Now to Love

Nicole Kidman has finally opened up about her unusual relationship with her older children, Isabella, 16, and Connor, 14, frankly revealing that the pair, with whom she hasn’t been photographed since 2007, have little time for her baby daughter, Sunday Rose. The star, who is out promoting her new movie musical, Nine, confesses that the […]

When her three children were murdered by her husband last year, Karen Bell thought she would never survive the agony. Now she tells Glen Williams how love and joy are helping mend the sorrows of the past. Karen Bell sits by a sunny window singing to her precious nine-week-old baby boy. She drinks him in, […]

As the nation prays for Krishna and Trishna, JOSEPHINE AGOSTINO looks at the special bond understood by only a handful of people around the world. While the 32-hour operation to separate Krishna and Trishna in a Melbourne hospital made headlines around the world last week, another set of conjoined twins were embarking on a life-changing […]

On the eve of her 60th birthday, Anna Wintour, fashion’s imperious ice queen, seems to be coming in from the cold, writes Sharon Krum. For 21 years, Anna Wintour has been famous for her ice-queen reputation. She’s been called Vogue’s “feted dominatrix”, a dragon, a bitch — and probably the most inventive nickname, “Nuclear Wintour”. […]

It’s the news we’ve all been waiting to hear: chocolatiers in Spain have invented a chocolate that can help you lose weight.. The chocolate is called Lola and it contains ingredients designed to trick your body into thinking you are full and therefore restrict overeating, the UK’s Daily Mail reported. On display in Madrid for […]

It’s official: glasses are the hottest fashion accessory you can wear this summer, and we aren’t talking about sunglasses. That’s right, according to Project Runway Australia‘s style guru, Henry Roth, glasses are cool and happen to be a must-have piece for the summer season (even if you don’t need them). The self-confessed nerd, who has […]

Clive Owen shoots from the heart rather than a pistol in the new Scott Hicks film,The Boys Are Back, an adaptation of Simon Carr’s memoirThe Boys Are Back in Town(2001), which looks at the challenges men face as parents. Apparently this film has been eight years in the making, although Hicks and Owen were involved […]

Summer is at our doorstep and we’re all starting to enjoy more time outdoors in the sunshine. But even though the sun’s ultraviolet rays on our skin help us produce vitamin D in our bodies, recent studies have found that Australians are mildly deficient. Unlike other key nutrients, there are few dietary sources of vitamin […]

Around 25 per cent of Australian adults will, at some time in their lives, suffer from a diagnosable mental health problem, most prominently depression or anxiety, including phobias. And as many of these people will be parents, unfortunately some of these behaviours are bound to be passed-onto their children. “Maybe someone can’t go into lifts; […]