Her Instagram presence is too perfect for some, but this beauty writer, entrepreneur and novelist has reasons for focusing on the "shiny, fun stuff".

She fell in love with pro-wrestling on TV as a teenager. Now she's at it six days a week.

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Infidelity has become big business: but can marriage survive one partner's urge to "feel alive again"?

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A whiff of something unsavoury brings a mother and daughter closer together. But first there are taboos to air, crisp linen to buy and exercises to do.

University students in Texas now have the right to carry concealed firearms on campus, a trend that has the police deeply worried.

The young Queen Victoria was nervous before her 1840 wedding to Albert, but what she described later was quite at odds with her era’s killjoy puritanism.

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Wilderness, waterfalls, wildlife, wonder: the pristine Kimberley region is not only vast, but largely undiscovered.

James Dack clawed his way from a housing commission terrace to become Australia's top real estate agent. Why did he quit?

Di Morrissey seems to have it all: a big house, doting partner, a legion of fans. Well, everything but a literary award …

Best mates Oliver Curtis and John Hartman figured out how to make it rain cash. Until the law caught up with them.

Victorian country boy turned Vikings star Travis Fimmel's talent for understatement is earning him big roles in Hollywood.

A Young Talent Time winner at the age of nine, Danielle de Niese has gone on to become one of the world’s leading opera sopranos.

We’re entering salad season: try pairing this asparagus number with a homemade beef pie.

A little bit of misery goes a long way – especially when Marlon Williams sings. It hurts, but in a good way.

Australian novelist Hannah Kent's intense historical research has paid off handsomely.

Local and international record labels are embracing this singer/songwriter's pacy rap.

Michael Zavros loves luxury, beauty and expensive objects. But is the painter’s glamorous lifestyle quite what it seems on canvas?

More than five years after Japan's devastating tsunami, some are still desperately looking for their loved ones.