Wales and the United States set the Australian round of the IRB Sevens series alight in the opening round with shock wins over Fiji and England here Friday. Tournament favourites New Zealand and Samoa safely negotiated their way through their first matches but elsewhere the form book was thrown away. A stirring second-half performance by Wales, who languish a lowly ...

Fijians cleaning up after a devastating cyclone discovered the body of a second victim on Friday, as military forces from three nations worked to find out the extent of damage to outlying islands and deliver aid. Cyclone Tomas battered the north and east of the multi-island ...

Fijian naval vessels and Australian and New Zealand aircraft headed to isolated islands Thursday to assess the devastation from this week's cyclone. Cyclone Tomas, which packed average winds of 175 kilometres (109 miles) an hour, caused widespread devastation in Fiji's north and east on Monday and Tuesday, although only one death has so far been confirmed. Some of ...