LONDON (Reuters) - British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information.

An inquiry's heard flood engineers could have omitted documents contradicting the Wivenhoe Dam operation.

Sydney FC survive a late Perth Glory fightback to win a tight affair at the Sydney Football Stadium.

RANGOON: Thousands of cheering supporters have swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.

The weather bureau has issued severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of New South Wales and Queensland.

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syria's protest centre of Homs came under renewed fire and a general was gunned down in Damascus on Saturday as the bloodshed showed no signs of abating, even spilling over into Lebanon.

Canberra have scored a 27-18 win over a star-depleted Melbourne in a NRL trial at Albury on the NSW-Victorian border.

AUCKLAND (AFP) - New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by seven wickets in their opening Twenty20 international at Eden Park on Saturday.

Captain Marcus North's 93 has helped Western Australia reach 9-284 in their one-day clash with Queensland at the Gabba.

MALE (AFP) - A top US diplomat has arrived in the Maldives seeking to help resolve a deepening political crisis sparked by the ousting of the Indian Ocean nation's first democratically elected president.