Australian athlete Sally Pearson is reportedly expected to call time on her athletics career due to persistent injuries.

Australian Olympic legend Sally Pearson has announced that she is pregnant.

Former broadcaster Maurie Plant was laid to rest at St Ignatius Church at Richmond in Melbourne on Wednesday after he died in hospital on January 19.

The Australian gold medal-winning hurdler announced she was expecting her first child in January by posting a photo of a pair of tiny baby shoes on a track, next to her own running spikes.

Cody Simpson, 22, has yet another connection to a personality in the media and entertainment industry.

First Nations artist Mitch Tambo is competing for a chance to represent Australia at Eurovision 2020 in the Netherlands. 

Will Smith was spotted in a remote Australian town on Friday morning. 

The International Monetary Fund is so downbeat about Australia it has downgraded its growth forecasts for 2019 - expecting it to do even worse than Greece which has debt problems.

The OECD's What School Life Means for Students' Lives report, which was released on Wednesday, showed Australia ranked a lowly 70th out of 77 countries for classroom behaviour.

The average house price in Australia was $660,583 in 2019. But in villages across Europe, less than $60,000 will buy you split level villas, stone walled cottages and four-storey hilltop homes.

As one of Hollywood's most successful actors, you'd expect Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson to have a decent grasp of foreign accents.

The Project's Waleed Aly first drew attention to the issue of cultural diversity on television during his Gold Logie acceptance speech in 2016.

For years Australians woke up to her face on the Today show every morning before she moved on to star on The Project. 

Four Australian A-listers have received nominations for next year's SAG Awards. On Wednesday, the nominees for the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced in Los Angeles

Investors have lost almost $1 million after two accused scammers convinced them to finance the career of a young Australian singer trying to make it big in Nashville.

He was once Australia's pop punk heartthrob, known for his colourfully-dyed hair and iconic single Wasabi. 

His hit single Wasabi spent 22 weeks in the ARIA charts after he placed who placed fourth on Australian Idol in 2005.

He was a household name in the mid-2000s thanks to his memorable stint on Australian Idol and popular single Wasabi.

Each year, Halloween is becoming more prominent in Australia.  

Solange Knowles is setting the record straight about a recent call for extras to join the musician on stage at 2018 Vivid Live festival for free. Solange is now claiming the person who posted it was misinformed.

Samba Widhyastuti, 59, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris last month - three years after her 25-year-old boyfriend Florent Gregoire, from Nantes, disappeared.

Australian cabaret singer Hans, real name Matt Gilbertson, has become the first Australian act to go through to the grand final of America's Got Talent.

Australians in the Middle East have been told they should leave now after rising tensions following the killing of an Iranian general by a US drone strike. 

Iran on Wednesday launched more than a dozen missiles against two US-led military bases in response to the US assassination of an Iranian military chief.

Australia could potentially find itself embroiled in another conflict in the Middle East after Iran launched a revenge rocket attack on American air bases in Iraq .

Hundreds of Australian troops will stay in Iraq after Iranian rockets fired on US-led military bases in the country. Australia has several hundred troops deployed to Iraq along with a team of diplomatic staff.

An Australian street artist has reignited his feud with 50 Cent after painting a giant mural of the rapper's image combined with that of pop star Taylor Swift. 

Australian swimmer Shayna Jack reportedly failed a doping test ahead of the World Championships.

Brisbane based freestyler Jack on Sunday night confirmed she was the latest athlete to be caught up in a doping scandal, having tested positive to Ligandrol during a routine drug test.

The Brisbane-based 20-year-old is the latest rising star to be embroiled in a doping scandal, having tested positive to Ligandrol during a routine drug test last month.

The sporting authority released a statement on Monday to address its general investigative processes - after it came under heavy fire for not revealing the results.

The 23-year-old refused to share the podium with victorious Sun after winning silver in the men's 400m freestyle final at FINA's World Championships in South Korea on July 21.

World doubles No.1 tennis player Robert Farah, 32, has pulled out of the Australian Open after testing positive to steroids.

Boyle, a vocal activist for clean sport, has said Horton deserves the 2019 South Korea world championships gold medal after Sun Yang was hit with an eight year ban for his second doping offence.

The 23-year-old defeated teenager Marketa Vondrousova in a 6-1, 6-3, in the final of the Roland-Garros on Saturday.

Aussie French Open winner Ash Barty has revealed the text message sent from a fellow indigenous tennis star which kept her from quitting professional tennis. 

Australian star Ash Barty is just two wins away from becoming world number one after she defeated Venus Williams to reach the semi-finals of the Birmingham Classic. 

Ashleigh Barty is one match away from becoming the first Australian to be crowned women's world number one in 43 years after progressing to the final of the Nature Valley Classic.

Ashleigh Barty is poised to crown her phenomenal season by becoming the first Australian woman to ever top the year-ending tennis rankings.

Ashleigh Barty's coach can pinpoint the moment when the Australian morphed from good to a great.

Leonardo DiCaprio has weighed in on Australia's bushfire crisis and has called for a 'radical overhaul' of the country's conservation efforts, in an Instagram post.

An Australian exchange student who ran tours in North Korea has been arrested after posting about life in the secretive country.

Alek Sigley's wife Yuka Morinaga said she received her last message from him on Monday. The 26-year-old, who is based in Tokyo, usually speaks to Mr Sigley every day on WhatsApp.

Perth man Alek Sigley, missing in North Korea, may have been silenced ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to the demilitarized zone, an expert said on Friday.

Alek Sigley hasn't been heard or seen since Tuesday morning and is believed to be detained in North Korea.

Alek Sigley, 29, last made contact with his family on June 25, sparking concerns he had been detained in the secretive nation's capital, Pyongyang.

Alek Sigley, 29, landed in China safe and well on Thursday after spending nine days detained in the communist country.

The hermit country claimed on Saturday that Alek Sigley had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North.

Alek Sigley (left), 29, who is believed to be the only Australian living in North Korea, went missing this week after a series of posts on social media about life in the mysterious capital of Pyongyang.

The order came as North Korea warned of 'undesirable consequences' after the US seized one of its sanction-breaking cargo ships.