Just like today, weight loss regimes were big business in the 1960s. From downing all the booze you could drink to guzzling shots of oil before every meal, here are some of the craziest retro dieting tips. All the alcohol you can drink: One of the best-selling diet books of all time was the The […]

A devastating killer influenza outbreak is heading to Australia where it will claim lives, doctors have warned. The deadly H3N2 “super flu” wrought havoc in the US in December and January, killing 20 children and causing vaccine shortages across the country. The virus is expected to arrive in Australia within weeks and Australian Medical Association […]

A Swedish modelling agency has been accused of staking out a treatment centre for eating disorders scouting for anorexic ‘talent’. Director of the Stockholm clinic Anna-Maria af Sandeberg said head hunters had approached ill patients, one wheelchair bound, hoping to recruit them. Kirstie Clements: Thin is in because designers demand it “They were outside the […]

Rolf Harris has been named in a UK newspaper as the Australian arrested last month over an alleged sexual abuse scandal. The Sun reports the 83-year-old entertainer was taken into police custody and questioned over decades-old sex abuse allegations. Detectives first raided Harris’ home in Berkshire, England, on November 24 last year. He was not […]

Some celebrity couples love get married so much they do it again and again and again.

Vogue has caused controversy again for publishing “blackface” pictures of a white model. This time it’s the Netherlands edition of the fashion bible that is in hot water after it ran an editorial featuring pale-skinned model Querelle Jansen with her face “blacked-up” and an afro wig on. The photographic spread — which was styled by […]

The Queen and Prince Philip were among 2300 guests who gathered in St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday for the funeral of Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Two of the most powerful women in history, Queen Elizabeth II and Baroness Thatcher didn’t always get along — the Queen very witty in private and Thatcher […]

Suri Cruise is only seven years old but she is already one of the most famous people on the planet. Here are some adorable pictures from her first seven years in the spotlight.

As part of its 80th Birthday celebrations, Australia’s biggest-selling magazine, The Australian Women’s Weekly has launched a nationwide search to uncover the best stories in the land — and the first-stop on its story-hunting tour is Dubbo. If you are a woman based in the Dubbo region and you have a story you think is […]

She's had a tough few months but things appear to be looking up for Charlotte Dawson, who has bagged a gorgeous new toyboy 24 years her junior.