Tag: Sydney

VIDEO & PHOTOS: Take a look at what else is aglow and wowing admirers in Sydney for Vivid 2017...

Is Melbourne really Australia’s music capital? I crunched the numbers to find that the jury is still out on this claim. Indeed arch rival, Sydney (or even Adelaide) have a chance to claim this title.

WATCH: No, she hasn't emigrated. She's just on holiday!

Going away on a holiday can be a great idea. There are many places you can visit to spend your time. One of the best holiday spots is a beach and Sydney is home to many of them. If this is the first time you are going on a beach ...

Sydney's annual Vivid Festival never fails to wow us with its spectacular light art displays across the city's landmarks.

Sydney shooter reportedly takes hostages after allegedly killing one man and wounding two others.

A little man in an iron suit has some big fans, including Robert Downy Jr himself.

What are the most popular places in Australia to Instagram?

Australian fans take to social media showing excitement over Jackman's "Broadway to Oz" show.

Ageing career criminal in Australia to be deported back to UK after more than six decades.

The mystery of how an Australian feline found himself in Ireland set imaginations a flight.

Competing with Dubai, Seattle and Singapore; Sydney ranked top for the world’s best skylines.

London is the world’s favourite holiday city and Sydney drops 8 places to no 17.

Australia and London are becoming more cycle friendly in a bid to ease traffic congestion frustrations and limit emissions.

Sydney has something for everyone, and it DOES beat its southern rival.

Luxury travel company owner and global adventurer, Norman Peires, reveals his top itinerary for a 24-hour whistle stop visit to Australia’s most vibrant city.

Hundreds of south-west Sydney residents evacuated their houses due to flooding across Sydney after severe storms.

Sydney brollie apocalypse: rest in pieces, dear umbrellas.

The Carnival Spirit ocean liner is unable to make port in Sydney due to huge storms.

Sydney is currently experiencing the biggest storm of the century. While the Bureau of Meteorology earlier indicated that conditions would ease, it is expected that conditions will be just as bad, possibly worse, tonight.

IMAGE OF THE DAY: Check out this photo of a bloke being blown sideways at Sydney's Bondi Beach during the wild weather. Is it legit?

WATCH: Wild weather tosses Sydney ferry and roles a cruise liner. It's enough to turn your stomach.

NSW battered by severe weather leaving three dead, over 200,000 homes without power and several washed away.

Two Australian cities cracked Conde Nast's Reader's Choice Awards world top 20 for foodies.

Australia or the United Kingdom - which is more photogenic? Let's ask Instagram...

The New Year gets underway in Sydney with yet another dazzling fireworks spectacular.

Global times for viewing the spectacular Sydney fireworks on New Year’s Eve, live.

Martin Place becomes moving floral memorial to the lives lost in the Sydney hostage crisis. Prime Minister joins mourners.

The two hostages who were fatally wounded when the siege was brought to a dramatic have been identified as a barrister and the manager of the Lindt café. A number of others received gunshot wounds.

Apparent gunshots and explosions heard as police put end Australian hostage crisis. Injured ferried to hospital.

Live blog of the Sydney siege hostage crisis in Martin Place, as it was being reported by Australian media.

The man holding hostages in Sydney is known to police as being on bail, charged with over 40 serious offences.

Police have made contact with the gunman in the Sydney siege crisis and five hostages are now free.

2GB talkback host, Ray Hadley, says he spoke on the phone to a hostage inside the Sydney café under siege but refused to put the call to air. He claims the gunman wanted to speak to the prime minister.

Hostages have been seen coming out of the café at the centre of the siege in Sydney.

Witnesses to the siege in Sydney’s Martin place tell of terrifying scenes.

The Sydney Opera House has been evacuated as hostage siege takes place in the city’s CBD.

A gunman has taken a number of people hostage inside a café in Sydney’s CBD. A black flag with Islamic text has been displayed in the window of the premises.

More reasons as to why you should soak up the sun in Sydney, Australia

David Hicks shouts down George Brandis about the torture he received at Guantanamo Bay, claiming the government at the time was fully aware of what happened to him

Where is best to live, work, be seen and find a date? Australia is doing pretty well in all departments.

Angelina Jolie will be in Australia for the premier of her film shot Down Under, following being awarded an honourary dame title by the Queen.

A two-year partnership between the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association and Gay and Lesbian Tourism Australia will see Australia benefiting from the lucrative gay and lesbian travel market.

London has overtaken Hong Kong as the world's most expensive city and is twice as expensive as Sydney, due mostly to rising rent and employee costs.

Australia’s first morning rave attracted more than 370 dancers who felt like popping into a party rave at 6:30 am. Yes that’s right, AM, as in after midnight, like in the morning (early, early in the morning).

A statement made by District Court judge Gary Neilson that sex between siblings is gaining acceptance has been met with severe criticism.

The Great Barrier Reef and Uluru are getting less tourist attention and the Australian War Memorial is now named among the top 25 global tourist destinations.

The most exclusive Australian suburbs to live in when you win the Lotto.

On Tuesday Aussies responded to the Twitter invitation by British band Coldplay to help them with the Sydney filming of the video for their new single 'A Sky Full of Stars'.

The lights have been switched on for the 18-day Vivid Festival in Sydney.