World

Sir Bruce Small had a bold plan to revive tourism on the Gold Coast. All he needed was a bevy of beautiful women and a captive audience in cold southern states.

When the world was shutdown during the the COVID pandemic, artist cartographer Anton Thomas took to creating a map – not of national borders – but of the wildlife our planet has to offer.

How sneaker brands charge up to 10,000 times the cost of manufacturing — and fans eat it up.

A group of heritage-listed huts will not be moved to make way for a new rugby league high performance centre after outcry from community groups.  

Apple unveils a long-rumoured headset that will place its users between the virtual and real worlds.

Prince Harry is starting the year with another volley in his battle with the royal family, as palace watchers get their first glimpse of his new autobiography, Spare — and an insight into how bad things have got between the two brothers.  

The Widi Reserve is a stunning, currently uninhabited archipelago in eastern Indonesia consisting of about 100 islands in a 315,000-hectare Marine Protected Area. 

Maria Tran struggled to break through in white- and male-dominated movie industries, so she's making her own. Hers is one of many kickarse stories in this year's OzAsia Festival.

South Korean officials previously debated holding a public survey on whether the group would be granted an exemption.

For years, Beijing has tried to isolate Taiwan from the world through military threats and dollar diplomacy, but the self-governed island is finding ways to reconnect with the world. 

Fearing for her safety, the first woman to win TV singing contest Afghan Star has escaped to Melbourne, as the Taliban bans non-religious music once again.

The phenomenon has attracted tens of millions of fans leaving many confused trying to figure out who this man is, and what his "followers" are doing.

As the long-awaited replacement for White Night and the Melbourne Festival, Rising set out to deliver a monumental program of public and international arts, but the small moments are perhaps its best feature.

Having been delayed by COVID for two years, Melbourne’s newest cultural festival is set to wow audiences with headliners Sampa the Great and Masego and a raft of public art events.

Footage of residents queuing up outside groceries stores, shopping vegetables and empty shelves in supermarket.

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that China's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not "sustainable" and its impact on human rights needs to be taken into consideration.

Beijing residents are bracing for a possible strict lockdown after the city reported 47 COVID-19 cases in three days. James Oaten reports.

Elsy Wameyo is keen to showcase her music when she performs at the Adelaide music festival ahead of debut album dropping.

With Russia now becoming increasingly isolated from global networks, it's potentially easier to give the Kremlin full control of Russia's internet. Here's what that means, write Mohiuddin Ahmed and Paul Haskell-Dowland.

There's a small but surging population of Brazilians living on the Gold Coast. Between 2011 and 2016, their numbers jumped from a few hundred to about 2,000, one of the fastest growth rates out of any nationality. While the pandemic has put that on hold, it's expected more Brazilians will decide to call the Gold Coast home as the world reopens.

Although celebrations are muted for a third time in a row due to the pandemic, many hope the Year of the Tiger will bring an end to covid-19.

Candidates loyal to China win a majority of seats in the city's Legislative Council, as voter turnout plummets to the lowest since the British handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997.

When Chinese-Australian artist Jian Guo joined the People's Liberation Army during the peak of the Sino-Vietnamese War, he and his comrades used to listen to Radio Australia illegally. That's how he heard the song that changed his life.

China now has fewer officially reported COVID-19 cases than Australia, and many Chinese citizens believe maintaining "COVID zero" by keeping its international borders closed is the only way to protect them — even if it means they continue to be separated from family.

Who originally decided on the deadline to withdraw foreign troops out of Afghanistan, and when was it set? Here's everything you need to know about the August 31 deadline.