The Latest Breaking News from Australia

Australia international Sammy Silvera has scored for Middlesbrough as they moved second in England's Championship with the Premier League in their sights.

In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia’s alpine region, the landscape is slowly changing. Patches of native vegetation cropped bald by horses are regrowing. Some long-eroded creek banks look less compacted along the edges. Visitors come across fewer horses standing on the roads, a real traffic hazard.

Queensland leggie Mitchell Swepson wants more balance in pitches around the country after Australia again overlooked a front-line tweaker for the Ashes finale.

Michael Clarke fears Australian wickets are doing little to promote future generations of spinners, predicting Shane Warne would have been furious about it.

Travis Head is in sight of his third century of the Ashes, going to stumps on 91no and with Australia 2-166 in reply to England's first-innings 384.

Aerial skier Reilly Flanagan and cross-country skier Hannah Price travel far and wide as they seek to represent Australia at the Winter Games in Milano-Cortina

Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard

'I like the idea of being able to finish on my own terms and being able to choose where my finish line is' says Spratt after 15 years as a pro

Playing without a spinner is one thing, but Beau Webster and Cameron Green are only good enough to be the fifth bowler

Perhaps it was not a coincidence that England’s best day of the series came on a rain-reduced afternoon where they were denied the time to stuff it up – but for one afternoon, one of cricket’s greatest pleasures occurred

Root looked serene throughout his knock of 72 not out while Brook was involved in a livelier contest on his way to 78no from 92 balls