CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian set his third Christmas-themed world record in as many years Friday by illuminating a tree in downtown Canberra with 518,838 twinkling lights. Guinness World ...

The rescue team said the koala was "desperate to get in the Christmas spirit" and "wanted to be the fairy on the Christmas tree" Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE.

ADELAIDE, SA — An Australian family came home to find a surprise ornament in their Christmas tree. A juvenile Koala had broken in and attached itself to the 6-foot plastic tree. Amanda McCormick of ...

Australian duo Salt Tree has announced an Australian Tour for October and November this year. The duo hails from the coastal region where the forests meet the sea. The major inspiration for their ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

It seems that everyone is trying to get into the Christmas spirit this year — even koalas. An Australian family was in for a big surprise this week when they discovered a koala had wandered into their ...

Based on the east coast of Australia, AUSTRALIAN THEATRE LIVE (ATL) is a not-for-profit arts organization that records and distributes Australian live performances. Through doing so, ATL is preserving ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A red panda that spent two days on the lam after escaping from an Australian zoo was recaptured Sunday after he was spotted hanging out in a fig tree in a nearby park. Named ...

An Australian hiker was killed by a fallen tree on a strenuous trail at Yosemite National Park last week, officials said. The 22-year-old man, identified by the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office as ...