On the morning of August 15, 2021, Fatima Yousufi was lacing up her runners, getting ready for soccer training, when one of her teammates came banging on her door. “She was yelling, ‘Have you heard what’s happened? The Taliban has arrived’,” Fatima r

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Christened the “Garden Island”, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i’s northernmost island, is one of Mother Nature’s cleverly orchestrated creations. Flanked with forested crevices, jagged peaks and shores touched by chiffon-like waves, Kaua‘i is the definition of aloha

Fi Macrae always wanted to own a cafe. “I had it in my head that, by 30, I would have my own little cake shop where people could come and feel good and hang out and eat cake,” she says. For her, hospitality was about bringing people together. While w

Awards ceremonies can undo anyone, and frequently reduce movie stars to stumbling messes. This year Emma Stone cried as she collected her Oscar, explaining that her dress had split open at the back. A trembling Kieran Culkin started waffling about hi

On the first anniversary of Gina Lollobrigida’s death last year, a memorial mass was held in the village of Subiaco, 50 kilometres east of Rome, where the celebrated actress and beauty was born and now lies buried. Among the congregation were Gina’s

Maggie Beer is in the kitchen of her Barossa Valley home, making coffee. She’s just approved a batch of hot cross buns with her team in the adjacent office – it is Maundy Thursday – and there is a bustle of activity outside as handymen work on the pr

Flowers had a special place in this edition. Not only did our cover story reveal the meaning of different blooms, but royal reporter Anne Matheson revealed they were on the minds of newlyweds Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. After return

When Bill Clinton turned 50 he was in a relationship with a 22-yearold White House intern called Monica Lewinsky. After two sexual encounters in the private study of the Oval Office – where she serviced his needs while he took phone calls from congre

In 1660, in the ribald court of King Charles II, two publicly hated women got together to reclaim their reputations. The first, the Duchess of York, Anne Hyde, had been effectively cancelled by the highborn gentry for a litany of alleged social crime

Aboundary is a limit that we set between another person and ourselves. It can be helpful to think of it as an invisible fence that surrounds and protects us. A boundary helps us to understand where we end and others begin, and it helps us to know wha

360,000 Australians have coeliac disease, but four out of five don’t know it, according to research estimates by Coeliac Australia. Left undiagnosed, it can lead to nutrient deficiencies, osteoporosis and infertility. Symptoms to look out for include

We all want to minimise food waste but it’s hard to come up with creative ways to use leftover bits. The Saveful app (saveful.com) finds recipes based on what you have at hand, offers hacks to make ingredients more flavourful as well as tracking your

Growing up in Sierra Leone, I’d watch my mother and aunties make food and drinks in their colourful clothes and beautiful head wraps. They’d ask me to beat the chilli or test if there was enough salt in the sauce. I learned to cook from them through

Wearing deep green with a miniature portrait of her husband pinned to her dress, Queen Mary of Denmark proudly wore the Emerald Crown Jewels for the first time in the official gala portrait with King Frederick. With the couple wearing the Order of th

Quick and easy to prepare, McKenzie’s French Style Lentils have a rich, deep flavour and hold their shape well after cooking. They require no soaking and are a great addition to salads, or to make soups, patties and casseroles heartier. Lentils are

As the boys of Newington College approached its sandstone entrance on the first day of school this year, they were greeted by an unusual sight. Roughly 25 adults with placards were milling about in the shadow of the school’s emblematic wyvern – a for

After many wonderful years as a sub-editor, feature writer and columnist for The Australian Women’s Weekly (also known as the world’s best women’s magazine) it is time for me to say goodbye to writing Family Matters. I am going to miss AWW and every

Sharon Linolli isn’t bragging when she proclaims herself “queen of the lathe”. Rather, she’s reflecting on the fruits of an unexpected journey. “I was really scared of retiring,” she tells The Weekly. “I thought, ‘I’m just going to die. This is the

When looking for a word to describe Melanie Lynskey’s latest project, “harrowing” comes to mind. The prolific Kiwi actress is no stranger to creating impactful and thought-provoking characters. But in playing real-life author Heather Morris in the sm

There is an abundance of intriguing claims circulating about skin. It’s three times heavier than the brain, the size of a single bedsheet, and each square inch has six metres of blood vessels ... but zoom in beyond what the natural eye can see and th

The Brown family aren’t a touchy-feely clan. Yet the pure love radiating on set today between father Graeme and his youngest son is evident as The Weekly joins the two vets for a day at Wylie’s Baths in Sydney’s Coogee, just a few beaches along from

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SERVES 6 PREP TIME 10 MINUTES Cut 900g baby heirloom tomatoes in half; place in a large bowl with ¼ cup coarsely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh mint and 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh dill. To a screw-top j

From cutting out carbs and avoiding sugar to subsisting on shakes and skipping meals, chances are you’ve tried countless diets over the years with varying success, often ending up heavier than when you started. While you can stick to it for a while,

Litbegins Litbegins subtly. A loved one becomes more forgetful, finding it harder to remember things they once had no trouble recalling. They misplace everyday items, like car keys or mobile phones, and become confused doing routine tasks like superm

Bedrooms are a really fun place to decorate. They’re ideal to try out a new style or colour and test your comfort with it, before you debut it in your living spaces. Here are four amazing bedroom looks that are inspiring my decorating right now. From