Infertility: at a time when we need the right words, others are unable to find them | Nuala McGovern
For me, better timing, fewer platitudes, less certainty and more listening and empathy are helpful ways of connecting with people in the loneliest of times Some things are easy to…
‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say By the 1980s, Detroit’s once titanic carmakers were being…
‘I’ve seen the devil’: Brazil’s UFO capital marks 30 years since ‘alien encounter’
Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around world The skies over this far-flung coffee-growing hub went charcoal black, the…
I lost my love of cooking after 12 years as a chef. Moving to a pig farm restored it
Hospitality can be anything but hospitable to workers. But in regional Victoria, I found a community – and rediscovered something I’d lost Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I…
Saturday Night Live UK review – it didn’t fail and it could have been a lot worse
Impressions of Keir Starmer, sketches about dodgy skincare products, and some ‘god-awful performances’ aside, the inaugural episode’s ambition was refreshing to see In the end, it’s a feeling, isn’t it?…
Claire Hooper: ‘People have different forms of therapy. Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age is mine’
The comedian, TV presenter and Bake Off alum gushes about the joy of silence, an awkward encounter with Shane Warne, and getting recognised during a colonoscopy Get our weekend culture…
The Melbourne expert who has spent a lifetime uncovering ‘the archaeology of the printed book’
Prof Wallace Kirsop, 92, is one of Australia’s foremost experts in rare books – not just their contents but their makers, buyers and readers, and the stories they tell beyond…
Matildas rise to a grand occasion but are left to rue the goal that never came
Australia had Japan on the back foot for long periods but a flurry of shots were scuffed, saved and blocked in a narrow Women’s Asian Cup final defeat An occasion…
Strike on Sudan hospital kills at least 64 and wounds 89 more, WHO reports
Victims of army drone attack on East Darfur health facility included children and medical personnel A strike on a healthcare facility in Sudan has killed 64 people and wounded 89…
Jess Hull and Kurtis Marschall win bronze as Australia eye more medals on final day at world indoors
Hull claims third in rough-and-tumble 3,000m final Pole vaulter Marshchall clears 6m for first time in a championship Jess Hull and Kurtis Marschall have won bronze medals at the world…