Human Interest

The memory of champion racehorse will not be forgotten but his statue won't quite make full scale as a dedicated country turf club member pushes on with a hometown tribute.

With 456 players, Squid Game: The Challenge is the biggest, most brutal reality TV show yet.

With surgery only offering 50 to 80 per cent chance of success, much improved data is now in on an Australian-made treatment using patients' own cells, giving hope to people with complex tennis elbow cases.

The ABC thought gardening would be a safe subject to test out talkback radio. Then a caller asked about marijuana plants.

A woman tells of a desperate Melbourne roadside rescue as her colleague lay unconscious and she could not get through to emergency operators during the November 8 outage.

Here are six times clothes, and the people who wore or designed them, helped forge the story of our country — for better and worse.

Nehad Jerada says people love her baked pastries, they are flaky, savoury, and play an important part in educating people about what it means to be Palestinian.

Introduced by Australian Story presenter Leigh Sales

A man who stowed away beneath a B-double trailer instead of paying for a short taxi ride home is lucky to be alive after he ended up travelling nearly 400 kilometres on metal racks suspended barely a metre off the road.

Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, who was married to president Jimmy Carter for 77 years, dies.

Elly-May Barnes, the youngest daughter of rock legend Jimmy Barnes, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a toddler. Now the 34-year-old is a solo cabaret artist and disability advocate.  

George Griffin, 12, said he and his friends were "pretty scared" at first, but used their surf life saving training to save two teenage girls, and a mother and her three children, from the waves on Saturday — the second rescue by teens at Kiama within days.

These women have not lost their passion for travel and have found a way to create friendships while on the road without a partner.

While growing up in India, Shanul Sharma was teased by classmates for his high-pitched voice. After a brief stint in heavy metal, he's now using that voice to star in opera performances across the world.

While isolating with COVID-19 on board their boat, Holly and Saxon's resorted to trapping flies for entertainment.

Illustrator Shane Foley traded in his paramedic uniform to draw the costumed crusader, but one thing he won't give up is using pen and paper to bring the world's oldest comic character to life.

In Exquisite Corpse, award-winning Australian author Marija Peričić gives voice to the women caught up in a man's macabre obsession with a dead patient.

In a busy, urban environment, south-western snake-necked turtles are increasingly at risk, but researchers say the community has the power to help.

The northern NSW community of Laurieton is determined to refloat and restore a piece of their maritime history, with efforts underway to salvage a 60-year-old former pride of the fleet from the Camden Haven River.

An Australian family who managed to flee war-torn Gaza and return home, shares their story of survival, but found it easy adjusting to normal life.

In response to increasing censorship in the United States, pop star Pink is giving away 2,000 copies of books banned in Florida — the state that has cracked down hardest on public schools and libraries this year. 

In the wizarding world, Harry Potter is known as "the boy who lived". In reality, it's Daniel Radcliffe's main stunt double, David Holmes, who is lucky to be alive.

New data suggests many Australian shoppers are now treating snacks as luxury items, to combat rising grocery prices.

A group of former ACT chief ministers is urging the ACT government to include special signage for all of Canberra's suburbs – not just those named after ex-prime ministers.

There's been a flurry of excitement at the Australian Museum recently where the ancient artefacts of Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, have found a temporary new home.