The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by Fairfax picture editors.
Newly released from Cooma prison,Oliver Curtis heads to the airport for a reunion with wife Roxy Jacenko.
In the Solomon Islands,people fear a return to chaos as the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) withdraws.
Visit the spectacular world of bugs and experience their super powers as the Melbourne Museum opens its Bug Lab:Little Bugs,Super Powers exhibit. Images by Daniel Pockett
Circus Oz returns to Melbourne with its first original production from new Artistic Director Rob Tannion. It promises enormous safety pins and clothes pegs props,and a Spanish violinist (acrobatically-speaking). Photographer Eddie Jim got in on the act at a full dress rehearsal for their show Model Citizens from 20 June - 16 July under the heated top at Birrarung Marr.
The National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra are celebrating World Giraffe Day today.