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Women around the globe will always find ways to make themselves more beautiful. Kelly Baker reveals beauty tricks from all corners of the world — and you don’t need to travel to try them. All over the world, women have long created beauty treatments with their own hands — hair conditioner crafted from crushed hibiscus […]

When a Perth family set out on a two-year round-the-world trip on a catamaran, they didn’t count on being shipwrecked on a remote island in the Pacific. Sue Williams recounts their adventures. Lashed by nine-metre waves and brutal winds in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Jennifer Barrie and her husband, Andrew, fought desperately to […]

Trust what the doctor says, we are told, so when is it okay to get a second, third or even fourth opinion? Professor Kerryn Phelps explains. The question of second opinions comes up all the time in medical practice. The type you may be most familiar with are the referrals to specialists in a particular […]

They’re smart and sexy, with talent in spades. The Weekly talks to some of our favourite Aussie blokes about what they value most and the women they love. Andrew Rochford, 7pm Project panellist, doctor, 31 Who is the woman you most admire? My wife. She’s really quite inspiring. She’s capable, she’s ambitious, she’s got a […]

Tara Brown says she is a lucky woman. Not only has she created a stellar career as one of TV’s most successful reporters, but she’s managed to keep the best part until last — becoming a mother again in her 40s. As a 60 Minutes reporter, Tara Brown has faced illness, fatigue and all manner […]

Twenty years ago, Kit Kats were sold in two-piece packs weighing 20g, today a Kit Kat weighs 78g. Welcome to our supersize world. The result: we’re also supersizing ourselves. Fancy a biscuit? And how about a coffee to go with it? Twenty years ago, that would have meant a biscuit you could have fitted whole […]

There were many men in the running to be one of Australia’s Men of the Moment, as judged by the Women’s Weekly: Malcolm Turnbull, with his leather jacket bad-boy look; Tony Abbott, the ironman; Rob Oakeshott, the rugged country lad. But the Weekly likes to be at the cutting edge, so we did a straw […]

The former star of Ugly Betty, America Ferrera, has tied the knot in a glamorous New York wedding with her long-time boyfriend Ryan Piers Williams. The ceremony, which took place on Monday, was held in the stunning home of her Ugly Betty co-star Vanessa Williams, Ferrera’s rep told Us magazine. And it seems the actress […]

The Weekly's Editor-in-chief Helen McCabe on why the magazine is campaigning to change Australia's adoption laws.

One mother recalls the overwhelming joy of successfully adopting a baby girl. It was the call I’d been waiting years to receive. “You have a daughter, she’s 11 months old and her name is Hai Yan,” the adoption caseworker said. I recorded the few available details — weight, height, number of teeth (four) — and […]