Oceania
Australia has signed a new security deal with Oceania island country Vanuatu as part of an ongoing competition with China for influence in the Pacific.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is moving into the business of providing internet service to airline passengers. Hawaiian Airlines said Monday that it will offer free wireless internet service from SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network starting next year.
Cook Islands became the second nation in Oceania World Cup qualifying to have a match postponed following a positive COVID-19 test.
The match between Tahiti and Vanuatu on the opening day of delayed Oceania World Cup qualifying on Thursday was postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests conducted at Vanuatu’s team hotel in Doha, Qatar.
The fourth-place team from North and Central American and the Caribbean will play the Oceania champion in a one-game playoff for a World Cup berth.
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA changed the World Cup qualifying format for the intercontinental playoffs on Friday to be single-leg games at a neutral venue.
Asian shares are slipping in cautious trading Wednesday, shrugging off a rally on Wall Street led by technology companies and banks that erased most of the losses from the previous day’s sell-off.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A sports association official says seven female taekwondo athletes who fled Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have resettled in Melbourne.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Center Henry Taefu scored a try among 20 points as Samoa beat Tonga 42-13 on Saturday in the first match of a two-leg Rugby World Cup qualifying series.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An official due to travel to Tokyo with the Fiji Olympic team has been withdrawn after testing positive for COVID-19.
HONOLULU (AP) — A nonprofit organization that serves and advocates for the Micronesian and Pacific islander communities in Hawaii plans to open a youth center in Honolulu this month.
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AP) — Defending men’s Olympic champion Fiji and the New Zealand women’s side were both undefeated in six matches at the Oceania Sevens tournament, the last major tune-up for the leading teams heading into the Tokyo Olympics beginning next month.
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AP) — The defending rugby sevens Olympic gold medalists had winning starts Friday at the Oceania tournament.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Ex-Wallabies center Samu Kerevi has returned from Japan to have a shot at making Australia’s rugby sevens team for the Tokyo Olympics.
Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is threatening to skip Florida ports because of the governor’s order banning businesses from requiring that customers be vaccinated against COVID-19.
SYDNEY (AP) — The 2023 Women’s World Cup will be spread across nine cities in Australia and New Zealand.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A displaced cruise ship docked at the nation’s rural northeastern tip is big enough to hold the host community’s entire population.
ROWING
Boat Race in London on March 29 canceled.
Americas Olympic qualification regatta in Rio de Janeiro from April 2-5 canceled.
Boat Race in London on March 29 canceled.
Americas Olympic qualification regatta in Rio de Janeiro from April 2-5 canceled.
ATHLETICS
World indoor championships in Nanjing from March 13-15 postponed to March 2021.
AUTO RACING
World indoor championships in Nanjing from March 13-15 postponed to March 2021.
AUTO RACING
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Olympic qualifying events in two sports were moved from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday because of an outbreak of a deadly viral illness.
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA banned an ally of disgraced former vice president David Chung for financial wrongdoing linked to Papua New Guinea hosting the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in 2016.