Virtual reality technology gives visitors at the National Museum of Australia the chance to dive deeper into the works of nature filmmaker Sir David Attenborough, with some urged to take sick bags on their tour.
British pop star George Michael's music career spanned decades and produced hit after hit. Take a look back over his artistic journey with some of his best-loved songs.
Hollywood actress Carrie Fisher is in a stable condition, her mother Debbie Reynolds says, after the Star Wars star suffered a cardiac episode two days earlier on a flight from London to Los Angeles.
The mercury has soared to 40C in Adelaide, delivering the city's hottest Christmas on record since 1945, with Aussies flocking to beaches around the country to beat the summer heat.
Tributes pour in for Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, who spent Christmas Eve in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency on a flight.
Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt dies in Spain from a severe infection aged 68, his manager and family confirm, as music industry greats including Billy Idol and The Who express their grief online.
Actress Carrie Fisher remains in a critical condition in an intensive care unit, her brother says, following media reports she had a "cardiac episode" during a flight from London to Los Angeles.
Typically defined as temporary or demountable housing, nobody is quite sure where the word donga even came from, let alone how it came to apply to such a vast display of structures.
Aussie Jingle Bells, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Santa Wear Your Shorts — they're appalling, writes Ben Pobjie. But Christmas wouldn't be the same without them.
"Unscrupulous" art dealers take particular advantage of Aboriginal artists from remote areas of the Northern Territory over the holidays, tricking them into dodgy deals, an Alice Springs gallery owner says.
United States inmate Brendan Dassey, featured in Netflix series Making a Murderer, has no basis for his claims his confession was not voluntary and should not be released from prison as a judge has ordered, state attorneys argue in a court filing.
Nine-year-old blind girl Lilly Cascun hopes to one day stand on the stage to perform at Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight. This week she learnt that dreams can come true.
Algeria is probably not the first place that springs to mind when somebody mentions snow, but the desert town of Ain Sefra has just seen its first snowstorm in almost 40 years.
It seems in some ways fitting that Hollywood's latest "big idea" movie, to be released in the US just prior to Christmas, is to be Martin Scorsese's dark and provocative Silence.
The Australian Institute of Architects calls for an urgent review of plans to build a fence around Parliament House in Canberra, which includes sealing off the grass lawns on the sides of the building.
A Melbourne council drops plans to apply for heritage protection for the house featured in the movie The Castle, saying it is just an old dilapidated weatherboard with no cultural significance.