‘I laughed out loud dozens of times’: authors choose books to make you fall back in love with reading
From a darkly comic new novel to a gripping 1950s memoir – Katherine Rundell, Malala Yousafzai, Matt Haig and others appearing at Hay festival pick titles to tempt you Malala…
My body is fat, not wrong: how body neutrality – not positivity – helped me shed a lifetime of shame | Jasper Peach
If I’d been taught this way of thinking as a child, I can’t begin to imagine how much easier things could have been In 1981 the CD was born and…
The moment I knew: I’d quit my job and was newly single – then he smiled and I felt like I was home
When Monika Ruggerino broke a restaurant lamp – a favourite item of the charismatic chef Antonio – she had no idea it would change the course of her life Find…
A divorce lawyer on signs of relationship breakdown: ‘One of the biggest red flags – when you no longer argue’
After more than a decade in family law, Gabriella Pomare has seen certain catalysts for ‘silent divorce’ – and the strategies that can help “One of the biggest things I…
‘Huge grievance’ pushes One Nation to major status
Australia’s major political parties face a “huge amount of grievance” as a leading Liberal figure concedes his party’s decade of flawed policies has helped fuel the rise of One Nation.…
As cemeteries fill, Australians choose forests
When Helen Rafferty succumbed to a five-year illness on the eve of the first COVID-19 lockdown, her husband Michael had to act fast to farewell his “darling wife of 44…
Evacuations in California as chemical tank cools
US authorities are scrambling to cool an overheated chemical storage tank and keep it from exploding close to Disneyland’s two theme parks, as nearby residents are forced to evacuate. No…
Pope meets grieving families affected by mafia dumping
Pope Leo has greeted grieving families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples, tied to a multi-billion-dollar mafia-run criminal racket. Many paused to share…
Cambodian crashes kill 14 garment workers, injure 79
Two separate traffic collisions in Cambodia have killed at least 14 garment factory workers and injured 79 others, mostly women. The garment sector is Cambodia’s main export earner, with low…
Iran, US are closer to a deal to end the war: officials
The United States and Iran are close to agreeing on a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war, officials say, as America weighs a new round of attacks on…