Leonie Helm is a Newsweek Life Reporter and is based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on all things life, from abolishing the monarchy to travel to aesthetic medicine. Leonie joined Newsweek in ...

An adorable orphaned koala joey took a big step in independence, dropping her stuffed teddy to try a brief moment of climbing on a scratching post at a koala rescue center. Footage posted by the ...

When Steve Lamplough heard a commotion outside his south-west Victorian home, the last thing he expected to see was a joey koala riding his dog like a racehorse.

Dec. 2 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Australia were summoned to he home of a woman who found something unexpected in the branches of her Christmas tree: a koala. The Adelaide and Hills Koala Rescue said ...

Like a lot of young people, 11-year-old Izzy Bee has a special bond with animals. Unlike a lot of young people, she shares it with one of the planet’s most cuddly: koalas. “It’s hard to explain,” she ...