HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANBERRA

It's Canberra day, a time when we celebrate all the weird and interesting things about our capital and remind ourselves why it's even the capital in the first place.

There's parliament house. And roundabouts. Its streets features names like Bogan Place and Sanger Street.

Its firetrucks are lime green. It has an obscene amount of public holidays, 13 of them, in fact.

Today is one of those famous public holidays, Canberra Day.

At Parliament House there were big celebrations.

It’s about celebrating the city's official naming which happened on the 12th of March, 1913.

Canberra became our country's capital as a kind of compromise between Australia's biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne.

It was literally designed and built to be a capital city, and more than a 100 years on there's a lot to celebrate.

So, happy Canberra day, you fascinating city.

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THE WORLD’S OLDEST PERSON

From one special day to another now, let's meet the world's oldest living person!

This is Kane Tanaka. She's 116 years and 66 days old.

Kane lives in a nursing home in Fukuoka in south-west Japan and has just received her Guinness World Record certificate at this ceremony.

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WOMADELAIDE FESTIVAL WRAPS UP FOR ANOTHER YEAR

WOMADelaide's 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!

A big part of WOMAD is getting people involved in the art itself. This year, an artistic interactive dance act called the Colour of Time was one of the stand-outs. It’s based on India’s Holi festival.

A recycled cardboard castle was put together by local students and some artists from France.

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.

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AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM SETS A NATIONAL RECORD

The Aussie cricket team's just set a national record for the greatest ever run chase in a One Day international.

They needed a whopping 359 runs to win against India and they made it with 13 balls to spare!

It was a good day for Peter Handscomb, he scored his first ever century.

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CAR SNOW SCULPTURE

In the snowy US state of Nebraska, this policeman pulled over to investigate what this car was doing parked in the middle of the street.

But when he got close he realised it was actually just an elaborate, car shaped mound of snow.

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CRUFTS BEST IN SHOW DOG ANNOUNCED

This is Dylan the Villain, although he's about the furthest 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 Papillon (the French word for butterfly) because of his hairy, butterfly shaped ears.

Former Britain's Got Talent winner Ash Butler and her dog Sully won in the agility category for this impressive routine.

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RED PANDA CUBS SAY HELLO TO THE WORLD

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!

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