A Cirque du Soleil technician who was killed while setting up for a show in the United States was the son of co-founder Gilles Ste-Croix, the circus says.
An Australian artist's chance encounter with a man outside a 7-Eleven store in the United States leads to him winning this year's Digital Portrait Award.
US pop star Taylor Swift, boy band One Direction and British singer Adele are among the highest paid musicians in the world in 2016 according to Forbes magazine.
An Aboriginal Mural on the side of Sydney's Wayside Chapel at Bondi, which is described as a key symbol of reconciliation, is painted over and destroyed by the Chapel's management.
The "night mayor" of Amsterdam criticises Sydney's lockout laws, saying alcohol-related violence is a societal issue that will not be fixed by "blaming" venue operators.
Gone are the days when you could fire your shotgun at whim and be fat if you wanted to be, writes Ben Pobjie. It's time for Australians to fight back against the nanny state.
People are often asked to remember where they were when Elvis died in 1977. In Burnie, thousands remember where they were standing at West Park when Danny Clark won the 1977 Burnie Wheel.
The painter Donald Friend was lauded by his admirers as a "legendary figure". But he could just as easily be described as Australia's most celebrated paedophile.
Alice Springs-born director Warwick Thornton, famous for his work on Australian film Sampson and Delilah, is back in Central Australia with acting greats Sam Neill and Bryan Brown to tell the nation a tale of frontier-era violence.
Piles of punk music memorabilia goes up in flames on a river barge in London in a protest against the way the once rebellious genre has been subsumed into mainstream culture.
Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful mom residing over The Brady Bunch, has died.
A group of performers with disabilities working alongside Opera Queensland are getting ready to take the stage for a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Opera singer Deborah Cheetham was forcibly removed from her birth mother at three weeks old, and re-homed with a white Baptist family in Sydney. Only as an adult did she discover her personal history as part of the Stolen Generation.
In ABC News Breakfast's "Now Showing" movie segment, we look at the Dreamworks animated feature "Trolls", and the latest installment in the "Underworld" franchise.
Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina is drawing on her personal experience of imprisonment for a performance of the Belarus Free Theatre's "Burning Doors" which premiere's tonight at the Melbourne Arts Centre.
An Albanian artist on Monday unveiled a portrait of Mother Teresa using staples, in a call for European countries to stop raising fences to shut their borders to refugees.
When Toowoomba bus driver David Guscott heads home, he heads straight to the back shed. He's a garage luthier and his instrument of choice is the electric violin.
