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Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer begin their quest for five Australian Open titles while Serena Williams is chasing her 19th Grand Slam crown in the year's first major starting Monday.
      
World number one Djokovic looms as the player to beat in the men's draw having won four of the last seven Australian editions, and he holds an affinity with the hardcourts in Melbourne.

Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska took a significant step towards achieving her dream of a maiden Grand Slam title when she broke the stranglehold Serena Williams held over her at the Hopman Cup.
      

Asia's top sports leaders on Jan. 9 refused to back Prince Ali bin Al Hussein's election challenge to FIFA president Sepp Blatter and insisted it was doomed to failure.
      
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) chief Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa told AFP there would be no about-turn on the regional body's previous commitment to back Blatter.
      

BELGRADE - Serbian tennis player Janko Tipsarevic, who has not been playing tennis for more than a year due to a foot injury, said Friday that he would definitely get back to court in February.

Eight children ranging from babies to teenagers were found dead at a home in the Australian city of Cairns Dec. 19, police said, reportedly in a gruesome mass stabbing that comes just days after a deadly siege in Sydney.
      

For three successive generations, the family of the legendary Cretan singer-songwriter Nikos Xylouris and his brother, the equally famous Antonis Xylouris, known as Psarantonis, have kept the Aegean island’s music tradition alive, adapting and spreading it to thousands of people around the world.

Reports that Greece’s national tourism agency (GNTO) had used footage of an Australian landmark in its latest official campaign video have prompted a response from the country’s media.

MELBOURNE - Lonely Planet, the world's the largest travel guide book publisher, has named Serbia one of Top 10 most attractive countries to visit in 2015, saying that "this astonishingly inexpensive country is one of Europe's best-kept secrets."

A 19-year-old Australian tourist who was injured during a shootout between police and fugitive terrorist Nikos Maziotis in central Athens in July is suing the Greek state for failing to provide him with proper medical treatment.

A march to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change drew thousands to the streets of New York City Sunday, with similar protests taking place around the world.

More than 300,000 people marched through the streets of NY in what organizers called the largest climate-change demonstration in history.