The pressure to be thin has claimed another young model’s life, with British teen covergirl Bethaney Wallace dying in her sleep after a battle with anorexia. Bethaney, 19, died of suspected heart failure on April 18 after her weight plummeted to just 38kg. The beautiful teen from Newmarket, Suffolk, was 12 when she started modelling […]

The Voice has captivated Australia, with ratings topping 4 million last night. Take a look back at some of the best moments from the show so far in this video gallery.

A year after their own spectacular wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton walked up the aisle again on Saturday at the nuptials of their friends. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled to St Andrews Church in Wingfield, England, to attend the wedding of close friends Hannah Gillingham and Robert Carter. In pictures: William and […]

The debate over circumcision is heating up, with new evidence showing it might prevent disease, writes Jordan Baker. Professor Andrew Li circumcises men. About half his patients seek the procedure for medical reasons (infections, pain) and the rest for “personal” — mostly cosmetic — ones. Of the latter, many are marched to the surgery by […]

Akeer Chut-Deng was just seven when the lions and hyenas came looking for blood. Until then, the tribal and sectarian violence that swept the rest of the Sudan during the late 1980s had bypassed the tiny village where she lived with her mother and family. “But then the war came, and suddenly there were bodies […]

Author Helen Brown recalls the day her doctor told her she would need a mastectomy in this extract from her new book.

Autumn is the gentle time in Australia. Spring can suddenly present you with a frost that withers the new shoots and tomatoes, but autumn is mostly blue skies. Autumn rain is usually gentle, the great thunder heads of summer gone. As I write this the persimmons are ripe, big fat orange fruit, and the leaves […]

When it comes to money talk, sometimes it's just easier to bury our heads in the sand and hope for the best. Take charge now by asking yourself the following questions.

The Honourable Phryne Fisher is a glamorous, gutsy, and gloriously wealthy detective in 1920s Australia.

Aaron Woolcott works in the family's small publishing business writing beginner's guides to just about everything, but when his wife Dorothy is killed, he doesn't have a clue where to start.