A fast food worker in the US has garnered international attention for his beautiful act of kindness.

The Weekly looks at how winning the Women of the Future award has grown Laura O'Reilly's organisation, Fighting Chance.

Meet Floyd-Henry's brand new brother and sister.

Dutch designer Christian Boer, a graduate of Utrecht Art Academy, has stepped up and created a dyslexic-friendly typeface to make reading easier for dyslexics like himself. Called Dyslexie the font, originally created as part of Boer’s 2008 university thesis, looks a lot like typical lettering, but is customised so that the variation between each character […]

The Weekly first met Floyd-Henry Morley and his parents earlier this year. Now this amazing family has some exciting news to share.

It's the beautiful moment that captures your heart. Seven week old Lachlan Lever hears for the first time.

He drew his inspiration from watching his twin brother Chris running and jumping and playing. And he was determined to do the same – so much so that earlier this year he managed to participate in a walk to the top of Mount Kosciuszko. “Right from the beginning, Nicholas was always ready to try anything […]

Mother of a girl with Down syndrome shoots her own back-to-school ads with a cast of children with disabilities.

Sunday night's 60 Minutes interview with David and Wendy Farnell has shocked and appalled many in the community, but the horrific circumstances of baby Gammy also provide us with the opportunity to combat the negative perceptions of people living with Down syndrome.

Compose, the research study based at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) hopes to increase language, learning and memory in people with Down syndrome through a medicine being tested around Australia. Professor Rhoshel Lenroot who is leading the study says the medicine they are testing is a compound called BTD-001. It was originally used to treat senile […]