In her new retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author "liked being rude to people, vicariously".

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A destructive blaze north of Sydney rages for days. Tim Elliott follows the investigation to find out if the inferno was deliberately lit.

TV chef and paleo diet champion Pete Evans eschews dairy and grains - but also sunscreen and fluoride - and his unusual advice goes out to 1.5 million Facebook followers.

In World War II London, a four-year-old boy's mother disappears without a trace. Years late, not even knowing her name, he begins to search for her.

Anne Aly is the first Muslim woman to be elected to federal parliament, a global counter-terrorism expert – and she’s destined to become a leading voice in public life.

As Schoolies week kicks off, emergency specialists are using hard-core methods to deter adolescents from risk-taking behaviour,

While the Test team is in disarray, James Sutherland is driving unprecedented growth in the game.

The daughter of a former thoroughbred breeder confronts the brutal reality faced by racehorses who've outlived their usefulness.

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.

From revving sessions to poetry readings, occasional nudity to mullet-cutting, the annual Deni Ute Muster celebrates a slice of ’Straya.

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

Lessons learnt from a day watching the (fantastically biased) American cable news networks.

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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