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: […]

It was Australia’s finest female athletes who led the Gold rush in London, while Stephanie Rice won a heart. They formed an unbreakable bond when they beat the odds to grab Silver on the same day in Beijing four years ago. And now, on one unforgettable day in London four years later, hurdler Sally Pearson […]

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 […]

They hold the Guinness World Record for the smallest siblings in the world and now Bridgette ‘Bri’ and Brad Jordan have chalked up another big achievement — their own TV show. The pair, who live in Centralia, Illinois, suffer from Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II, a rare illness that affects just 200,000 people in […]

When conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel were born, doctors didn’t expect them to survive through the night. Now, 22 years later, the twins have certainly proved them wrong. The girls have recently graduated from university, are about to travel to Europe with friends and are on the hunt for their first job. They are […]

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 […]

The swimming stalwart was intent on proving her critics wrong in London. Powering towards the finish, her fingernails painted a shade of blue as vivid as the water around her, Olympics veteran Leisel Jones knew she had more to prove than ever in what has been a truly extraordinary career. As an intensely personal debate […]

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 […]

When three young girls went missing, rescue authorities didn’t expect the one to find them would be a tiny Chihuahua named Belle. The girls from Georgia in the US, eight-year-olds Carlie Parga and Victoria Baker along with Carlie’s five-year-old sister Lacey, were taking their dog Lucy for a walk down their street when Lucy picked […]