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A few hundred years ago, you needed a fortune to fill your larder with spices. They were brought by sailing ship from the “spice islands”, and tasted of adventure and luxury. These days cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, etc, can be bought for a few dollars at the supermarket: tired, elderly spices months or, more likely, years […]

Just as too much booze and junk food can make your body sluggish, emotional baggage — in the form of negative thoughts, mental blocks and limiting self-beliefs — can clog up your mind. These three steps can help you to change: Do the opposite If something feels comfortable, it’s natural to keep doing it. But […]

Staying put in life is a bit like sitting in a boat that’s tied up: you might be afloat, but you’re not going anywhere — and you’re probably not having much fun, either. A routine is one step away from a rut. If you sense it’s time for a change, but you’re unsure, here’s how […]

For your health (and the planet’s), you might want to rethink what you drink out of. Pamela Allardice explains why. Chemical question-mark. Along with tin-can linings, hoses, paints, dentistry composites and plastic containers, some plastic bottles are made from polycarbonate (PC) plastic (No. 7 recycling code), which contains the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). BPA is a […]

The look of fear on Bec Hewitt’s face when she leaves the high-security Bahamas mansion she and Lleyton call home is warranted, Annette Witheridge discovers. When her tennis ace husband Lleyton Hewitt announced they were moving to the Bahamas, Bec probably expected to find a sizzling new social life among the rich and famous. If […]

Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth’s love affair with Miley Cyrus has left his girlfriend at home heartbroken, writes Jonica Bray. When Victorian teenager Laura Griffin saw her actor boyfriend of five years Liam Hemsworth passionately kissing the world’s most famous teenager, Miley Cyrus, on the set of The Last Song, she believed he was only doing […]

Fresh from being dumped by Bradley Cooper in favour of rival Renée Zellweger, an emotional Jen struggled to hold back tears amid a series of tense phone calls on the Manhattan set of her new movie The Bounty. “She honestly feels screwed over,” a close friend told Us Weekly magazine of Jen’s reaction to Bradley […]

Bashed backpacker David Keohane’s family were told to say goodbye. Glen Williams tells how he lived, thanks, they believe, to an Aussie nun. David Keohane is renowned for his compassion. A hard-working tiler, the Irishman gave much of his spare time to voluntary counselling for Lifeline. He was 29 ? in his prime ? when […]

Brian McFadden’s children have suffered at the hands of their drug-addicted mother for years, Josephine Agostino reports. Kerry Katona, the mother of Brian McFadden’s kids, is so addicted to cocaine she only sees them a few hours a week and has been “too wasted” to take them to school, her stepsister Pat Ferrier claims. Pat, […]

As Schapelle Corby’s mental health reaches a new low, Erin Craven reports on moves to bring her home. The campaign to bring Schapelle Corby home has gained new strength following revelations that her mental health has been in serious decline while serving out her 20-year sentence for drug smuggling in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan jail. Queensland […]