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The late superstar befriended the Ramirez family during his Australian tour. Amid all the bizarre claims about the singer, Billy Ramirez tells Jacqui Lang of the real man he knew as a friend. From the moment his idol Michael Jackson slid down a hotel banister to greet him, Billy Ramirez was in awe. Little did […]

After a happy family ‘honeymoon’ in Las Vegas and London, Simone is ready to give her womanising ex another chance. Phillip Koch reports Shane Warne and Simone Callahan are expected to return to Australia as husband and wife, having spent a fortnight “honeymooning” with their kids in Las Vegas and London. Their very public display […]

She’s dropped her married name and that famous smile’s back. Now the Aussie golden girl is partying away the pain of her recent marriage split. Sarah Blake reports. Just weeks since her shock break-up with husband Grant Kenny after 23 years of marriage, the former swim star was all smiles and in holiday mode as […]

As the popular television host’s marriage split gets ugly, police speak to her about the punch-up and friends reveal they believe the marriage had been rocky for years. Sonia Kruger was called by police after the punch-up between her husband and new boyfriend but no statement was taken because she did not see who started […]

For many years, the first thing I did when I came home was eat a passionfruit. When I was small, a passionfruit vine grew over our outdoor toilet, in the days before the last of the Brisbane suburbs were connected to the sewerage system. By the time I was in high school, our passionfruit vine […]

A 20-year study of monkeys in the US has found that reducing the kilojoule intake slowed the ageing process and increased their lifespan. The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center monitored 76 rhesus monkeys — 30 since 1989, and 46 since 1994 — to study what cutting their diet by 30 percent would do to them. […]

By the time your children reach Year 12, they will have spent nearly 14,500 hours at school (12 years of 40 weeks a year, five days a week, six hours a day), so it’s best to make sure their schoolyard is a stimulating environment, with flowers, grass, leaves and trees. Not only is gardening fun […]

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Jacko’s death has reopened old wounds for Heath Ledger’s family. His dad Kim talks to Natalee Fuhrmann in Perth. Kim Ledger’s grief for his son is with him every day, but the similarities between Heath’s overdose from prescription drugs and Michael Jackson’s death have left the family reeling. “On the day Michael died I spoke […]