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Jennifer Hunt, 15, and her golden retriever Bella before they both embark on a record-breaking flight around Australia from Darwin, Friday, September 9, 2025. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Teen pilot and puppy take off

While most 15-year-olds are in school, Australia’s youngest female pilot and her puppy are set to make history attempting to become the youngest team to fly around our country’s vast coastline

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB (L to R) SHAY RUDOLPH as STACEY MCGILL and MOMONA TAMADA as CLAUDIA KISHI in episode 207 of THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB Cr. KAILEY SCHWERMAN/NETFLIX © 2021

Meet Gen Alpha money-makers

Gen Alpha is the new breed of Australian entrepreneur, already nipping at the heels of Gen Z and Millennials – so how are kids and teens smashing the avocado crowd and making real money?

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A polite Sri Lankan elephant appeared to wave thanks to a safari group that gave way to the herd when their vehicle came across the elephants crossing the road. Picture: screengrab/Newsflare via Reuters Connect

Elephant appears to wave thanks

Safari-goers in Sri Lanka have captured the heartwarming moment an elephant seems to wave ‘thank you’ as its herd crosses their path – do you think that’s what happened? Take our poll

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KIDS NEWS 2025: Indigenous Literacy Fund (ILF) celebrates Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 3 September. Students from Katherine High School in the Northern Territory have written a bilingual book with Gregg Dreise called Grinch det K’Taun Krok! (Grinch the K-Town Croc!), published by the ILF. Picture: ILF/supplied

ILD: Celebrating strength in stories

Young Indigenous authors have travelled from their remote community to Sydney Opera House this Indigenous Literacy Day, to share their unique bilingual tale about a quacking crocodile

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. Swift posted five photos to her Instagram for the announcement, with the caption saying:

Tay Tay confirms start of new ‘era’

The hit singer and star footballer’s announcement on social media broke the internet on Wednesday – can you guess just how many fans around the world liked their happy news within an hour?

Rescue gorilla Bobo makes a tiny new pal in a bush baby he found in his enclosure

Big Bobo meets mini-me

A massive western lowland gorilla showed extreme care, playing with and looking after another primate who fitted neatly in the palm of his hand

Kids News. Melbourne Zoo's recycling program. Zoo keeper Tamsin Green feeding the elephants and collecting their massive droppings, which will be added to the HotRot composter onsite at the zoo. Picture: David Caird

New Pooseum teaches us about poop

A new museum dedicated to animal dung has opened in Tasmania. The Pooseum is the idea of Karin Koch, who says we can learn a lot from the science of animal droppings

Australia Post stamp series Reef Safari.

Reef survival gets stamp of approval

A new Great Barrier Reef stamp series from Australia Post aims to raise awareness of the fight to save our natural wonder while also celebrating Stamp Collecting Month

Can you pass the Quiz Word test?

Take our Quiz Word test and see if you can beat the clock — or take on all your classmates!

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Join the treasure hunt to win!

It’s holiday time and we’re here to help you have fun and maybe even win some great prizes. Can you find your way through the Kids News questions to reach the treasure?

An ear is seen in Washington,DC on May 16, 2018. A simple looped soundbite with just two syllables has ignited an internet meltdown, dividing social media users into staunchly opposed camps: do you hear

Which do you hear — Yanny or Laurel?

It’s not as simple as hearing the right or wrong name on this social-media listening test that went viral. Which do you hear?

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?

Hundreds of rubix cubers flock to Ivanhoe Grammar to compete in the Cube for Cambodia competition.
Feliks (yes, FELIKS) Zemdegs broke the World Record with 4.22 seconds.
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Fastest Rubik’s cube solve ever

Melbourne student Feliks Zemdegs is the fastest human ever to solve a Rubik’s cube. He took 4.22 seconds. How fast are you?

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?

PREPS will use a humanoid robot to improve their speaking and listening skills. The 30cm- tall NAO robot is being programmed by grade 5 students at Glendal Primary School to interact with prep children. Prep students, Alivia and Eshan dance along with NAO's the robot. Picture: Tony Gough

Robot teachers take over class

In classrooms all around the world, a new type of teacher is helping students learn. And it’s not a human. It’s a robot. Would you like a robot teacher?

Thankfully, Pitts had the foresight to capture the sequence on film.

Golfer scores birdie of a different kind

Great golfers score birdies and eagles but one high school student scored a wild goose chase instead and the images went viral on social media

Eye surgeries, Dr Buddy.

Real reason why we have eyebrows

Researchers have discovered the reason why we have eyebrows — to help early humans show emotion and communicate before we could speak

Python swallows slipper being operated on at HerpVet

Hungry snake swallows slipper

A hungry coast carpet python has stunned vets after swallowing a man’s slipper and ending up in surgery. See the amazing X-rays

Easter Egg Hunt. Lees sisters Jessica (3) and Caitlin (4) with their hord of chocolate easter eggs. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Inside an Easter egg factory

We take a look inside a busy Cadbury’s chocolate factory making millions of eggs in time for Easter

This undated handout photo supplied on March 18, 2018 by Perth's Cockburn Masters Swimming Club shows swimmers posing with a giant inflatable duck they named Daphne in Perth. The Australian swimming club is appealing for ocean watchers to find their giant yellow inflatable duck Daphne, after the mascot was blown into the Indian Ocean with reported sightings hundreds of kilometres from where it was launched. The duck, owned by Cockburn Masters Swimming Club, was last seen at Perth's Coogee Beach in the early hours of March 11 as organisers prepared for a carnival. / AFP PHOTO / PERTH'S COCKBURN MASTERS SWIMMING CLUB / Nick WYATT / - NO Internet / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Daphne the giant duck rescued at sea

Daphne the giant, inflatable duck is rescued at sea after floating away during a Perth swimming carnival

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