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"Hollywood is sorority racist" - the best Oscars 2016 quotes

Oscars 2016: Spotlight shocks as DiCaprio takes actor and Mad Max scorches competition

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Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins best actor Oscar for The Revenant

​After four previous acting nominations, the star of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s survival drama has finally won his first Academy award

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The $400,000-a-year New Zealand job with three months' holiday that no one wants

GPs surgery in town of Tokoroa in the North Island has been looking for a junior doctor for two years with no takers so far despite generous package

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Mr Babe: Japan launches style magazine for the larger man

Like many men his size, Norihito Kurashina dreads shopping for clothes. “The skinny jeans trend has done me no favours at all,” the 52-year-old magazine editor says, the lower buttons of his shirt straining a little as he shifts in his seat. “It’s really difficult to find anything that fits properly, so I often end up with clothes that I can just about squeeze into.”

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Oil price falls to 11-year low with global glut expected to deepen in 2016

The price of oil has fallen to its lowest level in 11 years as commodity markets responded to signs that the global glut of oil will deepen in 2016.

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Advocates split over NSW government's changes to cycling laws

Cycling advocates are split over NSW roads minister Duncan Gay’s changes, with disappointment in some quarters at the government’s punitive approach “sweetened” by minor improvements to safety.

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Yahoo's 'seemingly permanent decline': is this the end for the once-mighty firm?

Critics are charging once celebrated CEO Marissa Mayer with failing to pick a direction for the tech company, and questioning whether it can ever recover