Human Interest

A high school art portrait launched Petrina Ryan-Kleid's career. Forty years and several satirical portraits later, she has been reunited with the person who bought her first work.

Hobby-based pop-up clubs are attracting people from university students and office workers to new migrants and academics.

Kwong Wan Lo stowed away on a ship bound for Australia 45 years ago. With no legal right to stay, he built a life in Sydney anyway.

With more than 150 acting roles under his belt, Sam Neill leaves a lasting legacy to the film and TV industry, and an array of characters that will stay in fans' hearts forever.

Actor Sam Neill might have officially been a Kiwi but he did some of his best work in Australian film and television. At home on either side of the ditch, this is Sam Neill's story.

As Mark Beretta rode his bike up a steep Tasmanian mountain in March with all his might, it was none other than Richard Scolyer who overtook him.

The former AFLW player was an adult when she realised her childhood had warped her understanding of love.

After three decades of letters, emails and social media exchanges, a chance encounter brings two penpals face-to-face for the first time.

When Araki Osamu first heard reports a bear had been seen in the streets of his home town, a 1-hour bullet train ride north of Tokyo, he dismissed it as "fake news".

When a group of Jewish mates decided to support a newly arrived Muslim family, all of their lives would change. Together they have flipped expectations about religion and friendship.

A runner has been pierced in the face by a horn at the San Fermin bull run festival in Pamplona, in northern Spain.

Left quadriplegic in an accident, every line the late Gunggari man drew and every word he scrawled in ink was created without a pen in his hands.

Donald isn't alone in chasing thrills at an older age, with data from SkyDive Australia showing more than 14,000 people over 50 have dived since 2023.

Perth's youngest garbage collector

Perth boy Thomas Aldworth has been welcomed as an official helper by the City of Perth waste management team and he even has his own uniform.

American aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who was the oldest woman to go to space, has died at 87 in Texas.

Five hours after the young boy was pronounced dead next to a suburban swimming pool in the US state of Arizona, police were notified that the child was breathing again at a local hospital.

The strained relationship between Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, has been laid bare once again, after an awkward stand-off over accommodation at Buckingham Palace.

The occasion was complicated by severe storms that gathered near Washington, forcing event organisers to order an earlier evacuation. 

Among the rubble and dust, stories of miraculous survival and resilience emerge from Venezuela.