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If you have a smartphone or expect Santa to put one underneath the Christmas tree for you this year, check out any one of these eights apps perfect for the holidays.

The Rolling Stones will play an outdoor concert at Adelaide Oval as part of their upcoming Australian Tour.

REVIEW | Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries Farwell Tour at the London Palladium is probably the furthest thing from a stage version of the best-selling novel Eat, Pray, Love.

INTERVIEW | Two years in the making, John Pilger's controversial new film Utopia reveals a shocking national secret behind the postcard image of the "lucky country". As it premiers in the UK, the award winning documentary filmmaker talks to Australian Times about the devastating inequalities suffered by the Aboriginal community.

Five of Australia’s most talented Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander creative practitioners have arrived in the UK to take part in the British Council’s annual ACCELERATE programme. High Commissioner Mike Rann welcomed them at a special event at the BT Tower.

If you are new to London, things might be a bit weird at first. But the clubbing scene should never confuse you. Go east for the cool kids, go south for the cooler kids and go city centre if you are a rich kid ready to have a good time.

Mammoth Mammoth, a heavy rock band from Melbourne are performing in London tonight at the Islington Academy.

Feathers, sequins, skin and Australia’s own Sharon Davis aka 'Bonnie Fox' will take to the stage in London this month for the World Burlesque Games, London

Almost 83,000 people are backing a Facebook campaign to make Highway to Hell the UK Christmas Number One to celebrate 40 years of AC/DC.

REVIEW | Written by Emma Deakin, and presented by Shaky Isles Theatre, Expectations is a game show where couples compete for life's biggest prize. It is currently playing at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington.

Australian Times have a special reader offer for you to see Expectations, a new play at the Pleasance Theatre by kiwi company, Shaky Isle Theatre.

INTERVIEW | Fiona Foley is raising awareness about the mistreatment, and plight of indigenous people in Australia through her controversial artworks, including Vexed a video presentation exploring the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal marriages, currently on display at EcoCentrix; Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

It seems classic Australian art is in vogue at the moment, as another John Glover landscape painting is to be displayed at the Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair.

Here is our list of five headline grabbing Australians who you look at, and question what the bloody hell were they thinking?

At the heart of the West End is the Queens Theatre, which is where you’ll find Australian Daniel Koek playing the lead role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.

You are cordially invited to the very first Bogan Bingo Shitty Disco at the Clapham Grand on the 8 November.

9 to 5 comes alive in BLAM! a new show at the Peacock Theatre where four office workers use their imagination and any available office equipment to create action packed adventures.

REVIEW | If Charles Darwin studied dance The Comedy of Change, a new work by Rambert Dance Company would be his finest discovery.

As part of Origins 2013 Australian born Maori dance artist Victoria Hunt embodies the spirit of a meeting house, which sheltered the people of Mount Tarawera during a volcanic eruption, in her performance Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka.

PHOTOS & REVIEW | The Cat Empire proved music really is the language of us all when they played an adrenalin pumping, feet stomping, hand raising concert at O2 Academy Brixton on 20 October 2013.

Here is our list of the 5 apps every Australian should download when they arrive in the UK. And no, Candy Crush is not on the list.

Soprano Deborah Cheetham, Australia’s only classically trained Australian Aboriginal opera singer, will perform in London as part of the Inside Out Festival, presenting excerpts from her opera Pecan Summer.

An Australian photographer, Justin Gilligan, has been commended in the 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, exhibited at London's Natural History Museum from 18 October 2013 until 23 March 2014.

Davey Lane lived every bedroom guitarist’s dream when he became the fourth member of his favourite band You Am I. GEORGE KATRALIS speaks with the renowned Australian guitarist about his debut solo EP The Good Borne of Bad Tymes.

Don't miss out on hilarious stand-up genius Jimeoin when he presents his new show 'Jimeoin - What?!' to the Apollo on Saturday 23 November 2013 with our special TWO FOR ONE reader offer.

INTERVIEW | Ahead of his first London exhibition at La Galleria in Pall Mall, renowned Australian artist Charles Billich tells Gareth Mohen it’s the people inhabiting this city, which he finds most interesting.

