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AFL legend Jim Stynes’ widow Sam has opened up about their marriage in an emotional TV interview. Jim died in March after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 45 years old and widely regarded as one of the nicest men in sport. Related: Andrew Ettingshausen – Why I cheated on my wife But Sam […]

Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s relationship with a former union official and fraudster came back to haunt her over the weekend with the revival of a 17-year-old union slush fund scandal involving Gillard’s former flame Bruce Wilson. Gillard fell for the alleged conman as an industrial lawyer and partner at law firm Slater and Gordon, where […]

New Zealand has lost its first female soldier in more than 40 years in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan. Medic Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, died yesterday when the vehicle she was travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb northwest of Do Abe. Corporal Luke Tamatea, 31, and Richard Harris, 21, were also […]

More than 50 years after women started taking the pill, scientists have announced they are on the cusp of developing a birth control pill for men. The breakthrough, which has been tested on mice, targets the protein that instructs sperm to mature. It only lasts while the drug is being taken, and there are no […]

Despite the tough times in media at the moment, The Australian Women’s Weekly has won another 245,000 readers in the past 12 months. This figure takes our total readership up to more than 2.4 million, an 11.3 percent year-on-year rise, according to Roy Morgan’s June 2012 survey. The Weekly has experience the highest growth of […]

Just four years after he was declared a national hero in Beijing, Steve Hooker has been branded a “disappointment” by his own boss. Athletics Australia President Rob Fildes has declared the pole vaulter the biggest frustration of the London Olympics, saying his failure to perform was disappointing no matter how you looked at it. Related: […]

They finished last and by a considerable margin, but Sarah Attar and Wojdan Shaherkhani got a standing ovation for being in London at all. Sarah, 19, and Wojdan, 16, are the first women to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympic Games. While their sporting achievements didn’t win them any medals — Sarah came last […]

It’s commonly heard spewing from the mouths of giggly Gen-Y’s, but the annoying acronym OMG was actually coined in 1917 by a British aristocrat. Celebrated naval officer Lord Fisher used the three-letter abbreviation in a wartime letter to Winston Churchill. The missive — which was penned in 1917 and published in Lord Fisher’s 1919 book […]

Four years ago, a little-known hurdler called Sally McLellan became an overnight sensation when footage of her celebrating after winning silver at the Beijing Olympics went viral. Sally was not expecting to place and her enthusiastic reaction to her medal — which was very nearly gold — endeared her to the nation. Last night, Sally […]

Basketball star Lauren Jackson will carry the Australian flag into the Olympic opening ceremony tonight, the first woman to do so in two decades. Lauren, 31, said she is “blown away” by the honour, and was surprised to win it over the likes of swimmer Leisel Jones, beach volleyballer Natalie Cook and cyclists Anna Meares […]