15 Aug: The Big Little Lies actress and Lisa Bonet were staying at her friend's home amid the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year when they got into a "little bit of a pickle" after the 57-year-old model's beloved reptile Orpheus slithered its way into a tiny hole in the bathroom and they were unable to retrieve her without causing major damage... more
15 Aug: Months after New South Wales became the first state to reform the "outdated" law banning people from being laid to rest with their pets, advocates are urging the Victorian government to catch up.... more
15 Aug: Melbourne and Penrith have staged a golden point thriller to open round 24 of the NRL league season - Storm hooker Harry Grant's turned Harry Houdini with a dummy in front of the posts to score the try which won the match 22-18... more
15 Aug: A security contractor held a senior role in what a US legal service says is an "anti-government extremist group" linked to the hard right. Now he works on an Israel- and US-backed humanitarian aid project in Gaza.... more
15 Aug: James O'Connor will assume the playmaking duties for the Wallabies as they seek to build on their third-test win over the Lions with a victory away against the Springboks to start the Rugby Championship... more
15 Aug: The 57-year-old presenter - who has Katie, 33, and Kevin, 31, with ex-wife Gina Maddy and Jane, 11, and Billy, eight, with spouse Molly McNearney - has Italian heritage on his mother's side so sought to obtain official links to Europe because he is so unhappy with the state of the US under the presidency of Donald Trump... more
15 Aug: The 79-year-old music icon has offered some advice to her friends Kelly and Reba McEntire following the death of Blackstock - who was Kelly's ex-husband and Reba's stepson - and touched on her own experiences with grief after her husband Carl Thomas Dean died earlier this year aged 82... more
15 Aug: The former WWE boss - who has given his first interview since resigning from the wrestling promotion's parent company TKO amid a lawsuit accusing him of sex trafficking and sexual assault - has reflected on the late world champion's 2015 scandal when he was heard using racist language in a leaked tape... more
15 Aug: The Freakier Friday actor tied the knot with Grey's Anatomy actress Dianne Doan and revealed the best piece of advice he was given prior to marriage, was to go to couples therapy "before you need it"... more
RUGBY A reversion to a largely first-choice team for the All Blacks, as they open the Rugby Championship against Argentina on Sunday morning in Cordoba More...
BUSINESS Inflation appears to be back on the rise More...