Sweden’s Princess Madeleine has announced her engagement to her banker boyfriend Christopher O’Neill. Christopher — who is 38, British-born and US-based — proposed to Madeleine, 30, earlier this month but her father King Carl XVI Gustaf had to have the union approved by the Swedish government before the engagement could be announced. In pictures: Meet […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that men can’t do more than one thing at a time — but a new study has challenged this long held belief, proving men are actually better at multitasking than women. The controversial research — which will be published in prestigious US journal Psychological Science — claims that hormones […]

A Special Olympian with Down syndrome has penned a touching open letter protesting against the use of the word “retard” as an insult. US political commentator Ann Coulter provoked a barrage of criticism when she called Barack Obama a “retard” during the third presidential debate yesterday. “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind […]

Natalie Gruzlewski likes to keep her private life private, but it was clear something unusual was going on when the 35-year-old beauty starred in a fashion shoot for The Weekly in September. Half-way through the shoot, Natalie’s impossibly handsome boyfriend Jack Ray, 27, showed up for moral support, lots of hugs and more than a […]

As she publicly romances her sexy co-star, Lisa McCune's good-girl image is taking a battering. But will this make her Australia's most bankable star, asks Sue Smethurst.

Hugh Jackman was just eight years old when his mother packed her bags and moved back to England, leaving him and his four siblings alone with their bewildered father in Sydney’s northern suburbs. It’s been 35 years since that traumatic day, but Hugh, 44, still remembers how confused he was, and how he clung to […]

These twins are happy and as cute as a button — but there is no mother in their home. Instead, Huxley and Elijah, aged one, live with their gay dads, Michael Knowles, 31, and Jared Merrell, 28, in Brisbane. They were conceived with the help of a local egg donor and gestational surrogate Rachel Kunde, […]

In advance of their official tour of Australia, The Weekly’s Deputy Editor, Juliet Rieden, spent a week with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, and soon discovered there’s a lot more to their exhausting schedule of duties than shaking hands and drinking bubbly. One thing you could never say about the royal family is […]

The discovery of volumes of a war-time personal diary leads to the publication of one of the year's most surprising reads.

After years of being bullied and feeling bad about her body, 18-year-old Stella Boonshoft did not expect to be overwhelmed with positive feedback after an image she posted on her blog wearing only her underwear went viral last week. The photograph of the size 16 New York student and the impassioned blog post that accompanied […]