Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Your daily kids news podcast.

Parliament takes on betting ads; monkey business in the Scottish Highlands; some picture-perfect animals; and the Milky Way’s ancient feeding frenzy 

Australia is moving to put more distance between sport and gambling.

Luka the macaque fancied a Scottish adventure(opens in new tab), escaping his wildlife park and wandering kilometres into the Highlands.

Smile for the camera!(opens in new tab) More than 800 photos have captured the beautiful, bizarre and downright photogenic residents of British and Irish zoos and aquariums.

Our Milky Way has quite the appetite! Astronomers have uncovered evidence of an enormous ancient galactic collision(opens in new tab) involving the brilliantly named Low-energy-Kraken-Heracles.

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