Exercise works for your abs, so why not your face? Unlike your body muscles, your 57 facial muscles are directly attached to your skin. When facial muscles lose their tone, the skin starts to sag and lose its lustre. Toning the muscles of your neck and face will increase oxygen circulation, speed up lymphatic drainage […]

It’s a conundrum for every woman who wants her pretty daughter to grow into a confident woman: should she tell her she’s beautiful, or should she ignore her beauty and compliment her other, more lasting gifts — her intelligence, her creativity, or her sense of humour? According to Lisa Bloom, author of Think: Straight Talk […]

Zara Phillips married Mike Tindall in an elegant ceremony in Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirk yesterday. Zara, 30, wore a full-length ivory silk gown designed by Queen Elizabeth’s favourite couturier Stewart Parvin. She accessorised the outfit with a silk tulle veil, Jimmy Choo shoes and a diamond tiara borrowed from her mother. Mike, the English rugby captain, […]

These AFL players are stars on the field, but what do they do when the final siren sounds? Michael Sheather discovers their other passions. Cameron Ling, 30, Geelong Cats It’s the sunrise that gets Cameron. Sitting atop his surfboard in the early morning darkness waiting for the first wave of the day, he never fails […]

It started, as all good dinner conversations do, with a throwaway comment by my companion about a curious dish her mother used to prepare. “She used to take tinned mandarins.” She paused for dramatic effect. And then, with rising excitement, I finished her sentence. “And mix them with sour cream?! I know it! I lived […]

He is best known as a comedian, but now Anh Do has cemented his place in Australia’s literary scene, taking out the top prize at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Do’s novel The Happiest Refugee was named book of the year at Monday night’s award ceremony in Melbourne. The book explores his family’s journey to […]

Amy Winehouse’s death, after a long struggle with alcohol and drugs, means she joins a group of troubled musicians who died at the age of 27. Known as the ’27 Club’, this group of influential musicians includes Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, as well as many lesser known musicians, who all died in […]

Prince William has given Kate Middleton his mother Princess Diana’s favourite earrings. William presented Kate with Diana’s beloved engagement ring last November, and has now given her the matching diamond and sapphire earrings. “Now they’re married, William wanted her to have some of his mother’s favourite pieces,” a courtier told the Sunday Mirror newspaper. In […]

If you’re putting off going to the gym because you still fit into size 12 clothes, dust off your running shoes — the average size 12 garment fits women who are medically obese. Australian fashion houses have expanded the measurements of the average size 12 item of clothing so it fits women with a waistline […]

We may live in a country where our version of a ‘cold’ winter is usually warmer than springtime in Paris, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need (or want) a great coat to rug up in while we (mildly) freeze on nights out, or on the way to work in the morning. The three key […]