The AFL community and its many loyal supporters are in shock following the untimely passing of Port Adelaide player John McCarthy. The team’s end-of-season trip, attended by 10 of Port’s finest players, ended in tragedy as McCarthy was found dead yesterday after an apparent fall from a Las Vegas hotel. Though circumstances of his death […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have embarked on their first royal tour of Asia, due to land in Singapore this afternoon. Prince William and Catherine will kick off a nine-day tour of South East Asia and the South Pacific as part of celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond Jubilee. Harry who? Loved up Will […]

Once a forgotten city in the jungles of northern Laos, Luang Prabang is back on the world stage - its gilded temples and fine food dazzling a new generation of travellers.

A 45-year-old UK woman believed to be the world’s most prolific surrogate mother is pregnant with her thirteenth baby and plans to have even more. Carole Horlock has told how she is ready to give the baby away to an Italian couple, and already plans to help another childless couple by carrying their child in […]

Jacqueline Freney was eight years old when she watched Australian swimmer Siobhan Paton win six gold medals at the Sydney Paralympics and decided she wanted to do the same. Last night, she surpassed that goal, winning her seventh gold in London and becoming Australia’s most successful Paralympian at a single Games. Jacqueline, 20, blitzed the […]

A blonde beautician who claimed to have had a “drunken fumble” with a naked Prince Harry in Las Vegas has been jailed for fraud. Carrie Reichert sold her story of a 20-minute “kiss and grope” with a “totally wasted” Harry to the UK’s Daily Mirror. The sordid tale did not impress Clarence House, which released […]

As New York Fashion Week begins, a young model has revealed the horrifying extremes she and her colleagues go to in order to stay thin. Russian Kira Dikhtyar, 24, told Fox News that the impossibly-thin bodies strutting down the catwalks are the result of a strict regime of cigarettes, laxatives, appetite suppressants, drugs and injections […]

Our paralympic champions are dominating in the London 2012 Games.

ACP magazines, publisher of The Australian Women’s Weekly will come under new ownership as Nine Entertainment Co confirmed an agreement to sell Australia’s largest magazine publisher to leading European media group Bauer. ACP will break away from Nine Entertainment Co to join the German based international publishing house, a family-owned company publishing about 400 magazines […]

World number 1 Victoria Azarenka was playing a blistering match on court, but all eyes were on Pippa Middleton at the US Open yesterday. The royal bridesmaid’s famous figure was very much on display in a tight-fitting colour block dress, attracting a lot of attention from the crowd. Related: Private Pippa’s publishing debut Pippa, 28, […]