This weekend, Mother Teresa will be anointed a saint. How did the woman born Agnes Bojaxhiu reach such holy heights in near-record time?

Over lunch at his home, John Olsen shares a lifetime of insights into landscape, poetry and painting.

Two schoolgirls in Bali rallied their classmates to battle the blight of plastic refuse. Now the island will soon be free of plastic bags, and the rest of Indonesia is following suit.

Timber buildings are reaching towards the skies, thanks to breakthroughs in super-strong wood.

Australian artist Lynette Wallworth gleefully uses emerging technologies to bring audiences into her artworks, which deal with topics including global warming and refugees in unexpected ways.

Why translating the Melbourne icon's artwork onto cloth made designer Lisa Gorman nervous.

Take a tour of the tiny, as rising prices and shrinking space force a rethink of the great Australian home-owning dream.

Specially adapted drones are offering new hope to organ transplant recipients.

Ricky Gervais is reviving his most cringe-inducing character, David Brent, to expose the ugliness of modern-day bullying and the foibles of older men.

A suburban dad’s poor decisions lead him to jail. How does his incredulous wife – and mother to his two children – adjust to the stiff sentence?

Considering racing up the 1500-plus steps of Sydney Tower, or Eureka Tower? Canberra's Mark Bourne has some advice.

The rants and the outbursts have exacted a price, but the Hollywood bad boy says he's ready to get on with life.

Terrorism, an influx of refugees and a leader more sympathetic to Islam are combining to create new tensions in Turkey – and an ancient neighbourhood in Istanbul.

Described as the “Don Bradman of sea-level science”, John Church’s sacking from the CSIRO left many observers gobsmacked. Can we – Australia and the rest of the planet – really afford to let him go?

Breakfast with birthers, an afternoon flag-burning, and lots of hateful Hillary masks. Welcome to the circus.