Australia thrash South Africa by 276 runs in the final one-day international in Mackay to avoid a first whitewash in an ODI series on home soil.

South Africa is set to launch its first new underground gold mine in more than a decade, marking a resurgence in a once-dominant industry.

For many years the unique quality of the Six Nations Championship has been its propensity to throw up at least one result that confounded the divinations of the best rugby oracles each year. It might not have exhibited the best rugby on the planet,