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17, November, 2025. **For The Saturday Telegraph**

Teen’s iPhone film gets top nod

Between homework and her fast-food job, meet the 16-year-old Australian teen who has made Australian film awards history with a scary movie she shot entirely on her smartphone

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1920s. Batsman Bill Woodfull ducks Harold Larwood bouncer during 1920s Australia v England Bodyline Test in Brisbane, featured in 2002 TV documentary 'Bodyline : It's Just Not Cricket'.

Top controversies to hit the Ashes

From a metal bat to a stumping that ignited a global uproar, the Ashes series between Australia and England has produced some of the most memorable clashes in the history of cricket – here’s three

Kids News/UNICEF Australia WCD partnership 2025: Pat Cummins playing backyard cricket at home as a teenager with his brother in the background. This image is single use, not to be stored in News Corp library and only to be used for purpose of Pat talking about World Children's Day in his capacity as a UNICEF Australia Ambassador. Picture: supplied

Pat Cummins feeds his inner child

Aussie cricket legend, UNICEF Australia ambassador and child-at-heart Pat Cummins says play isn’t just fun – it’s fundamental. Here’s how the skipper gets his playtime on and off the pitch

KIDS NEWS. UNICEF ambassador Emma McKeon, visited John Paul College in Brisbane to celebrate World ChildrenÃ¢â¬â¢s Day. Picture: UNICEF

Get loud on World Children’s Day

November 20 is World Children’s Day and UNICEF is inviting all Aussie kids to celebrate with ‘a Minute of Loudness’ about the things that matter most to them – so what matters most to you?

Hard to fathom. Photo: X.

Viral ‘sky stadium’ not as it seems

Images of the world’s first “sky stadium” project in Saudi Arabia have gone viral across the globe but a closer look reveals they aren’t real. So what will the 350m high stadium really look like?

Mark Knight cartoon for Monday 8th February 2021 Herald Sun Newspaper .

When a wombat on the tennis court is normal

In a world turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, we have to expect the unexpected, even when the unexpected comes in the form of Ash Barty’s wooden wombat tennis trophy

Cover image for Code Name Bananas by David Walliams. Picture: Harper Collins

Saving the day with a gorilla named Gertrude

David Walliams introduces Code Name Bananas, in which an orphaned boy named Eric makes friends with a gorilla named Gertrude and they save the day! With activity sheets to download

CORRECTS CREDIT TO ADDISON DOTY - This undated photo provided by Forrest Fenn shows a chest purported to contain gold dust, hundreds of rare gold coins, gold nuggets and other artifacts. For more than a decade, the 82-year-old claims he has packed and repacked the treasure chest, before burying it in the mountains somewhere north of Santa Fe. (AP Photo/Addison Doty)

Student solves poem clues, finds treasure chest

The identity has been revealed of the person who solved clues written into a poem, then found a famous gold-filled treasure chest hidden more than a decade ago in the wilds of Wyoming

Mark Knight's Christmas cartoon. Picture: Mark Knight

Peace and goodwill enduring themes of Christmas

Mark Knight wonders how Santa’s operations might look in the 21st century with social media, job cuts, mass manufacturing and low-cost couriers. At least we can still aim for peace and goodwill

An handout picture taken in November 2020 and released by www.ziarpiatraneamt.ro on December 1, 2020 shows a metal pillar on Batca Doamnei hill in Piatra Neamt, Romania. - A metal monolith which mysteriously appeared on a hilltop in northern Romania has sparked curiosity -- and mockery -- online, coming just days after a similar object was found in the Utah desert. (Photo by Handout / www.ziarpiatraneamt.ro / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Shiny metal thing disappears, another appears

Another mysterious triangular metal pillar has been found next to an ancient fortress in the city of Piatra Neamt, Romania, days after one vanished without a trace in the desert in Utah, US

Pictured in Cronulla is a socially distanced Santa with local girl Edie Docherty (7). Children have had their minds eased knowing that Santa will go about his Christmas 2020 duties in a socially distanced fashion. Picture: Richard Dobson

Santa gets special permission to travel at Christmas

The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt travel around the world but the Prime Minister has confirmed that no matter what happens to Australia’s borders Santa will be able to do his job

TOPSHOT - This video grab image obtained November 24, 2020 courtesy of the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau shows a mysterious metal monolith that was discovered in Utah after public safety officers spotted the object while conducting a routine wildlife mission. - On November 18, 2020, the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau was working with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to conduct a count of big horn sheep in a portion of southeastern Utah. While on this mission, they spotted an unusual object and landed nearby to investigate further.The crew members found a metal monolith installed in the ground in a remote area of red rock.The crew said there was no obvious indication of who might have put the monolith there. (Photo by Handout / Utah Department of Public Safety / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Mystery shiny metal thing appears in desert

Deep in the remote, Mars-like landscape of Utah’s red-rock desert in the US, a helicopter crew counting sheep stumbled on a mystery: A giant, gleaming metal thing embedded in rock

mark Knight cartoon on Victorians being able to stop wearing masks

Unmasked! Aussies’ great effort in the pandemic

With his relaxation on wearing masks outdoors it seems Premier Dan has saved Victorians yet again, this time not from coronavirus but from weird facial tanning outcomes

Bundaberg features on a new Monopoly board game which also comes in puzzle form.

Australian towns star in Monopoly special edition

Instead of famous streets in far-off London, a new Monopoly board features 22 Australian towns and regions to raise funds for communities impacted by bushfires, floods and COVID-19

The Bermuda Triangle is said to have claimed more than 1000 lives over the past 100 years.

Solving the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

Ships and planes have disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. But is there really anything strange going on? Kids News looks at the history of this fascinating phenomenon

Child actors (L-R) Rupert Grint, David Radcliffe & actress Emma Watson in 2001 film

Broomsticks for Muggles glide through the streets

Two men have been seen whizzing on broomsticks along the famously traffic-choked streets of Brazilian megacity Sao Paulo. The inventors’ goal is to create a new version of Quidditch

Hearing test showing ear of young woman with sound waves simulation technology - isolated on white banner

New technology beams sound into your head

Audio technology to be unveiled this week beams music, games or movie soundtracks directly into your head without headphones or wires, which the developers are calling “sound beaming”

Nick on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Picture: BridgeClimb

At work with a Sydney Harbour Bridge climber

Could Nick Hayes have the best job in the world? Or perhaps you think it would be the worst job. Find out what happens on a typical day for a climb leader on the Sydney Harbour Bridge

The peregrine falcon chicks on November 12

Time to wave goodbye to the peregrine chicks

As Melburnians stretch their wings after the lockdown, the city’s famous peregrine falcon chicks are also stretching theirs, hopping and flying backwards and forwards along their home ledge

ESCAPE: Northern Territory, Sarah Nicholson - Cycling - Uluru (Ayers Rock). Picture: Sarena Hyland/Tourism NT

Tell us about your favourite family holiday

Thanks to the kids who shared their family holiday memories with us as part of the Australia Go Get It campaign. Read our top picks

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