Anne Lu

Queensland MP Peter Dowling’s mistress has enjoyed spending the taxpayers’ money. The lover of the disgraced Australian politician revealed that she enjoyed luxury that other people paid when she was with him.

McDonald’s in the U.S. is having a conundrum of Big Mac proportion these days, and neither the franchisers nor the employees are lovin’ it. But while staff workers of the American burger chain are fighting for higher hourly wage, their Australian counterparts are not crying the same complaints. They are already earning almost $15 an hour, and they are about to earn more.

The boys from New Zealand’s Crusaders now have a career to fall back. The C-City Brothers – composed of red-and-black players Andy Ellis, Israel Dagg, Robbie Fuean, Telusa Veainu, and Willie Heinz – have topped three iTunes charts in the country just a day after releasing their debut single “Never Walk Away.”

An X Factor Australia contestant has not only impressed judges Ronan Keating, Redfoo, and Dannii Minogue, but also brought tears to the eyes of the viewers Tuesday night. Ofisa Toleafoa, or simply Tee, came to the country from New Zealand after his mother turned her back on him when she found out he was gay.

The woman who was videotaped racially abusing a schoolboy aboard a Sydney bus apologised for her actions. Susan Bernobich pleaded guilty to using offensive language in a public place on Tuesday, saying had “so much remorse” over the incident that she would go on TV to apologise publicly.

Hamilton police are looking for information on a suspect in the "cowardly" attack of a pizza delivery driver. A 30-year-old Pizza Hut delivery guy was attacked while delivering an order outside a vacant Melville house on Sunday night.

Australia’s first day of election campaigning has become a disaster for Liberal Party’s Jaymes Diaz. The candidate for the Greenway district in western Sydney was unable to name his own party’s Coalition policy during a television interview, and his gaffe is going viral online.

The twists in Big Brother Australia never end. After exposing Drade’s (Drew and Jade) faux marriage, BB shocked his guests even more by bringing in three more housemates at the price of two.

Australian actor Liam Hemsworth knows a thing or two about sex scenes. Miley Cyrus’ fiancé has learned that no matter how steamy and serious a sex scene is, there’s always room for laughter, at least if the laughs are aimed at him.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will be busy recording the music for The Hobbit to play their own concerts. New Zealand’s national orchestra has axed a series of classical concerts because they will be recording the soundtrack of the film’s second instalment.

From rugby players to boyband members? Following their disappointing semi-final loss, five members of the Crusaders have teamed up to form their own boyband, the C-City Brothers.

Big Brother Australia has had a jam-packed weekend with the first ever Showdown for 2013 taking place and the faux marriage that is Drade being outed. The housemates were all pumped up and ready for the explosive Showdown premiere, but only one of them claimed victory.

The new Doctor Who has been revealed. Peter Capaldi was officially unveiled to replace exiting Doctor Matt Smith as the 12th incarnation of the time travelling humanoid alien on the live BBC special “Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor” on Sunday night.

Sexist and racist, that’s how the U.S. DVD cover of the Australian film The Sapphires has been described. Anchor Bay, the American distributor of the award-winning musical film, released the image for its DVD box set, in which Irish actor Chris O’Dowd is featured predominantly, while his Aboriginal female co-stars are blue-washed in the background.

Prince George has a birth certificate, and his dad, Prince William, was the one who signed it. Clarence House, the official residence of William and wife Kate Middleton, has tweeted a scanned copy of the Prince of Cambridge’s birth certificate.

Soundwave music festival founder AJ Maddah is the most powerful person in the Australian music industry. The festival promoter, who also handles Harvest music festival, has dethroned Mushroom Group chairman Michael Gudinski to top the Australasian Music Industry Directory’s Power 50 list.

UK broadcaster BBC has apologised Thursday after it accidentally showed an image of Prince William with a penis drawn on his head. The oversight occurred when the morning show BBC Breakfast aired a clip of a music video of the singing comedy group Barbershopera.

New Zealand’s Queenstown, Christchurch, and Auckland are three of the world’s friendliest cities. Over 46,000 Conde Nast Traveller readers have voted for the Kiwi cities to be one of the Friendliest Cities in the World.

New Zealand is hoping to attract more big-budget film and TV productions in the country by lowering the qualifying budget thresholds for productions. Minister for Economic Development Steven Joyce and Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage Christopher Finlayson announced the changes to the Large Budget Screen Product Grant on Wednesday.

Ariel Castro was unremorseful as he was handed his sentence for kidnapping, torturing, and raping Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus for more than a decade. The infamous Cleveland, Ohio abductor has been handed a sentence of life in prison plus 1,000 years with no possibility of parole.

Justin Bieber has made one faux pas after another, but for Chicago Blackhawks fans, nothing he did is more sacrilegious than stepping on the team's logo on their locker room. The 19-year-old Canadian singer irked hockey fans when he stood on the sacred chief logo that no one ever stands on, and now they're out to deliver payback.

Davina Murray has been found guilty of smuggling contrabands to a convicted murderer and rapist in jail. The Auckland lawyer was accused of giving cigarettes, a lighter, and a mobile phone to Liam Reid, her alleged lover, in Mt Eden Prison on Oct 7, 2011.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has accepted an undisclosed "substantial" charity donation from the law firm that leaked her new book's true authorship. The bestselling novelist sued a partner at Russells law firm and his friend for revealing that Robert Galbraith is her pseudonym.

Angelina Jolie and Prince George are both hot topics these days, with one being named the highest paid actress in Hollywood recently and the other simply being born in this world. Any news about them seems to generate high interest among readers. So it's unsurprising that they are both being used as bait in a malware attack through fake news articles.

The Big Day Out 2014 lineup has been announced, Blur joining as one of the headliners. The travelling festival, which is set to kick off in Auckland on January 17, will also see guaranteed crowd pleasers Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, and Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion).

Prince George would have been proud to call her his grandmother. Nearly 16 years after Princess Diana died, she graces the cover of 'Vanity Fair' magazine for its September issue.

Russian lawmaker Vitaly Milonov has said that the country will arrest gay athletes and tourists at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014. The politician, a co-sponsor of the "non-traditional relationships" bill in the country, said their government should not decide when to enforce the law.

Her son died on Monday night, and she just learned about it on Facebook. Kathy Bellamy of Sydney was "devastated" when she learned on the social media Web site that her son Jesse Smith, 18, was left lying on the road in a pool of blood after a horrific car accident.

“Big Brother Australia” has just officiated a faux marriage between strangers, and the housemates are not buying it! Drew and Jade were complete strangers but that didn’t stop Big Brother from telling them to act as husband and wife and fool their housemates.