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When delivered to an unsuspecting group, especially where children are present, swearing can amount to a criminal offence. Shutterstock This article contains explicit language. Is it...

Older people’s bodies can’t regulate their temperature as well as younger people’s. From shutterstock.com Australian summer temperatures have risen by 1.66℃ over the past 20...

Australian families have been sitting down in front of the TV on New Year’s Eve for over 60 years. Wikimedia Commons Broadcasting fireworks on TV...

Happy birthday Beethoven, 250 this year. Here, artist Ottmar Hoerl’s sculptural tribute in Bonn, Germany.Shutterstock In a series marking the 250th year of his...

Rowan Atkinson’s character is as original as ever. ITV January 1 1990, Mr Bean debuted on ITV to an audience of 13.45 million. The...

The Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) has been found in Cairns. It’s just one of the introduced bees buzzing under the radar. Tobias Smith, Author...

Though her brave acts were acknowledged after her death, Wauba Debar’s grave was later robbed in the name of “science”. Tirin/Wikimedia Aboriginal and Torres...

Jazz was the most influential musical movement of the 20th century. What’s its story? The Count Basie Orchestra. After more than 100 years of history,...

Baby boomers who drink and take drugs risk a range of physical and mental problems that younger substance users don’t necessarily face. If you...

Image:Wes Mountain It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a...