Five-time Grammy award winner Kelly Rowland feels like she is finally finding her place in the music world, thanks to the success of her latest hit, ‘When Love Takes Over’.

Sydney Mardi Gras went out with a bang, as some of the biggest names in popular music came out to support of one of the world’s largest gay parties. More than 18,000 partygoers danced the night away to extravagant acts.

Thousands of people lavishly decorated in various states of undress danced and partied their way through Sydney’s streets, in Australia’s annual Mardi Gras Parade. Derek Henkle covered the parade and filed this report.

It’s carnival time of year and after Rio and Venice, its Sydney’s turn to take centre stage this weekend. The event brings out hundreds of thousands of onlookers and generates some twenty seven million US dollars in business for the city. Derek Henkle is in Sydney and filed this report.

In the first full test of its anti-terrorism laws, an Australian court sentenced five men accused of the country’s largest terror plot to lengthy prison terms. Derek Henkle is in Sydney and filed this report.

Nearly a year after the peak of the global financial crisis, an economic stimulus program that Australia says was key in abating its recession, is getting attention and praise. Derek Henkle is in Sydney, Australia and filed this report.