LONDON -- Night after night, crowds of pedestrians huddled on Princes Bridge in the Australian city of Melbourne to watch a dazzling neon spectacle on the roof of the Allen's Sweets factory. First, a giant twist-wrapped sweet would light up, then a yellow spaceship soared above a toffee before exploding into colorful sparkles. The logo of Allen's...
MELBOURNE -- The Australian Grand Prix has a contract to stay put until 2015, but that has not stopped questions about its future in Melbourne. In the weeks preceding the Grand Prix, the first of the Formula One season, Bernie Ecclestone, the promoter of the series, said he would have no problem if Melbourne dropped the race, because it is not a...
MELBOURNE -- The two strongest drivers from the Formula One championship last year kept it up in the first race of the 2012 season, finishing in the top two spots. But this time it was Jenson Button who led the charge from start to finish and won the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, crossing the finish line 2.1 seconds ahead of Sebastian Vettel....
Melbourne er en australsk by med 4 millioner indbyggere (2009). Den er hovedstad i staten Victoria, hvor den er den største by. I Australien som helhed er det den næststørste by, kun overgået af Sydney. 1901-1927 var Melbourne Australiens hovedstad.
Byen var som den første australske by nogensinde vært for OL i 1956.