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Former French first lady Carla Bruni has proudly worn the titles of model, pop star, socialite, and bohemian, but don’t call her a feminist. The 44-year-old former presidential consort has told French Vogue she doesn’t consider herself a feminist, and doesn’t see the need for feminism today. According to her, all the work was done […]

One of Australia’s favourite authors, Bryce Courtenay, has died at the age of 79. The South African-born novelist passed away in his Canberra home at 11pm on Thursday with his family by his side, ending a long battle with stomach cancer. The best-selling author was best known for his much-loved novel The Power of One, […]

For three long hours on the afternoon of August 3, 2011, police officer Karen Lowden sat with Madeleine Pulver, neither of them sure whether the device strapped to the schoolgirl’s neck would explode. Here, Karen tells her story. When Karen Lowden took her two-year-old son, Lachlan, to his playgroup in early August, she was given […]

Relief has finally come for Sydney girl Madeleine Pulver and her family today as the man who strapped a fake collar bomb around her neck holding her hostage in the family’s Mosman home was jailed for at least ten years. Paul Douglas Peters was given a maximum sentence of 13 years and six months in […]

Xitclalli “Chilli” Vasquez is nine years old. She lives in Texas, loves her family, enjoys school, and hopes to one day become a doctor. Last year, Chilli’s hopes were all but dashed when a young drunk driver hit her mother’s car as they were driving from the local shopping mall where she had her hair […]

Bronwyn and Scott McNamara, a Sunshine Coast couple were all set to become Mum and Dad to an adopted Ethiopian child, but in June it was announced that the Ethiopia Program, which has facilitated the adoption of more than 600 Ethiopian children over 20 years, would close. “This has been a tough decision, but a […]

Six days, five states, one territory, more than 30 events plus additional meet and greets, more than a thousand handshakes-a-piece shaken and hundreds of personal conversations; such is the stuff of this incredible royal tour. The Weekly has followed the Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall every step of their Australian journey and […]

Sydney cleaner, Belma Wilson has lost everything in a fire that destroyed her home and left her husband with burns to 30 per cent of his body. Ms Wilson, 49, told The Australian Women’s Weekly she was distraught but very lucky to be staying in a friend’s tiny studio apartment with her three children. “We […]

Beyoncé made it famous, but her hit song will be forever linked with President Barack Obama because it was the single ladies of America who cemented his role at the White House for another four years. For months political commentators have predicted that the 2012 US Election would be won on the economy, but it […]

They were fashionably late but the crowd didn’t seem to care. In fact as the minutes ticked by more and more locals and blow-ins lined Bridge Street in the historic town of Richmond in Tasmania until the crowd was several deep. The town only has a population of around 1600 but it looked like more […]