There was an ad on TV recently where a good-looking handyman is in a woman’s home doing some work. She is obviously flirting with him and won’t leave him alone and at the end of the ad the handyman says to the camera “you don’t want me hanging around your house when you’re not there […]

The doctor responsible for helping Nadya “Octomom” Suleman to give birth to 14 children has had his license revoked. Dr Michael Kamrava, who gave Nadya repeated in-vitro treatments, admitted to implanting the now 34-year-old mother with 12 embryos in 2008 — six times the normal number for women her age, the UK’s Daily Mail reported. […]

Ivan can’t help attracting attention, as well as cutlery and other metal objects! Like most active six-year-old boys, Ivan Stoiljkovic enjoys rollerblading and kicking a soccer ball around the garden. He’s also learning how to play the accordion. But young Ivan has a special quality that sets him apart from most little boys his age. […]

Three kids are enough for this online Lothario, who married his a 14-years-older US lover. He chose nappies and sleep deprivation over clubbing and hanging out with mates when he fell in love at 16 and became a dad soon after his 18th birthday. Now, three-and-a-half years later and father to three children, James Barry, […]

With quintuplets and a toddler to look after, sleep isn’t an option for these two Australian mums. Rosemary Nolan and Melissa Keevers’ Brisbane home looks much like any other house in their suburban street. There’s a swing in the front yard, shoes outside the front door, and you can hear the giggles of their 21-month […]

Guest editor of our real life stories Nine presenter Leila McKinnon has chosen this big-hearted story for us this issue. “This first story about Jill, Rita and Betty is about more than a wedding dress – it’s about family and love. One of the beautiful things that struck me was Betty being shocked to realise […]

Most parents are happy to hang their kids’ paintings on the fridge – but at the home of Jacquelyn Ngo in Sydney, the fridge is decidedly blank. Instead, the six-year-old’s colourful works of art can be found hanging in a gallery. The pint-sized painter, who first picked up a brush at two, is setting the […]

Food expert Lyndey Milan will always cherish her trip to Greece with her son. The badge pinned over the legendary big heart of foodie Lyndey Milan reads “good times”, yet her red eyes brimming with tears tell another story altogether. It is just a few short weeks since the Australian cooking institution lost her only […]

I need advice about my daughter who is 18 years old and won’t get up for work. She stays in bed all day and doesn’t get up until the late afternoon and then goes out all evening. I’m at my wits end about what to do. I’ve done pretty well for myself financially and my […]

The history of Pakistan's powerful Bhutto family is written in blood, with murder, assassination and mysterious death commonplace. A young member of this cursed clan, Fatima, born to privilege but now in constant peril, tells the shocking inside story to William Langley.