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The federal government has cut its inter-country adoption agreement with Ethiopia, one of the most popular programs for Australians and the only one to allow single women to adopt. Prospective parents who have been waiting up to five years for a child were told of the closure yesterday. Related: Paul Howes – My gut-wrenching adoption […]

The government’s inaugural Positive Body Image Awards were announced today with teen magazine Dolly taking out the top award. The Minister for Youth Peter Garrett awarded the winners at an event today recognising organisations in the fashion, media and entertainment and advertising industries taking steps to promote positive body image messages to young people, in […]

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 […]

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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 — […]

It has never been easy to be a teenage girl. But it has never been harder than it is today. Young women have always felt insecure about the way they look and their place in the world. But when you throw modern-day pressures into the mix — 10-year-olds pouting on the cover of Vogue, perverts […]

A Black Saturday fire-fighter who kicked his former partner in the head so hard it blinded her in the left eye will keep his Royal Humane Society Certificate of Merit, despite the trauma caused to his victim and the feelings of his fellow fire-fighters. Paul Francis McCuskey, 41, of Reefton, in rural Victoria — who […]

During the 2010 election, the leader’s debate was rescheduled to avoid a clash with reality TV’s night of nights, the MasterChef final. It was a win for those with balanced political and pop-cultural tastes. But today, no such courtesy was given by the Labor party who held their leadership ballot at the same time as […]

Gordon Wood, the man accused of pushing model Caroline Byrne off a cliff almost 20 years ago, has been acquitted of her murder. Wood has spent more than three years in jail after a jury found he had killed Caroline, his girlfriend, by throwing her off Sydney’s notorious suicide spot, The Gap, in 1995. Related: […]

A Black Saturday fire-fighter who kicked his former partner in the head so hard it snapped her optic nerve and blinded her in one eye has been given a bravery award by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia. In a ceremony attended by Victorian Governor Alex Curnov and other dignitaries at Melbourne Town Hall on […]

Crown Princess Mary has been praised for her grace under pressure but even she wasn’t sure what to do when she caught the husband of a visiting dignitary staring at her cleavage. Mary was at a state dinner in Copenhagen on Wednesday when she turned to her left just in time to see Pentti Arajarvi […]

Naomi Watts has signed on to play Princess Diana in a new film about the tragic royal. Naomi, 43, will star in upcoming biopic Caught In Flight, which focuses on the last two years of Diana’s life. Film critics have expressed doubt about Naomi’s casting in the project, but the actress says she is up […]

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If you think you’re working at full capacity and still not getting everything done, take time to reassess your work habits. A few simple steps will soon have you leaving on time with a clear head and sense of achievement. The secret? Work smarter, not harder. 1. Make a list “The humble to-do list often […]

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Dazzling diamonds and designer gowns gave way to dashing and debonair Hollywood hunks at the 80th Oscar celebrations this year. The ’80s saw a redefining of what was acceptable as ‘black tie’ as actors started to push the boundaries and experiment with decorative waistcoats or lush fabrics like silk and velvet on the red carpet. […]

The Aussies have taken a bite out of the Big Apple this week with our largest department store, Myer, making a big splash in downtown Manhattan. It’s certainly no secret that the Australian flavour is all the rage in New York at the moment…just put a G’day in front of anything and you’ll be the […]

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