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Just like today, weight loss regimes were big business in the 1960s. From downing all the booze you could drink to guzzling shots of oil before every meal, here are some of the craziest retro dieting tips. All the alcohol you can drink: One of the best-selling diet books of all time was the The […]

A devastating killer influenza outbreak is heading to Australia where it will claim lives, doctors have warned. The deadly H3N2 “super flu” wrought havoc in the US in December and January, killing 20 children and causing vaccine shortages across the country. The virus is expected to arrive in Australia within weeks and Australian Medical Association […]

A Swedish modelling agency has been accused of staking out a treatment centre for eating disorders scouting for anorexic ‘talent’. Director of the Stockholm clinic Anna-Maria af Sandeberg said head hunters had approached ill patients, one wheelchair bound, hoping to recruit them. Kirstie Clements: Thin is in because designers demand it “They were outside the […]

Rolf Harris has been named in a UK newspaper as the Australian arrested last month over an alleged sexual abuse scandal. The Sun reports the 83-year-old entertainer was taken into police custody and questioned over decades-old sex abuse allegations. Detectives first raided Harris’ home in Berkshire, England, on November 24 last year. He was not […]

Jennifer Aniston has given some insight into her relationship with fiance Justin Theroux, saying he is a bit of a prankster. Talking on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the 44-year-old actress revealed that her future husband often tries to scare her and pops out of nowhere when she least expects it. “He calls it trickery,” she […]

A new study suggests that fainting may run in the family and, for some, just one gene may be the cause of this phenomenon. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Austin Health reviewed medical records of 44 families with a history of fainting. This included six families who have a large number of affected […]

Vogue has caused controversy again for publishing “blackface” pictures of a white model. This time it’s the Netherlands edition of the fashion bible that is in hot water after it ran an editorial featuring pale-skinned model Querelle Jansen with her face “blacked-up” and an afro wig on. The photographic spread — which was styled by […]

Some celebrity couples love get married so much they do it again and again and again.

Many women say they feel isolated and lonely following the birth of their first child, but a new study has revealed that a baby actually improves your social life. The UK research found that women make an average of nine new friends upon the birth of their first baby, and in the first year this […]

The Queen and Prince Philip were among 2300 guests who gathered in St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday for the funeral of Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Two of the most powerful women in history, Queen Elizabeth II and Baroness Thatcher didn’t always get along — the Queen very witty in private and Thatcher […]