Who will leave lights on for Santa?
Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight has come up with a festive plan for keeping the lights on over Christmas as the electricity grid struggles with supply – but can Santa keep up with demand?
Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight has come up with a festive plan for keeping the lights on over Christmas as the electricity grid struggles with supply – but can Santa keep up with demand?
A giant inflatable Bluey was the star of the show at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – but because of a last minute emergency, the loveable blue heeler almost didn’t make it
An Australian couple have recounted the extraordinary moment they came across a 10cm green tree frog as it slowly consumed a keelback snake thought to be about 25 cm long
A stunned Aussie has stumbled across a bottle with a rolled up letter inside it that was thrown into the sea from Brazil 16 years ago. But who wrote the letter and what did it say?
They may be a world record apart in height, but when the world’s tallest woman and the world’s shortest woman recently met for tea they were surprised to find they had a lot in common
Three-and-a-half-month-old twin polar bear cubs have made their public debut at a zoo in the Netherlands, but without the public because of coronavirus restrictions
An American daredevil has successfully walked a tightrope thousands of metres in the air above the crater of an active volcano
The factory that makes Violet Crumble is working 24 hours a day to keep up with incredible demand for the historic, purple-wrapped chocolate honeycomb bar
Five Australian photographers have blitzed the international Underwater Photographer of the Year competition with their incredible pictures of life under the sea
Scientists in Belgium are experimenting with larva fat to replace butter in waffles, cakes and cookies, saying using grease from insects is more sustainable than dairy produce
A large male and two smaller female baboons broke free from a truck at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, sparking a baboon hunt through the inner western suburbs
A 62-year-old man has set an astonishing Guinness World Record, planking for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds, suggesting that “Anybody can do what I do”
Australians are becoming world leaders at cooking and eating pancakes on Pancake Tuesday, a fun food day that has its origins as a religious festival
Up to four tourists could launch into a super-high space orbit in an autonomous SpaceX capsule by the end of next year, with ticket prices expected to be in the millions of dollars
Crocodile tears are real – though humans are the only animals that cry emotional tears – and babies don’t cry tears at all. Kids News explains tears and crying
Though the crowd cheered for a golden retriever, a fluffy, puffed-up poodle has been named top dog for 2020 at the world-famous Westminster Dog Show
There are several stories about who Valentine was, but the most popular one is that he was a doctor and priest from Rome in the third century who lived and died in the pursuit of love
Travel back in time thousands of years through this NASA animation to look at Earth without oceans, when vast lands allowed ancient people to roam the world
When the calendar clicked over to 02/02/2020 on Sunday, few people realised it was a universal palindrome, a momentous date that hasn’t happened since 11/11/1111
One of these incredible photos will be the winning entry in the 2019 Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. Which would you vote for?
