Bee blasts NAPLAN woes away
Teachers across Australia have flocked to register more than 51,000 students for the annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee as NAPLAN results highlight ongoing foundation literacy challenges
Teachers across Australia have flocked to register more than 51,000 students for the annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee as NAPLAN results highlight ongoing foundation literacy challenges
Australia has a vast treasure-trove of exceptional sporting exports, but our best athlete of the past 25 years has been named – do you agree with the top pick and who else made the list? Take our poll
Is this the world’s most stubborn neighbour? A homeowner in China refused to budge for developers and defied demolition – how did his eccentric resistance succeed?
Table manners were missing in action as a flock of sheep crashed a casual coffee catch up in China – should someone have stopped this woolly wag from chugging the caffeine? TAKE OUR POLL
First inspired by a fictional chess player, rising Australian whiz kid Reyaansh Chakrabarty has since beaten Grandmasters for real – here’s his plan for becoming Australia’s first world champ
The Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee school round included the first braille-assisted Bee in vision-impaired Year 3 student Declan Lee among 57,543 registered students – now 2300 head into round two
Australia’s junior racing scene is exploding as more girls and boys try kart racing and motorsports programs to feed their need for speed – meet two junior kart kings in pole position for the future
A ‘massive’ and ‘majestic’ billy goat has become a local legend after motorists spotted it watching traffic in the middle of a busy freeway, with some locals questioning if the animal is even real
As the final week of Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee school round gets underway, the hive is really humming with over 50,000 Australian students already registered to spell their way to success
The dreams of Australia’s little girls have changed forever in Mark Knight’s cartoon, with Barbie dolls and pretty pinks replaced by the mighty Matildas rocking the green and gold
Research shows cuddling up to your pet dog or patting one on the street for just a short amount of time can release a love hormone in your body that makes you feel joy
Young millionaire Ash Magic says he was bullied for doing magic tricks at school but now has almost 13 million followers on his social media channels who love watching his tricks in action
From toy cars worth thousands of dollars to the ultimate cubby house with fireplace, the son of England’s next king has been given some incredible birthday presents over the years
The third annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee starts on Monday as Mr Albanese shares hopes of a record number of Aussie kids taking part to ‘open up opportunity’ in our fast-changing digital world
Superstar Taylor Swift has topped the charts for the 12th time with the release of Speak Now, meaning she now has more number one albums than any other female artist in history
Sydney man James Webb overcame obesity and a serious illness to become a competitive eater and win third place at a world-famous hotdog eating contest
A photograph shows the incredible moment two whales breach the water’s surface side-by-side as the sea mammals make their way north along the Australian coastline for winter
A video shows the heartwarming moment Vanilla the rescued chimpanzee sees the sky for the first time after 28 years of living inside
Dashing dachshunds, elephants doing yoga and otters shooting hoops are just some of the sports-mad animals making news around the world
France’s historic capital Paris is known as the City of Light but it is also famously a city of literature and letters, now including hosting a world-record attempt at a mass spellathon event
