Adelaide, Australia - Allan Davis of Australia lived up to his promise as he won Friday's stage and retained the ochre jersey for the overall leader at the Tour Down Under.

"If the chance arrives, I'll definitely have a crack, but the plan is to keep it simple," the 26-year-old had said on the starting line of the fourth stage over 143 kilometres from Burnside Village to Angaston.

And the chance did arrive: The Quick Step rider won, flashing over the line ahead of Thursday's stage winner, Rabobank's Graeme Brown.

Melbourne  - The Australian Open was tarnished Friday by a third straight year of minor fan violence, with a woman injured and around 30 people ejected from the grounds, police reported.

Longstanding Balkan tensions which have scarred previous editions boiled over on a hot day, with rival Serbian and Bosnian fans hurling garden chairs at each other after a match won by Serbian champion Novak Djokovic over Bosnian-American Amer Delic 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).

Sydney  - Pacific Forum countries will meet next month to decide whether to suspend Fiji's military rulers from their 16-member regional forum, the Papua New Guinea government announced in Port Moresby on Friday.

The meeting, which was initially scheduled for Tuesday, will be held February 10, Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare said in a statement.

Fiji's leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who ousted the elected government in a bloodless coup two years ago, told Somare he couldn't attend next week because he was required in Suva to oversee flood-relief efforts.

Melbourne  - Balkan passions played out on court while fans remained restrained as Serb Novak Djokovic posted a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) win Friday over Bosnian-American Amer Delic to advance at the Australian Open.

While police reported that a handful of unidentified troublemakers were turfed out the gates of Melbourne Park for scuffles and chair throwing in the beer garden park, the atmosphere for the heated third-round match could only be classified as a low simmer.

Sydney  - A 20-year-old Malay

Sydney  - Only five of the 50 whales that beached on an Australian island are likely to survive, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service said Friday.

The whales came ashore on Perkins Island, near Smithton, on Thursday and have defied frantic efforts to coax them back out into the Tasman Sea.

Parks spokeswoman Liz Wren said sandbars around Perkins Island were hampering the rescue efforts.

More than 250 whales have died in three separate strandings in Tasmania's north-west in the past two months.