Frankly, it is a beautiful collection of stories about real people ...

To celebrate the release of André Rieu’s ‘Shall We Dance?’ on DVD on 13th March, XXX is giving you the chance to win one of FIVE copies.

Luckily for Eurovision fans, all 41 songs will be available on EUROVISION 2020 – The Album - which is released on May 15th On UMC Records.

The Eurovision: Big Night In telecast on Saturday will be remarkable for achieving a feat of technical wizardry not seen on Australian television.

Erin Molan has put to rest her rumoured feud with rugby league great Andrew Johns.

Canadian nursing homes look to Washington State for lessons about COVID-19, public health vs. surveillance in China's battle against the coronavirus, the Jewish-Palestinian lesbian couple who mine their relationship for comedy gold, the Japanese government's plan to repopulate Fukushima, Dr. Seuss' complicated history as a political cartoonist and more.

Jewel beetles iridescent camouflage, better talk on climate change and flying west

As the COVID-19 crisis trudges on, many are shifting their focus to the day-to-day struggles of living amid a global pandemic and away from an increasingly uncertain future.   

Extreme leaders, inequality, and unhappy citizens: what happened to the promise of a new day in Eastern and Central Europe? From the fall of the Wall to this pandemic era, looking at the legacy of an ill-fitting “politics of imitation,” with 2020 Gelber Prize-winners Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes.

Rhythm is of course a fundamental part of music. But neuroscience is revealing that it’s also a fundamental part of our innermost selves: how we learn to walk, talk, read and even bond with others. From heartbeats heard in the womb, to the underlying rhythmic patterns of thought, rhythm — as one researcher puts it — is life.

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) De aandelenmarkten in Europa zijn hoger het weekend ingegaan. De Stoxx Europe 600 index sloot vrijdag 0,9 procent in de plus op 341,05 punten, de Duitse DAX steeg 1,4 procent op een slot van 10.904,48 punten en de Franse CAC 40 sloot 1,1 procent hoger op 4.549,64 punten. De Londense beurs was gesloten vanwege een zogenoemde bank holiday.

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) Op Wall Street zijn vrijdag zes van de negen AEX-genoteerde fondsen ten opzichte van het slot in Amsterdam hoger gesloten.

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) Moody's Investors Service heeft de kredietrating van ArcelorMittal verlaagd van Baa3 naar Ba1, wat gelijk staat aan een zogeheten junk status. Dit bleek vrijdagavond.

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) Beleggers zijn in mei iets positiever over de financile markten, maar verwachten geen zomerrally. Dat bleek zaterdag uit de nieuwe BinckBank Beleggersbarometer, waarin beleggende klanten hun oordeel over het beursklimaat geven.

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Klanten die een internetabonnement van KPN hebben waren altijd verplicht om gebruik te maken van het modem dat de provider in bruikleen meeleverde; de zogenoemde Experia Box. KPN heeft deze verplichte voorwaarde nu gewijzigd. Daardoor is het nu ook mogelijk om een eigen modem te kiezen en aan te sluiten.

In this time of keeping our distance, we can still connect. Through music. The Life Matters team invites you to email us your song choice to help us all in these troubled times, and the story behind that choice. We'll being playing one of those songs each day on Life Matters as a way of lifting all our spirits. We can't wait to hear from you!

An overwhelmingly joyous account of one of Mozart’s lesser-known operas.

Uchida's measured approach reaps rewards, capturing the joy in this life-affirming music.

The most exciting and consistently well-sung Don Giovanni to appear for several years.

A museum can reopen May 18 to 50 people. Casinos can reopen to hundreds and they can smoke as well. What's wrong with this picture?

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Tourism operators on one of Tasmania's breathtaking islands are riding a wave of untapped beauty and are reeling in visitors with locally grown produce.

Staff working in a government building in Tasmania thought they struck gold when they found an artwork by Pierre-Auguste Renoir on the office walls, but museum curators were able to confirm it was a reproduction when they magnified the image and saw there were pixels.

Ridley Scott returns to the world of science fiction with a bold, visually stunning film that offers some surprises and raises lots of questions.

If you thought the first Alien (or the third for that matter) was scary and out of control... strap yourself in!

Witty and highly cinematically inventive, a stylized affair backed by an attractive cast (including at least six credited babies and maybe an animatronic or two - who can tell?) and with plenty of ironic narration.

This exquisite little film is almost like a thriller in its grip on the viewer as well as a heart rending investigation into the human soul and the formation of the adult living in every child.

An Australian medicinal cannabis company is working to address a global shortage of pharmaceutical-grade product, reducing cost and improving access at the same time.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced museums and other public institutions to shut their doors and go digital.

As the voluntary assisted dying debate rages in Western Australia, David Goodall's family is still processing the 104-year-old's decision to travel to Switzerland to end his life.

Western Australia moves significantly closer to legalising voluntary assisted dying with the State Government's euthanasia bill sailing through the Lower House of Parliament but it still faces a major hurdle.

Opponents of Western Australia's voluntary assisted dying bill are defeated in their attempt to put a final vote in State Parliament on hold until well into next year.

Enormous growth of women's football in Europe threatens to shift the global landscape and change the way leagues and confederations around the world function.

When Grammy-nominated American jazz performer Joey DeFrancesco sold his blonde-coloured Hammond B3 organ over eBay to an Australian bidder, he had one condition. That it be made available when he played in Australia.

Pip the dog was found wandering alone on the Birdsville Track, but a series of lucky breaks have led her to be reunited with her owner more than 220km away.

At Eumundi, in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland, 43 per cent of people identify as having no religion, and now the town's last church has called it a day.

Research continues to point to blue-green algae toxins as a trigger for neurological diseases, with motor neurone disease under increased investigation.

How the Wiradjuri people, indigenous to the Central West of New South Wales, survived European settlement.

Courts of law exist for good reason, but the judicial process can also retraumatize, rather than heal, victims and witnesses who are exposed to it. Therapeutic jurisprudence offers a different approach