She's in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open later this month, and Maria Sharapova made the most of a rare day off on Friday, visiting the National Gallery of Victoria.

My Top Ten this year covers the full range of new festive albums, starting with Old Bing.

The trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary, France's answer in both glamour and virtuosity to our own Alison Balsom, has a new album that's guaranteed to add an extra layer of good cheer this Christmas.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason's new album, his second for Decca, is a real curate's egg.

John Wilson's hobby is creating orchestras. He began at college with a small jazz ensemble, which became the John Wilson Orchestra, specialising in music from Hollywood musicals.

Herbert von Karajan, who died in 1989, shifted 200 million albums - an astonishing figure for a classical musician.

Hats off to Deutsche Grammophon. Not only is it the producer of the finest complete Beethoven set in this, his 250th anniversary year.

Igor Stravinsky, not a great one for dishing out prizes to his colleagues, declared that Poulenc had the greatest melodic gift of any 20th-century composer.

Georges Bizet was 17, and a student working on a piano reduction of Charles Gounod's symphonies, when he wrote his own solitary Symphony.

Sometimes hype is just that; hype. But occasionally it's true.

We don't see much of Berlin-based Daniel Hope these days, but an album like this shows us what we are missing.

Footage from the Queen's visit to the Haig Housing development in South London reveals how Her Majesty, 93, told off a schoolboy who had given her a rousing welcome with his classmates.

Former Winchester College pupil Maximilian Charles Saunders-Stoner, 19, was found dead at home in West Meon, Hampshire. A local shop owner said: 'I knew him very well. It is very sad.'

The songbird performed classic anthems including We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover for 30 minutes behind closed doors for the first time in the venue's 150-year history.

Bella wowed in a show-stopping look as she proved to be the life and soul of the bash - which was also attended by Cindy Crawford and Sara Sampaio.

Laura Trott added the women's omnium world title to the team pursuit gold at the world championships in Melbourne on Saturday.

The French national of Arab descent was stopped by customs officials when he arrived at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport two days after Islamic State terrorists targeted Paris, killing 130 people.

WARNING: Distressing content. Mother Gabriella Morley, of Bramley, Leeds, gave birth to her stillborn daughter Poppy after the baby was poisoned in the womb by a pregnancy-related liver condition.

Pulp Fiction-obsessed Will Cornick, now 19, is serving a minimum 20-year sentence for stabbing Ann Maguire during a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.

MATT HUGHES - SPECIAL REPORT: During the years since Sir Mo Farah missed two drugs tests, his memory does not appear to have improved.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: There are growing doubts over Neil Black's future as the performance director of UK Athletics after he refused to rule out resigning after the Alberto Salazar scandal.

EXCLUSIVE: The extent to which Mo Farah's controversial former coach Alberto Salazar left the Briton exposed to potential embarrassment is revealed.

Sir Mo Farah faces a spicy showdown with former training partner Galen Rupp and controversial ex-coach Alberto Salazar after confirming he will run the Chicago Marathon on October 7.

Norwich full-back Jamal Lewis has been included in the Northern Ireland squad for the their games against Netherlands and Crech Republic despite suffering an elbow injury.

Tamsin Westhorpe is the head gardener at Stockton Bury in Hertfordshire. The former journalist has penned a diary account of the four-acre garden that has been in her family for five generations.

Paramedics were called to a stone supplier in Dingley Village, in Melbourne's south east, at about 10am on Thursday.

Amanda Davey from Melbourne, had taken off her expensive ring and placed it on the coffee table to tie her hair up to avoid it getting caught in her scrunchie.

Shane Warne's 'favourite' Melbourne's mansion in affluent Brighton has been partly knocked down by its new owner.

The cancellation of Royal Melbourne Show, at a cost of $250 million to the economy, triggered fresh doubts about this year's spring racing season.

The second of four police officers killed in last week's tragic truck crash has been farewelled in another solemn service at Victoria's police academy. 

She is currently isolating inside her $7.3million mansion with her four young children and husband Chris Judd.

Desperate motorists beeped at the truck to alert the driver who was forcing the car along the Western Ring Road Freeway in Derrimut, Melbourne on Friday morning.

The victim and his younger brother were walking through Craigieburn Central shopping centre's carpark in Melbourne when they were set upon by seven boys.

Up to 30 protesters from the St Kilda Rebellion group demanded the end of lockdown laws at Acland Street, St Kilda, Melbourne on Friday afternoon.

An abused pet cat had its legs taped and cable tied together before being left for dead in a public park. 

Melbourne mum Kelly Bubeck was driving to work on the Western Ring Road on Friday when the truck hit her from behind.

Dean Laidley's alleged downfall is just the latest in a spate of unsavoury incidents to involve players from the champion team - among them a player some consider to be the greatest ever.

A photo showed the group of officers surrounding the middle-aged woman at Fawkner Park in South Yarra on Sunday around 4pm.

The Block has resumed production in Melbourne after a six-week break. 

Production of The Block was brought to a grinding halt six weeks ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

MasterChef divided viewers on Monday, after it was revealed the episode had been filmed in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood East. And fans had plenty to say about the decision.

Police were called to Park Street in South Melbourne at about 2.15pm on Monday and made the grim discovery.

A Melbourne truck driver who travelled almost one kilometre down a busy highway with a car stuck to his bumper said he had no idea he had clipped another vehicle. 

The reinstatement of fines marks the end of a two-month hiatus on parking restrictions in both cities' CBD's announced on March 24 in response to the coronavirus lockdown.     

Exclusive Melbourne restaurant Enter via Laundry's website crashed after it featured on Tuesday night's episode of MasterChef: Back to Win.

Olympia Valance has sold her apartment for more than the $550,000 asking price.  

There are now 45 cases of the deadly respiratory infection linked to Cedar Meats in Brooklyn, west Melbourne.

One of Melbourne's most influential football reporters for more than two decades has revealed he knew Dean Laidley was a cross dresser for up to 12 years. 

Police have yet to lay charges over the alleged murder after Ms Price's body was discovered inside a townhouse complex on Park Street at about 2.15pm on Monday.

The collisions on the Monash Freeway led delays to stretch from Blackburn to Heatherton roads.