Today show host Matt Lauer apologises for what he calls his "troubling flaws" in a statement read out on the popular NBC morning show on Thursday, a day after the network fired him for inappropriate sexual behaviour.

In the midst of the longest, most successful career in music history, Sir Paul McCartney considers himself a lucky man because at the age of 75, he is still in hot demand.

For most people diagnosed with cancer, life becomes focused on one thing: survival. Now a unique program is trying to change that by using art therapy to complement conventional medicine.

The well-known Australian handbag and accessories retailer, Oroton, has gone into voluntary administration.

Imagine being asked to catch up with a friend and former work mate who just happens to be The Beatles' Paul McCartney?

How do you write music that can live up to ABBA? Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall explain their approach to writing songs for the Muriel's Wedding musical.

Could it be your incessant hunger for content that "broke" the news? Comedian Tom Ballard thinks so, but it's OK — he has a solution.

If testosterone was flammable, you'd probably need to hose down the screen. But unlike many other contemporary action movies, Only The Brave doesn't come with a side order of or irony or self-deprecation.

Academy Award winner and Australian acting icon Geoffrey Rush denies allegations of "inappropriate behaviour" while working on a play with the Sydney Theatre Company, saying information has been withheld from him.

The attempt by a group calling itself Project Veritas to trick The Washington Post into reporting manufactured sex assault allegations reads like a Hollywood script, but shows there's a war going on in which journalists' reputations are collateral damage, writes Micheline Maynard.

There appears to be a strong thirst for learning after a sold-out event in Melbourne, with a series of 20 talks in 10 different bars, which participants say is a new way for people to engage and tell stories in an informal setting.

Comedian Shaun Micallef was moved to tears when he recorded the final program in the ABC's famed Studio 31, known as The Dream Factory, the incubator of decades of iconic Australian television programming.

Brightly coloured murals are said to be having the unintended effect of saving Darwin businesses money.

Is Australian music getting lost in a globalised world of streaming giants?

Watch as two French daredevils turn boarding a plane into an extreme sport, making their entrance mid-air.

A quarter of women reported having experienced sexual harassment in the workplace in the past five years, but limited awareness of this unlawful behaviour suggests it's the tip of a very large iceberg, writes Sara Charlesworth.

Museum of Old and New Art owner David Walsh is providing moral and financial support to the anti-poker machine cause in Tasmania, as Liberal and Labor are warned if public sentiment on the issue is ignored "perhaps the parliamentary system needs to be disrupted".

The embattled gardening guru is facing fresh claims about inappropriate behaviour, including allegedly swearing at and calling a couple who lost relatives in the Bali bombing "wogs".

The embattled gardening guru is facing fresh claims about inappropriate behaviour, including allegedly swearing at and calling a couple who lost relatives in the Bali bombing "wogs".

Don Burke appeared in a 1993 public campaign to prevent violence against women, but following a complaint about the TV star's attitude to women, he was asked to withdraw from the campaign but refused.