SYDNEY, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 27,500 homes in the east coast Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) were without power because of damage from heavy rain, strong winds and snowfall, the ...

Later in the evening, the United States quartet of Jack Alexy, Patrick Sammon, Kate Douglass and Torri Huske stormed to victory in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay, setting a new world record of ...