Could it be your incessant hunger for content that "broke" the news? Comedian Tom Ballard thinks so, but it's OK — he has a solution.

If testosterone was flammable, you'd probably need to hose down the screen. But unlike many other contemporary action movies, Only The Brave doesn't come with a side order of or irony or self-deprecation.

Academy Award winner and Australian acting icon Geoffrey Rush denies allegations of "inappropriate behaviour" while working on a play with the Sydney Theatre Company, saying information has been withheld from him.

The attempt by a group calling itself Project Veritas to trick The Washington Post into reporting manufactured sex assault allegations reads like a Hollywood script, but shows there's a war going on in which journalists' reputations are collateral damage, writes Micheline Maynard.

There appears to be a strong thirst for learning after a sold-out event in Melbourne, with a series of 20 talks in 10 different bars, which participants say is a new way for people to engage and tell stories in an informal setting.