Starring Jude Law, The Young Pope is an irreverent depiction of a parallel universe; it may offend some of the Catholic faithful, but its real aim is to provoke.

Isaiah Firebrace qualifies for the Eurovision final, but it doesn't come easy for the Australian in the first semi-final.

A painting by renowned Australian landscape artist Eugene von Guérard, which has not been seen by art scholars for almost 150 years, is rediscovered.

A new exhibition reveals rare, and sometimes unseen, photographs of the late pop icon David Bowie.

The publishing industry is changing rapidly and data that appears robust tells us less than it once did, writes Nick Earls.

Reality TV star Kylie Jenner apologises for keeping fans in the dark about her pregnancy after giving birth to baby girl, saying it was something, "I chose not to do in front of the world".

The Daily Mail apologises to Melania Trump and agrees to pay damages reportedly worth nearly $US3 million after publishing an article saying she offered "services beyond simply modelling" in her former job.

For a country that's been at war for the past six years, it may come as a surprise that Syria still has a film industry.

There are 10 tickets out of Isaiah Firebrace's Eurovision semi-final — can Australia's 2017 entry grab one to make it to the final?

Video game developers are venting frustration over what they say is government inaction in their industry, a week after the Federal Government tabled its response to an inquiry into the local games sector.

The stars of political satire television series Veep are trying to come to terms with the fact their show left an Australian MP with a black eye.

Nearly two months have passed since the Adelaide Festival but a large concrete slab remains embedded in the city's River Torrens, creating an eyesore for tourists in a precinct the city boasts as one of its prettiest.

A Kalgoorlie puppet show is taking flight as children tell the story of how Aboriginal people were given the gift of language by birds.

Respected sports broadcaster Gerard Whateley announces he is leaving ABC Grandstand to take up a role at Melbourne-based radio station SEN.

For thousands of members of a popular online entertainment universe, a convention held in Sydney over the weekend was a rare opportunity to meet face to face.

It's been 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published, but it might never have happened if it weren't for publisher Nigel Newton's daughter.

Queensland musician Jeremy Marou will be changing his rider and increasing the amount of exercise he does after suffering a heart attack.

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog kills off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol.

A young photographer in the 1950s was sent to a sheep station to learn about the wool industry. In the process, he documented a romantic archive of rural Australia.

A pro-Israel organisation uses a full-page ad in the Washington Post to call singer-songwriter Lorde a "bigot" and accuse New Zealand of "growing prejudice" against the Jewish people.

If Sydney ever had a superhero, maybe it was Trough Man: a character who lay down in the urinals at dance parties in the 1980s.

Chef and Melbourne Victory's number one ticket holder George Calombaris apologises for getting involved in an altercation at the A-League grand final in Sydney on Sunday night.

Before cameras even begin to roll, female characters suffer sexism in how they are described on the pages of screenplays. But what can we do to improve this?

Melbourne street artists are using creativity to inject colour into the "ugly grey" anti-terrorism bollards recently installed in pedestrian strips — so what do residents and visitors think?

A man is charged over a sexual assault at the Falls Music Festival in Tasmania after being apprehended in a citizen's arrest by the alleged victim and her friend.