Loud music, whooshing coffee machines, clanging cutlery and raised voices fill the air in many restaurants. Professor Carl Hopkins discusses why noise can be so uncomfortable.

The papal conclave forms to start the selection process for a new pope on Wednesday and Cardinals from around the globe have been gathering at the Vatican.

Australia's incumbent PM Anthony Albanese re-won his seat in the 2025 Federal Election last night, ending a heated election which saw opposition leader Peter Dutton run a very "Trumpian" campaign.

During the Cold War the CIA managed to smuggle ten million books across the Iron Curtain. The banned titles included Hannah Arendt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, and Agatha Christie.

Black Ferns legend Portia Woodman-Wickliffe joins Jim to talk about what lured her out of retirement, and she also chooses her Best Song Eva.

Award-winning contemporary landscape artist Jude Fleming lives a six-hour drive from Sydney in Warren, population 1365.

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz.

How important were the UK local elections? Not very, you might suppose at first glance, but global media have covered them assiduously.

With less than one week to go before their election day, Canadians are voting early in record numbers - but what does this mean for pollsters and predictions?

Although Kiwi agency ReliefAid has been delivering aid to Syrian families since 2015, founder Mike Seawright had been prevented from entering the country under the dictatorial regime.