Over 1000 supporters wearing brightly-coloured T-shirts gathered on the Sydney Opera House steps to celebrate the city hosting the WorldPride festival in 2023.
Farid Farid
More than 2000 people have stripped naked for a sunrise dip in Hobart, marking the winter solstice and end of the Dark Mofo festival.
Ethan James
A shot was fired and a man tasered after a car drove through a police cordon near St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
Staff Writers
A three-member commission of inquiry, which includes an Australian, says Middle East tensions are underpinned by Israel's ‘perpetual occupation’.
Emma Farge and Dan Williams
Pope Francis has selected 21 new cardinals, revealing their names to worshippers in St Peter's Square.
Manuel Schwarz
The Vivid festival has returned to Sydney, lighting up the Opera House and beyond after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the past two years, Muslims celebrated amid curfews and social distancing measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
In just over a month’s time the women and girls who attended a now notorious Perth rehab facility will finally have their day in court. Some have waited years for this moment. Most thought it would never come.
David Hardaker
Germany's annual Oktoberfest will return this year after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and Beyonce were among influential black people honoured at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parade.
Maria Angelica Troncoso
Elvis fans insisted his legacy lives on, as they celebrated the king during a raucous street parade at the 29th Parkes Elvis Festival.
Stephanie Gardiner
Israel says there has been no change in its long-standing ban on Jewish prayer at the compound of Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
Ari Rabinovitch, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta
The Esther Foundation women's rehabilitation centre in Western Australia has called in administrators amid claims former residents were abused and mistreated.
Michael Ramsey
A Perth Christian institution at the centre of abuse allegations and ‘cult-like’ conditions from former residents has gone into voluntary administration.
Phoebe Pin & Kellie Balaam
A teenager has broken her silence on the emotional abuse she suffered as a resident of a prominent WA Christian institution.
Phoebe Pin
There were no signs of any animosity on Good Friday, after a brutal opening to the election campaign, when Anthony Albanese joined Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s wife Jenny at mass in Sydney.
Finbar O’Mallon and Tess Ikonomou
I probably speak for most millennial Aussies when I say the Good Friday/Easter long weekend is simply a welcome window to catch up with family and friends, get a few extra days off and perhaps indulge.
Arylene Westlake-Jennings
WA has recorded 6892 new COVID cases and a further 1100 additional cases dating back to March after rapid antigen tests failed to be reported.
Briana Fiore
A Parliamentary Inquiry will examine damning allegations of mental, physical and sexual abuse that are said to have occurred at a Christian institution in Perth.
A Belmont priest who tried to stop the Archbishop of Perth from selling a piece of land his church sits on says he is considering his next step after the Court of Appeal threw out his bid to prevent the sale.
Emily Moulton
A policy that banned the Australian Christian Lobby, supporters of Taiwan and Tibet and a controversial conservative commentator from hiring State-owned venues in recent years has been scrapped.
Peter Law
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun in much of the Middle East, as the coronavirus and Russia's invasion of Ukraine still loom.
Nowadays, while respecting Church attendees, I personally see belief as a necessary form of mindfulness, an acknowledgement of one’s small place in the universe.
Andrew Miller
Pope Francis says the conflict in Ukraine is a product of ‘the old logic of power that still dominates so-called geopolitics’.
Philip Pullella
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