For NPR's Word of the Week: Things are getting spicy. We explain how a word referring to cinnamon and pepper turned less literal by the 19th century.

The First Nations actor, who appeared in “Dances With Wolves” and other Hollywood blockbusters, remained active in Canadian film, theater and television.

A near decade of private Facebook posts, exclusively obtained by Crikey, Telegram messages and unreported Instagram comments show that Freeman posted more about his hatred of police than anything else.

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

The Tasmanian salmon industry is hoping to get approval within weeks to use another antibiotic to treat farmed salmon, as it continues to grapple with an endemic bacterial disease.

The international cinema expert was beloved for his film reviews, particularly on television with Margaret Pomeranz * David Stratton’s closing credits: ‘I’ve done the best I could’ David Stratton, the revered Australian film critic and beloved co-host of television programs The Movie Show and At The Movies with fellow critic Margaret Pomeranz, has died aged 85. Born in the English town of Trowbridge in 1939, Stratton was sent to live with his grandmother in Hampshire during the second world war. An avid filmgoer, she took Stratton to the cinema almost every day, which changed his life. In the 2017 documentary David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, Stratton said he watched “at least one” film he hadn’t seen every day, and had seen more than 25,000 films in his life. Continue reading...