Former federal Liberal MP Katie Allen has died aged 59, after developing a rare form of cancer, her family has announced.

A number of our beloved stars took their final bows this year. Here, we reflect on some famous lives well lived in Hollywood ...

Peter Dutton was 2025’s biggest electoral loser, forcing the Coalition into a tiny minority and losing his own seat in the ...

From Ivan Milat’s killing fields in Belanglo State Forest to the grisly horror of Snowtown’s barrels, Australia’s most ...

The entire staff was there at our first Christmas Eve office party, including our Basque contingency Santiago Saizarbitoria and his wife Maria and even Double-Tough had ventured up from our distant ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

If you need cheering up, listen to the exuberant song “Praises,” by saxophonist Jimmy Greene, who has included us in his long ...

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England, though, were jerks. Old English medical texts attributed various diseases to elves. If you felt a sharp, unexplained pain, it was probably the result of an “ elfshot ”—an ...

More than 41,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel this year and many are ferried around the country to accommodation in towns and cities.

Shetland-based architect Richard Gibson, whose architecture was described as ‘characterised by care’, died at the end of 2024. His passing, at the age of 89, was widely reported at the start of this ...

Nevada has always harbored an independent streak, embracing the unusual and unexpected across its desert landscape. But even in a state known for its quirks, Cemetery Pulp stands out like a ...