Tom Cruise hasn't been single since 1983 and we bet he's not about to start now. Here are our top tips for his next bride.

The federal government has cut its inter-country adoption agreement with Ethiopia, one of the most popular programs for Australians and the only one to allow single women to adopt. Prospective parents who have been waiting up to five years for a child were told of the closure yesterday. Related: Paul Howes – My gut-wrenching adoption […]

The government’s inaugural Positive Body Image Awards were announced today with teen magazine Dolly taking out the top award. The Minister for Youth Peter Garrett awarded the winners at an event today recognising organisations in the fashion, media and entertainment and advertising industries taking steps to promote positive body image messages to young people, in […]

A US company has released an anti-cheating wedding ring that brands wearers with the words “I’m married” even after they take it off. The titanium band — on sale for $550 at TheCheeky.com — is reverse-engraved so that when the ring is removed, the words are impressed onto the skin … for a short time […]

Bryce Corbett discovers there's nothing like a Thai island getaway with the wife (and no kids) to reinvigorate a relationship.

Albert of Adelaide by Howard L. Anderson, Allen & Unwin, $26.99. Animal Farm meets The Magic Pudding with a little bit of Ned Kelly charisma in this delightful and surprising adult tale set in the Australian desert. Our protagonist is a duck-billed platypus who has escaped from the Adelaide zoo to try to discover the […]

Elizabeth Hurley and Shane Warne have four children between them so it's perhaps not surprising they aren't planning any more.

Most of us swear we'll never talk to our ex again but former supermodel Christie Brinkley has made it official, signing a contract banning her former husband from speaking to her.

Iconic screenwriter and journalist Nora Ephron died yesterday aged 71. Nora, who wrote When Harry met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, passed away after a battle with pneumonia, brought on by acute myeloid leukaemia. She was born in New York in 1941, the daughter of a Broadway playwright and a Hollywood screenwriter. Nora started working […]

The beauty queen wife. The successful husband. And the three sweet little girls, whose lives will never be the same after their father was accused of murdering their mother. Queensland is gripped by the case of Allison Baden-Clay, the young mother whose body was found on the side of a creek 10 days after her […]