A Japanese woman has been honoured as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records. She took time out from studying maths to celebrate by eating chocolate

Australian girls and women have a new figure of hope and inspiration, with the unveiling of a Fearless Girl statue in time for International Women’s Day

Formerly conjoined twins Nima and Dawa Pelden are flying home to Bhutan today after their successful surgery in Australia to allow them to live separate lives

After an 8-4 vote by Hobart councillors, the city is set to become Australia’s first to ban single-use plastics including straws, sauce packets and cups

Sydney’s new international airport is being named after Nancy-Bird Walton, Australia’s first female pilot, known as the “Angel of the Outback”

The world’s smallest baby boy has gone home from hospital, six months after being born weighing only 268g, one-thirteenth the weight of an average Australian baby

Michelle Lee has become the first Australian woman to row across an ocean after a 5000km solo journey across the Atlantic that took 68 days, 12 hours and 49 minutes

Every two weeks a language becomes extinct. To try to preserve indigenous languages, the United Nations observes International Mother Language Day every year on February 21

West Indian cricketer Shannon Gabriel has been banned for 4 matches for on-field insult to England captain Joe Root. But it’s Root’s reaction that has gained worldwide praise

The cost of removing graffiti is so high that governments are spending up big trying to teach kids not to do it in the first place

Townsville’s mayor has urged the city’s residents to “hang tough” as the Army and emergency services personnel work hard to keep everyone safe after record rain in Queensland

She’s only 16 years old, yet this girl has already broken a world long-hair record, all because she had a bad haircut when she was six years old

  Jimmy Nelson has created an extraordinary photographic record of some of the world’s last indigenous peoples living traditionally in a bid to to save these cultures

A seemingly small act of kindness could be a big help for someone who is struggling. One barber’s kindness is changing the lives of homeless people in his community

Precious is a little girl in Zimbabwe, who had to walk for hours every day to get water for her family, until Australians paid for a well to be dug to provide clean water

Doctors will perform separation surgery on conjoined twins Nima and Dawa on Friday. Their spirits were lifted when they received hundreds of letters of support from Kids News readers

Kids News is inviting you to write a letter of support and hope to conjoined twins Nima and Dawa ahead of their surgery. We will deliver the letters to the twins’ mum to keep and show the girls

Two police officers have performed a daring rescue to pull a struggling kangaroo from the surf. They even performed chest compressions to save its life. Watch the amazing video

Mrs Collings is 102 and Mr Collings is 103 and this week they’re celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. We look at what the world was like in 1938

A 10-year-old boy’s response to learning about Australia’s drought was to find a way to help. In five weeks, he has raised more than one million dollars. What are your ideas for helping people?

Winning isn’t always everything. As this 10-year-old boy found, being kind to your opponents can make you feel good and make lots of people happy and proud

Experts fear the loss of resilient middle children in shrinking Australian families will be harmful to society. Find out why

Australia is growing faster than ever before, with one baby born every 102 seconds. This week we reach 25 million, much earlier than expected

Nine Australians were key to the success of the long and dangerous rescue of the Thai boys’ soccer team from a flooded cave. Today their heroism was honoured

When she was 13, Belinda Bowey wasn’t allowed to keep playing footy alongside her twin brother. But the setback didn’t stop her becoming a pioneer of Aussie rules

A dog can be a young reader’s best friend, listening patiently and not judging if their reading is not yet perfect. Would you enjoy reading to a dog?

The on-again, off-again meeting between US and North Korean leaders finally happened in Singapore today, possibly leading to the end of a long war

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre today offered the Hobart City Council the use of the city’s traditional Aboriginal name to mark National Reconciliation Week

Onlookers watched in horror as a toddler dangled from a fifth-floor balcony. Now his rescuer – nicknamed Paris Spider-Man – has become the story

Kids are great at homework if they are left to do it alone. If you think you can be trusted too, tell the grown-ups in your life there’s a study from Finland to back you up!

The new Duke and Duchess of Sussex married in a fun, modern ceremony before family and friends. Outside, the streets of Windsor became a day-long party scene in celebration of the couple’s love

Finding homeless people somewhere to stay is just the first stage of an ambitious new plan for Adelaide.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised to end the war and give up nuclear weapons at a historic meeting. Now the world is waiting to see if he can keep his promises for peace.

The birth of Prince Louis has royal souvenir collectors buying up big. But one Australian woman is likely to buy more than anyone. Could she be the world’s biggest royal fan?

Japan's Nabi Tajima, the world’s oldest person, has died at the grand age of 117. But she’s not the only Japanese person living longer than most — take a look at the reasons why

Wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley shows amazing spirit and exactly why he was chosen as Australia’s flagbearer as he responds to his Games snub

Students rescued after Queensland floodwaters trapped them for almost a week on school camp

The world’s tallest man has met the world’s shortest woman in the shadows of the pyramids in Egypt. See the remarkable images

While most six-year-olds are busy playing dress-ups and watching cartoons, one kindergarten boy is raking in millions and millions of dollars by simply reviewing toys online.

Grade two entrepreneur Angus Walters is seeing his kooky Croc Candy being snapped up around the Northern Territory

Millions will fall silent tomorrow for Remembrance Day to commemorate those who fought and died in World War I. VIDEO