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Iconic screenwriter and journalist Nora Ephron died yesterday aged 71. Nora, who wrote When Harry met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, passed away after a battle with pneumonia, brought on by acute myeloid leukaemia. She was born in New York in 1941, the daughter of a Broadway playwright and a Hollywood screenwriter. Nora started working […]

The Humane Society has stripped a man of his bravery award after The Australian Women’s Weekly revealed he had been jailed for beating his wife. During a series of attacks, Paul Francis McCuskey kicked his partner Jeannie Blackburn in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye. […]

A seven-year-old girl has woken from a coma after listening to her favourite Adele song on the radio, just minutes after doctors told her parents to say goodbye to their daughter. Charlotte Neve suffered a brain haemorrhage in her sleep in April. She was taken to Leeds Hospital in the UK where she underwent surgery […]

Nobody on the train would give my 84-year-old father a seat. Would you?

Benjamin Mee’s life has been made into a Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon — but the true story is no fairy tale. Here, Benjamin discusses what it’s really like to live at a zoo and how he coped with the devastating loss of his wife. When Benjamin moved his young family into their very own […]

Quentin Bryce has called on the Royal Humane Society to strip a bravery award from a jailed Black Saturday fire fighter who kicked his partner in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye. The Governor-General, a patron of the Royal Humane Society, wrote to the society […]

Schapelle Corby is looking forward to ‘the sand between her toes” and a “cleansing swim” at her favourite beach when she returns home to Australia. Corby’s plea for clemency was approved by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday and her family is hopeful she could be back home by August. A letter confirming the clemency […]

Schapelle Corby has been granted clemency by the Indonesian government and could be free within three months. The 34-year-old could be released from Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Jail as early as August, the Daily Telegraph reports. Schapelle will apparently receive a letter approving the clemency later today. The clemency will see Schapelle’s sentence slashed by five […]

Robin Gibb, one of the three brothers in the Bee Gees has died in London at age 62. Gibb’s family announced in a statement on Sunday that: “Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery”. Gibb was admitted into hospital in October last year for abdominal pains. He subsequently had […]

Michelle Obama is shunning Oprah Winfrey because she hates “fat people”, according to a controversial new book. The sensational claims appear in The Amateur, a new book about Barack Obama’s presidency written by Edward Klein, the former editor-in-chief of New York Times Magazine. Klein says Michelle avoids Oprah’s phone calls and refused to let her […]