A new university course is helping students remap Sydney’s suburbs according to the senses of smell, touch, sound, taste and sight. It’s aimed at helping city planners design spaces that people feel good in. They don’t recommend the CBD on a Sunday morning…

A Parisian undertaker is aiming to popularise a greener way of conducting funeral proceedings in the City of Lights with her bicycle hearse. No word on whether she charges extra for services in the famous hill-top Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Montmartre.

An already world record-busting US$1.6 billion US Powerball jackpot has risen to US$1.9 billion ($2.94 billion) after no one claimed to have last weekend’s winning numbers. The jackpot has failed to find a winner for the last 3 months, with the chance of winning being an unlikely one in 292.2 million. You’ve got more chance of getting a teenager to wash the dishes…