Melbourne (Australia)

World's 50 Best Restaurants: El Celler de Can Roca beats out Noma for planet's top restaurant

2013-04-29 13:03:00

The annual list of the "World's 50 Best Restaurants" has come out, and three-year champ Noma, in Copenhagen, has been knocked from its No. 1 perch. El Celler de Can Roca, a Spanish restaurant presided over by the Roca brothers, has bumped Ren� Redzepi's...

SXSW 2013: Nick Cave on life spent in an 'imaginative world'

2013-03-12 11:54:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- Outspoken rock 'n' roll balladeer Nick Cave traced his beginnings from “rural Australia” to the more comforting confines of his own imagination in a sprawling, hour-long chat at the South by Southwest music conference here....

Australia's Back to Back pushes theatrical boundaries

2013-01-20 06:00:00

At first blush, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" sounds like a long-lost Monty Python skit about some bizarre time-tripping action-figure wrestling bout. Indeed, as the title hints, a cosmic smackdown between the pachyderm Hindu god and the German F�hrer...

Rafael Nadal pulls out of Australian Open

2012-12-28 09:51:00

Rafael Nadal's comeback has been put on hold for a few more weeks -- or perhaps, a couple of months -- following his withdrawal from the Australian Open. But it is not the troublesome left knee preventing him from playing in Melbourne. The Spanish...

Media matriarch and philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch dies at 103

2012-12-05 11:36:00

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, has died at her home outside Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 103. The matriarch of the world's most prominent media family was well-known in Australia for her philanthropy, and...

PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller

2012-04-25 00:00:00

Doris Betts Southern author of short stories, novels Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...

Chris Lilley talks about busting taboos on HBO's 'Angry Boys'

2011-12-30 16:36:18

Greg Norman hopes pairing helps Tiger Woods, ex-caddie move on

2011-11-16 16:33:26

Bill Hunter dies at 71; prolific Australian actor

2011-05-28 00:00:00

Bill Hunter, the archetypal working-class Australian of a multitude of movies including the quirky trio "Muriel's Wedding," "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Strictly Ballroom" died of cancer May 21 in a Melbourne hospice, his...

PASSINGS: John Walker

2011-05-10 00:00:00

John Walker, 67, a guitarist and singer who was one of the founding members of the Walker Brothers, a 1960s rock band whose biggest hit was "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)," died of liver cancer Saturday in Los Angeles, according to his personal...

PASSINGS: Lionel Rose, Gunter Sachs, Thomas G. Nelson

2011-05-09 00:00:00

Lionel Rose 1st Aborigine to a win world boxing title Lionel Rose, 62, the first Australian Aborigine to win a world boxing title, died Sunday near Melbourne after being ill for several months, his family said. He had a stroke in 2007 that left him...

Cut Copy reveals details of forthcoming album, gives a shout-out to Ariel Pink

2010-09-30 21:35:31

Stunt expert Leigh-Anne Vizer is held by a 4.5 metre King Kong hand 300 metres above the city of Melbourne during a 'King Kong' production photo call at Eureka Skydeck in Melbourne, Australia.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

An aerobatics team perform during the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne on March 1, 2013. 180,000 patrons are expected through the gates over the duration of the event staged at the Avalon Airfield some 80kms south-west of Melbourne.

2013-03-01 00:00:00

Andy Murray of Great Britain signs autographs after winning his fourth round match against Gilles Simon of France during day eight of the 2013 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 21, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

2013-01-21 17:51:00