With new burger joints opening up on every London corner, SLABS - Steak, Lobster and Burgers - a family run restaurant in Marylebone stands out from the crowd, offering both burgers and other classic dishes, all made with seasonal ingredients.

WIN | Here is your chance to score free tickets to see The Cat Empire live at the O2 Academy Brixton this Sunday 20 October.

INTERVIEW | With a career spanning more than half a century, BARRY HUMPHRIES has been a godfather-like figure in the Australian entertainment scene, with his work leaving an undeniable impact on theatregoers, critics and fans the world over. KIEL EGGING sits down with the veteran entertainer to discover why some...

Triple J Unearthed band Ball Park Music are heading to London to test out their sound on the UK scene, with a gig at The Water Rats on Wednesday 23 October 2013.

The world’s largest beer festival has wrapped up for another year. If you couldn’t make it to Munich or haven’t yet had your fill of German ale, here’s our list of the top five London locations still celebrating Oktoberfest.

From postage stamps in China to the Vatican museum, Charles Billich's artwork can be seen all over the world. Now the renowned Australian artist is set to present his first UK exhibition.

Ancient history and artistic expression combine in Origins 2013, a cultural festival of artists and performers with deep roots, coming together to share ideas about the past, present and future.

REVIEW | Prepare to step far outside your comfort zone with Aussie composer Ben Frost's new opera The Wasp Factory, playing at Linbury Studio Theatre until 8 October.

First came the UK number one album, Dusk & Dawn and now Australian star saxophonist Amy Dickson has been named the Breakthrough Artist of the Year at this year’s Classic BRIT Awards.

Concert promoters are in talks to bring The Rolling Stones to Australia in 2014 for a string of stadium shows, and to open the redeveloped Adelaide Oval.

INTERVIEW |There’s been a lot of travel on the schedule of late for one of Australia’s biggest new indie pop-rock acts. Australian Times catches up with Brisbane’s Sheppard as they head off to New York and London where last year they discovered an audience for their infections party sound track...

INTERVIEW | Australian rock band Dead Letter Circus have set themselves up for a manic European tour, including nine nights of continuous shows. They kick off the UK leg tonight at Camden's Underworld.

One of Australia’s greatest living painters, John Olsen, is set to present his first ever exhibition of works in the UK at the Osborne Samuel gallery in Mayfair.

REVIEW | Claudia O’Doherty gives a highly energetic stand-up performance, full of inspirational messages in her new comedy show Pioneer at the Soho Theatre, on until Saturday 5 October 2013.

Ahead of their highly anticipated London show on October 20 at the O2 Academy in Brixton, we ask what’s your favourite Cat Empire song?

Three Australian singers are performing in the English Touring Opera’s upcoming season of Baroque Opera from Venice, opening in London on 28 September and running until 12 October.

Australia: Shifting Sands is a BFI retrospective of Australian cinema over the last two decades, tracing the emergence of Indigenous voices and stories captured on the big screen.

Aussie expats have the chance to explore some of London’s most interesting and exclusive venues, homes and architecture during the annual Open House London weekend in late September.

INTERVIEW | Fresh from Edinburgh Fringe, Australian comedian Claudia O’Doherty brings her latest off-beat show Pioneer to Soho Theatre.

Sarah Blasko has announced a new London show for 1 December 2013. Blasko will perform songs from her new album I Awake in an intimate show at the Islington Assembly Hall.

A group of pranksters in New Zealand have pulled off the ultimate gag, rigging up every tap in their mate’s house to run with beer instead of water.

Australian expats in London can still enjoy the fun and frivolity of the race that stops a nation with the 2013 Corporate Traveller Melbourne Cup celebrations on Tuesday 5 November at Australia House.

Australian expats in the UK are set to be treated to a truly unique musical experience this October, as London’s all-Australian chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru perform a special tribute concert at Islington’s famous Union Chapel in October

Actress Elizabeth Hurley appears to have confirmed reports she has split from Australian cricket great Shane Warne, apologising to her Twitter followers today for her silence and saying it was “too raw & personal to share right now.”