Lifeguards declared Sydney's famed Bondi beach and several other strands closed Thursday, as more mysterious black "tar ball" globules washed up along the city's shores. Surfers and swimmers on a ...

While her colleagues have been paddleboarding in Sydney and scuba diving in Perth, Eugenie Bouchard has kept her feet firmly on the sand by joining the Bondi Beach lifeguards for a hard day's work.

Fraser rejects that idea, however, and neither professional lifeguards nor Australia ... use them on the long Australia Day weekend. On Bondi Beach, radio presenter Wipfli and his father-in ...