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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 […]

As Seal, Joel et al were warming up their vocal chords for The Voice’s live show on Monday night the Twitterati were warming up their thumbs, perhaps unaware that they were about to join one of the most successful social media campaigns in Australian history. Tweets boasting the show’s hash tag (#TheVoiceAU) were already starting […]

Barack Obama has become the first US president to openly support gay marriage. In an interview broadcast on US TV network ABC yesterday afternoon, Obama said that after careful consideration, he had decided to speak out in support of gay rights. In pictures: Barack Obama’s girls “Over the course of several years as I have […]

The pressure to be thin has claimed another young model’s life, with British teen covergirl Bethaney Wallace dying in her sleep after a battle with anorexia. Bethaney, 19, died of suspected heart failure on April 18 after her weight plummeted to just 38kg. The beautiful teen from Newmarket, Suffolk, was 12 when she started modelling […]

On Boxing Day 2011, celebrity chef Matt Golinski lost his wife and three daughters when a fire devastated their family home. Matt survived the fire, but sustained third degree burns to 40 percent of his body. He was unconscious for weeks and only recently learned of his family’s fate. Now, Matt’s colleagues and friends — […]