Hey, what's up, guys? How are you going?
My name is Ruby and let's have a look at what's making news today.
First up, happy birthday to Canberra!
It's Canberra Day -
a day when we celebrate
all of the weird and wonderful things about our capital,
and remind ourselves why it's even the capital in the first place.
MAN: There's Parliament House and roundabouts.
Its streets feature names like Bogan Place and Sanger Street.
Its fire trucks are lime green.
It has an obscene amount of public holidays - 13 of them, in fact.
And there's statues and balloons. Why are there so many balloons?!
Canberra:
Yeah.
Today is one of those famous public holidays - Canberra Day.
And at Parliament House there were big celebrations.
Or at least big balloons.
It's a dog watching a dog!
Canberra Day is about celebrating the city's official naming,
which happened on March 12, 1913.
Canberra became our country's capital
as a kind of compromise between Australia's biggest cities -
Sydney and Melbourne.
So it was literally designed and built to be a capital city.
And more than 100 years on, there's a lot to celebrate.
Now it's a duck watching the dog!
From one special day to another now.
Let's meet the world's oldest living person.
This is Kane Tanaka.
She is 116 years and 66 days old.
Kane lives in a nursing home in Fukuoka in south-west Japan,
and her secret diet for a long life
is lollies and fizzy drinks, apparently.
The Aussie cricket team has just set a national record
for the greatest ever run chase at a one-day international.
They needed a whopping 359 runs to win against India,
and they made it with 13 balls to spare.
WOMADelaide is wrapping up for another year.
It's the biggest world music festival in the Southern Hemisphere,
with 500 artists from more than 30 countries performing.
It's really fun because there's lots of activities.
It's got really good food.
We can listen to all the music around us.
There is definitely a lot going on at WOMADelaide.
There's food from all over,
heaps of art, like these big flags and whatever these creepy things are.
Plus there's heaps of interactive games, dancers and exhibitions.
This thing here is called The Colour of Time.
It's based on India's Holi festival.
(CHEERING)
All I know is, I can't really breathe.
I think I may have broken the camera. There's too much dust on it.
But, man, it's fun.
This recycled cardboard castle thing
was put together by local students and some artists from France.
It's made out of 1,050ish boxes,
and it'll at the end weigh about 1,024 kilograms.
In case you're wondering, instead of having to climb the rickety thing,
it's actually built from the bottom up,
with everyone pitching in to lift it up every couple of minutes.
It's for WOMAD and it's for fun and it's for bringing people together,
and it's for art.
Finally, it wouldn't be WOMAD without the music.
I even managed to score an interview with one of the artists.
It didn't go great.
Now, mate, some people have been calling your performances wooden.
What do you reckon?
Rude!
The only thing more popular than the music here is us, apparently.
Hi, BtN! Hi, BtN!
Hi, BtN!
It's been a big day.
Need to go home and have a wash.
I'll catch you next time.
And to cap off the day,
we're taking a look at some things that aren't quite what they seem.
In the snowy US state of Nebraska,
this policeman pulled over to investigate
what a car was doing parked in the middle of street.
But when he got close...
MAN: What in the heck?
..he realised it was actually just an elaborate car-shaped mound of snow.
Some people make snowmen.
Not the people in the north west - they make snow cars.
This is Dylan the villain,
although he's about the furthest thing from a bad guy you could get.
He's been named top dog at the world's biggest dog show, Crufts.
He's a black, white and brown papillion -
the French word for butterfly -
because of his hairy butterfly-shaped ears.
COMMENTATOR: Is she going to win again? Ashleigh Butler.
Former Britain's Got Talent winner Ash Butler
and her dog Sully
won in the agility category for this impressive routine.
They've got five seconds to go.
He's gonna be nip and tuck...
He's gonna be so close!
They have done it. They have done it.
And finally, three little panda cubs at Taronga Zoo
are ready to say hello to the world.
If you're wondering why they look a bit different,
it's because they're actually red pandas.
They're also endangered, so it's some good news for their species too.
That is it for today. I'll catch you again tomorrow.
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