SPOTIFY WRAPPED
What artist do you listen to the most? Well, people all around the world found that out today with Spotify and Apple Music dropping their end of year wraps! That's right, the end of the year is almost here, which means the stats are in on who and what we listened to this year! Spotify and Apple Music have released their end of year wraps, and we Aussies are big listeners! In fact, experts reckon we each listened to an average of 381 hours of music or radio this year, across a bunch of different genres! So who are our faves? Well, this time around, Miley Cyrus catapulted her way to most-streamed song in Australia and the world on Spotify with her track, Flowers. And it turns out The Wiggles still have quite a hold on us too! They were our most-streamed local artists and with bangers like this it's easy to see why. But the one who dominated this year was, you guessed it: Taylor Swift! Shocker, I know. With more than 26,000,000,000 streams worldwide on Spotify alone, she was the most streamed artist in the whole world across Spotify and Apple Music.

WILD WEATHER 
Huge storms have smashed the eastern states in the past couple of days! Hundreds of millimeters of rain caused flash floods in New South Wales. The storms are now moving south to Victoria where they're expected to bring down up to 200 millimeters of rain in some parts of the state in the coming days.

GIRLS ON TRACK
Now it's time to check out a new program that's all about inspiring girls to pursue a career in motorsport!

GLACIER KAYAKER
To a glacier in Norway! Where professional kayaker Aniol Serrasolses has just set a new world record. For the biggest ever recorded descent of a glacial waterfall. Flying over edge, falling 20 meters into the freezing cold water below.

VIRGIN FLIGHT
Now to New York, where a plane has just landed, after pulling off a pretty special flight. It's the first time a commercial airliner has flown a long haul flight running on Sustainable Aviation Fuel which can be made from a mix of things like cooking oil, feedstock, and even algae. It's also supposed to have lower emissions and as the name suggests, be more sustainable.

GINGERBREAD DISPLAY
And finally staying in New York, to a gingerbread artist putting the finishing touches on his latest festive creation. 800 houses, all baked, made and decorated by hand, make up this year's exhibit at Manhattan's Chelsea Market. Jon says he can easily get through 1800 kilos of candy, 6000 egg whites, and about 400 kilos of gingerbread putting together an exhibit like this!

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