 Sunday in the first round of the Brisbane International tennis tournament. The joint ATP-WTA tournament is being played for the first time at the new Queensland...

Australian No.1 Sam Stosur has scored a confidence-boosting win over Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama at the Brisbane International. The unseeded Stosur entertained a packed centre court crowd, winning 6-2 6-3 after breaking early. It was her first win against Sugiyama...

Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic will meet Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the first round of the Brisbane International. The reigning French Open champion Ivanovic, who has been training in Australia for the past three weeks, was drawn Saturday to...

A 29-year-old woman is helping police with their inquiries, police said in a statement. A woman driving a red 1997 Mitsubishi Magna sedan took the boy from a house at Carrara on the Gold Coast around midday, police said earlier....

Wotton was today handed a seven-year sentence, reduced to six years for time already served, for inciting a riot on Palm Island off north Queensland in 2004 following the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee. The sentence was handed down...

A jury has retired to consider the fate of a Queensland high school teacher accused of pursuing an illegal sexual relationship with her female student. Amanda Louise Thompson, 28, has pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane District Court to maintaining...

A tense World Cup rugby league semifinal week in Brisbane looms after Kiwis captain Benji Marshall labelled England disrespectful and coach Stephen Kearney took aim at referee Tony Archer. The Kiwis were far from happy despite storming back from 8-24...

Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgaria's 19-year-old tennis player, beat the American Vania King 6:3, 7:5 in a match at the second qualifying round of a women's tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, on January 3 2009. The prize fund was US$220 000, Dnevnik...