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KIDS NEWS 2024: Mark Knight's 2024 Christmas card suggests Santa might have to pedal hard to keep the Christmas tree lights on as an energy supply crisis looms in Australia. Picture: Mark Knight

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?

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 28: The Bluey balloon floats the Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 28, 2024 in New York City. This is the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which was first held in 1924 and only paused from 1942 to 1944 during World War II.   Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by KENA BETANCUR / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Bursting Bluey rescued just in time

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

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A green tree frog was captured devouring a keelback snake on Tuesday in Cedar Vale, a suburb of Logan. Picture: Melissa MacPherson

Famished frog feasts on snake

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

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The bottle was thrown into the Atlantic in 2008.

Message in a bottle washes ashore

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?

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World’s tallest and shortest women Rumeysa Gelgi and Jyoti Amge meet

World’s tallest and shortest meet

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

Animals
Dior (big dog) and Oscar are very pampered. Their Mum owns Pooches on Pakington which sells designer pet accesories. New research has shown how much people are spending on their pets. Picture: Peter Ristevski

Luxury life for pampered pets

Expensive birthday parties, organic food, special holidays and much, much more: that’s the life of Australia’s pampered dogs. Do you know a dog who’s treated like a celebrity?

Humanities
Child falling back into a swimming pool

Here’s how to be happy

A new world study finds kids are happiest when they’re spending time with their family, friends and pets. Is that what makes you happy too?

Health
Don Gorske bites into the 18,000th Big Mac he has eaten at the Fond du lac High School in Fond du Lac, Wisconcin 06/11/2001. Gorske began his culinary obsession 17/05/1972 and is also fed by his obsessive compulsive disorder.

Don eats his 30,000th Big Mac

UPDATE: Don Gorske has eaten two Big Macs every day for 46 years. Now the record holder has just eaten his 30,000th burger. And he won’t stop there.