We find out about a festival that's just kicked off in North East Arnhem Land, Aussie firefighters back their bags for California, NASA sets out on it's hottest mission to date, and a gang of pups that found themselves stranded on an island.

Coles decides to push ahead with its bag ban after all, a maths whizz-kid grows up to be a maths whizz-grown-up, strange new rules in China that are changing people's post-death plans, an Aussie space enthusiast touches down after an intergalactic journey, and an argument about dogs that got seriously weird.

Coles back-pedals on a plastic-free promise, the MS Readathon kicks off, a pop star pops in to serenade a sick fan, and a shark named Miss Helen goes on an unexpected adventure.

A big mystery... keeps being mysterious, scientists try to figure out why penguin numbers are plummeting, a stray dog finishes a half marathon (and it just may have saved his life!), and a woman takes a company to court over their spurious ginger claims.

Meet the sisters who are used to super early wake-ups on the farm, what happened with all those by-elections over the weekend, an experiment that has scientists raising their eyebrows, and a fellow who wriggled his way to a weird world record.

A island in Vanuatu evacuates (again!), why the moon will be looking very appealing to vampires tonight, all the things you can do to say thanks to a tree this weekend, and the zebra that just... wasn't quite right.

Some big changes in our media as Nine and Fairfax join forces, an exciting discovery as the search for life on Mars goes on, yet another weird incident at the Tour de France, and the world's best babysitter managing her job like a boss.

Some crazy antics unfold at the Tour De France, a Sydney museum shows us how not to throw a fundraiser, the groovy lil system that gets the leftovers from a cafe coffee growing the avo for your toast, a couple of hundred elephants receive an eviction notice, and a massive rescue effort to save a little toy bunny from a smelly garbage grave.

Massive fires rip through Greece while neighbouring countries offer their help, uniform rules change for girls at NSW public schools, some ways to stress less on the national day of chilling out, and redheads unite in a march to celebrate their recessive ranga gene.

The UN wants to know what you think about your rights, whale sharks turn out to be quite a bit more whale-like than we first thought, a teenager lends a hand in a daring rescue operation and an Aussie whose workout regime is definitely more hectic than yours.