Infidelity ends thousands of marriages every year, but a new book is suggesting cheating could help couples stay together. It is an opinion sure to prove controversial, but bestselling British author Catherine Hakim has written a self-help book explaining how having an affair could make your relationship stronger. An excerpt from the paperback — entitled […]

The Sunshine State’s capital has come of age. Now seen as Australia’s new hip getaway city, here are 15 of Mike Dolan’s favourite ways to spend a great long weekend in Brisbane.

He’s already a prince, but William became a knight in shining armour for a drowning 16-year-old girl last week. The Duke of Cambridge was part of a team of Royal Air Force search and rescue pilots who plucked the struggling girl from the dangerous waters off the coast of Wales on Thursday. In pictures: William […]

Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s relationship with a former union official and fraudster came back to haunt her over the weekend with the revival of a 17-year-old union slush fund scandal involving Gillard’s former flame Bruce Wilson. Gillard fell for the alleged conman as an industrial lawyer and partner at law firm Slater and Gordon, where […]

New Zealand has lost its first female soldier in more than 40 years in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan. Medic Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, died yesterday when the vehicle she was travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb northwest of Do Abe. Corporal Luke Tamatea, 31, and Richard Harris, 21, were also […]

Barbie has taught generations of little girls that they can be anything from an astronaut to president, but now the famous doll is preparing to inspire male fans too. Mattel is releasing the first ever “Drag Queen Barbie”, modelled after New York based fashion designer Phillipe Blond, himself a cross-dresser. Related: See Barbie’s proportions drawn […]

More than 50 years after women started taking the pill, scientists have announced they are on the cusp of developing a birth control pill for men. The breakthrough, which has been tested on mice, targets the protein that instructs sperm to mature. It only lasts while the drug is being taken, and there are no […]

The Duke of Edinburgh was rushed to hospital yesterday after his recent bladder infection returned. An ambulance took Philip, 91, from Balmoral to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, a distance of 80km. In pictures: Prince Philip’s best gaffes Doctors there confirmed the Duke was suffering from a recurrence of the bladder infection which saw him hospitalised during […]

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are putting their problems behind them to escort their daughter Suri to her first day of school.

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 […]