At 3.00pm on an otherwise ordinary December day in 2008, Caroline Bernardi received the kind of shocking news no one is ever prepared to hear. She had just been diagnosed with cancer, and it was inoperable. The 44 year old marketing executive and mother of two had just spent the morning delivering Christmas presents to […]

A young man whose father stabbed his mother to death on a packed dance floor in Adelaide today speaks out against family violence to mark White Ribbon Day.

Afraid of losing his lady, big bloke Jason Jennings devised a DIY diet that saw him drop a life-saving 123kg! Jason Jennings knew he had to take radical action if he wanted to live happily ever after with his fiancee Rachel Boneham. At a morbidly obese 223kg – too big for plane and theatre seats […]

We were in our final year of high school, and my beautiful, highly intelligent and talented best friend, Fiona, had met the man of her dreams. She was over the moon in love with him and I could understand why. He was caring and thoughtful, tall and good-looking. He was serious eye candy and I […]

It's the simplest of daily tasks – packing a lunch box for your child. But for thousands of Sudanese refugees in Australia, this and many other routine parental chores are incomprehensible.

Sarah Williamson was inches from death when terrorists stormed a Nairobi shopping centre. With her eyes glued to a CCTV screen, Sarah Williamson’s heart was beating so hard she thought the killers prowling just metres away might be able to hear it. In front of the Victoria University student, a tiny monitor showed six men […]

Back home for his daughter’s sacred day, he’s barely noticed being dumped by Rhonda. In a perfectly pristine Balinese compound in Denpasar, a priestess dressed in white sits atop a mountain of offerings, ringing a tiny bell and chanting. Kadek Mahardika, aka Ketut from the AAMI TV ads, is about to have his baby daughter […]

The search for Madeline McCann has intensified with British police releasing two images of a man they urgently want to trace in the investigation of her disappearance. Two e-fit images of a man have been released based on separate witnesses who spotted him at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on the same evening […]

Renee’s goal was to lose 34kg by her wedding day. And now she’s hit that figure out of the park. When Renee Wolfe’s children were disappointed she couldn’t join them on the rides at a water park due to her 134kg frame, she laughed it off. Later at home, though, going over photos of the […]

Commercial surrogacy is illegal for those living in Queensland. But that wasn’t going to stop hopeful parents Kylie and Cameron Young from getting the family they desperately wanted. “I’m not bothered by the law,” says Kylie, 39, defiantly. “I’m not worried that we broke it.” Kylie and husband Cameron, also 39, tried for 11 years […]