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He seemed to have played himself out of contention with a mediocre third round, and he was still seemingly a longshot halfway through Sunday’s final round. But Cameron Smith produced one of the finest back nines in major golf championship history to win the 150th British Open Championship at St. Andrews.  […]

Sisters Nelly and Jessica Korda are the latest stars to confirm their participation in the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande at La Reserva Club. One of the Ladies European Tour’s showpiece events, and part of a series played around the world, the $1 million tournament on the Costa del Sol (18-20 August) features an innovative fourball format in which three LET professionals compete in each team together with an amateur golfer.  […]

Until this year’s Betfred World Championship, only seven players had made a maximum break of 147 at the iconic Crucible snooker venue. Now there are eight, with Australia’s Neil Robertson joining that ulta-elite group. […]

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It has been a long time coming. Four decades after he moved from his Málaga birthplace to Madrid to (eventually) become Spain’s most celebrated international actor, Antonio Banderas is back with his own local theatre and inaugural performance.

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Like many golf stars of his generation, Michael Campbell followed an arduous path to eventual global success. Born in Hawera (Taranaki) on New Zealand’s North Island in February 1969, he left school early, worked a full-time job while fine-tuning his game among the elite of New Zealand amateur golf, made his first inroads into the professional ranks on the Australasian Tour (during an era when Greg Norman was at his peak), then headed to Europe where, competing against a golden era of international champions, he worked his way up to become one of the Tour’s leading players. 

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Sergio García’s victory at Augusta was particularly emotional for both the new champion and his colleagues and golf fans, as it came on the same day that Seve Ballesteros would have celebrated his 60th birthday if he had still been alive.

After a difficult 2015-2016 season, Wests Tigers trounced South Sydney in a fiercely contested National Rugby League opener for 2017.

Over the past 17 years, NASA has been capturing images of the Earth’s surface using Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard its Terra spacecraft. Now having explored 99 per cent of the planet’s surface, NASA has released three million photos of Earth – including this image of Gosse Bluff, located just over 200 kilometres west of Alice Springs. The photo was taken in October 2003. (Supplied: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)