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A screen adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize winner, Disgrace could easily have gone horribly wrong. Fortunately, creative partners, Australians Steve Jacobs and Anna-Maria Monticelli have delivered a finely nuanced film that closely reflects the intelligence and subtlety of the novel. John Malkovich gives a suitably malevolent turn as somewhat dissolute literature professor David Lurie […]

A question often asked by psychologists, educators and curious minds alike. The Weekly's financial expert, Virginia Graham, poses it from a financial point of view.

Devastated after her unsuccessful attempt to adopt a second child from Malawi, Madonna is turning to another African country in her search for a sibling for little David Banda. The singer’s application to adopt a young Malawian girl was rejected by the country’s high court earlier this year, but now she’s looking at adoption centres […]

I got messed around by men pretty badly when I was in my early twenties, and the repercussions of this were that for most of my late twenties I, myself, was not very nice to the men I used to meet through friends, at parties, pubs. I found myself being hostile in order to keep […]

With hundreds of Australians now diagnosed with the virus, and panic building, we reveal what it’s really like to be infected with the much-feared disease. Stephanie and Jimmy Dickson found themselves at the centre of the swine flu scare when their kids were among the first diagnosed with the disease in Australia. They were confined […]

The dream for the sporting world’s golden couple was over long ago … we reveal why Lisa had to walk away. When Lisa Curry and Grant Kenny last week announced their separation after 23 years of marriage, with Lisa moving out of the family home, their devoted fans were shocked. But while the Australian public […]

The First Lady’s trainer reveals to Woman’s Day the program that helped her to drop four dress sizes. Kevin Rudd‘s better half Therese Rein is fast becoming Australia’s first lady of health and fitness after dropping an incredible 25kg in six months. The businesswoman and mother-of-three has spent almost every day this year working out […]

Following dramatic scenes as Schapelle Corby was suddenly forced to leave hospital and return to jail, her sister Mercedes and mother Rosleigh reveal to Phillip Koch they fear she may end her own life. Having barricaded herself in a hospital toilet, Schapelle Corby‘s mental state reached a new low last week. Distressed and clutching a […]

The Hewitt clan are relocating to a tropical tax haven, leaving Bec more isolated than ever. Angela Mollard investigates. Bec Hewitt has to say goodbye to Australia and start a new life thousands of kilometres away from her family and friends. After three years of dragging her family around the world following her husband Lleyton […]

Newly married Sam Ciaravolo, hot frontrunner in hit TV show MasterChef, has found himself at the centre of controversy after appearing on the show with an obvious lovebite on his neck – despite contestants supposedly being isolated from their loved ones. Melbourne boy Sam, 24, who insists he is no love cheat, set tongues wagging […]