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  • Diana Ross in a silver sequined dress and white feather hat and cape

    Met Gala 2025 red carpet: pinstripes, capes and pouring rain – in pictures

    Anna Wintour and her co-hosts Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams button up for the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
  • Mother with baby looking out the window

    Parents and parenting
    I’m losing my mum to young-onset dementia. Caring for my baby reminds me who she was

    Alexandra Hansen
  • The illustration highlights four boys sitting on a school fence looking away. Original image from Alamy.

    Kindness of strangers
    The kindness of strangers: I was injured and using crutches, when a group of scary teens offered to help me

  • Tracy Sorensen with her partner Steve Woodhall at home in Bathurst, NSW, Australia.

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: fire was lapping the trees near my house when he knocked on my door in uniform

  • Holly Wainwright (right) with her mothers group on one of their camping trips

    Parents and parenting
    My mothers’ group goes camping every year. A lot has changed, but I’m grateful we still have each other

    Holly Wainwright
  • Cook books and merchandise are seen inside the window of Brooki bakehouse in Brisbane, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Multiple cookbook authors have now accused Brooke Bellamy, who boasts millions of followers, of stealing recipes for her bestselling cookbook, Bake With Brooki. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    Torte law: bakers are in a food fight over allegations of plagiarism – but who really owns a recipe?

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Food

  • Hot honey is drizzled on panfried spinach and cheese pies served on a plate

    You've got this
    Feta together: Alice Zaslavsky’s spinach and cheese pan pies with hot honey drizzle recipe

    The cookbook author makes eating greens a breeze with frozen veg for the time-poor, speedy yoghurt flatbread and a mixture of cheese you might already have in the fridge
  • Pictured: overhead photo of a wooden table with seafood boil-up on a yellow platter and sliced oranges on a side plate. People's hands are reaching for the food.

    Australian food and drink
    ‘Your own Viet-Cajun party’: Thi Le’s spicy seafood boil-up recipe

  • Nicholas Jordan surrounded by bars of dark chocolate in their packaging

    Taste test
    Australian supermarket dark chocolate taste test: ‘I feel like a refined, classy lady eating this’

  • You've got this
    Top-notch tapas: Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for garlicky tomato bread

  • Taste test
    Australian supermarket frozen crumbed fish taste test: from catch of the day to a ‘terrible chicken nugget’

  • Grape expectations
    Crispy Dreams and Cotton Candy: why are there so many new kinds of grape?

  • Taste test
    Australian canned cocktails taste test: from grownup drinks to ‘a hen party in a can’

  • Australian food in season
    Get a head: brassicas top Australia’s best-value fruit and veg for April

  • Italian cooking
    Spiced chicken, pasta with peas and a twist on biscotti: three recipes from Guy Mirabella

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Relationships

  • An illustration of a bearded man in a green jumper, seen from behind, against a blue background

    Dating apps left me suicidal. How can I find love before it’s too late?

  • GUARDIAN TIHWDI 105.jpg

    This is how we do it: ‘We don’t need sex for intimacy – we walk around naked, kiss and flirt’

    Lucy and Kyra have accepted that their libidos differ – and their sex life ebbs, flows and evolves accordingly
  • Kate Potter

    I always wondered what had happened to my missing brother. Could I ever forgive my father for driving him away?

    Growing up, I had so many questions about Marshall, my hippy older sibling who left home and got embroiled with the Manson Family cult. Years later, I embarked on a quest to find out his true story

  • Blind date: ‘Good table manners? Do Americans have them?’

  • Tell us: have you ever made a drastic decision after a breakup?

  • You be the judge: my husband returned a gift my sister gave us. Should he confess?

  • ‘Ugly, old-fashioned, weird’: the baby names that set grandparents’ teeth on edge

  • My husband is more attractive than I am – and it makes me feel like an inadequate lover

  • This is how we do it: ‘I’m from an evangelical Christian family and didn’t know what an orgasm was till I was 24’’

  • Dating apps face a reckoning as users log off: ‘There’s no actual human connection’

  • You be the judge: should my housemate chip in with mowing the lawn?

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Fashion

  • Megan Thee Stallion poses next to a large pink cake with White Fox writing on side

    Fashion
    What’s up with White Fox? How ‘Hotmail viral’ marketing helped the fashion brand win over gen Z

    Outdoor advertising is just a very visible tip of the rapidly growing fast fashion brand’s sales efforts, which also include a university student influencer program
  • Carol Green at Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show's Floral Friday event, wearing head-to-toe Balenciaga in a matching floral print

    Australian fashion
    In full bloom: fashionable fun at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

  • Martin Grant coat

    Martin Grant’s 40-year fashion career – in pictures
    Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett and a show inside a skirt

  • (L-R): A guest wears a sheer white Dolce Gabbana jacket, floor length dress and jeans. Suzanne Browne wears a black blazer, white fedora, black tulle skirt and pearl necklace

    Australian fashion
    ‘Fun and sexy – plus it’s got pockets’: Melbourne’s fashion set fall for floor-length hems

  • Amy Lawrence holds her award

    Australian fashion
    From lockdown craft project to $20,000 prize: Amy Lawrence wins Australia’s National Designer award

  • A model with dark hair wearing a mustard coat over a draped brown dress and holding a bag of lemons

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    What can we learn from the clothes we buy but never wear?

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Health & fitness

  • G2: How to build a better life - If people-pleasing leaves you feeling empty, you may be hiding from yourself

    Are you a people pleaser? It’s time to find out what you really want

  • Emily Bratt pictured last month doing a plank outside on the grass.

    The one change that worked: I could never get fit – until I tried a 40-second plank every day

    All my attempts at exercise had ended in failure, so I decided to lower the bar. Five years of planking later and I’m a stronger and healthier person – sorry ‘athlete’
  • Emma Beddington

    Do we ever stop feeling anxious, angry or sad about relationships? Not if my older friends are any guide

    Emma Beddington
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Travel

  • An infinity pool with tangerine and white furnishings

    Australia holidays
    New renovations, retro vibes: reviving Australia’s rundown motels

    Buildings that once catered to 1950s road trippers are being transformed into boutique stays attracting a younger demographic
  • 2024 edition of the East Gippsland Winter Festival

    Winter weekenders: 21 Australian festivals worth travelling for from May to August 2025

  • Megan Holbeck and her family hike Wilsons Promontory national park

    Walking holidays
    Wombats, wallabies and whales: four days walking in Wilsons Promontory national park

  • Local's guide to Australia
    A local’s guide to Narooma: ‘People are amazed at how turquoise the water is’

  • Travel tips
    Don’t avoid romantic destinations: 15 solo travel tips from Lonely Planet’s women writers

  • Thailand holidays
    Avoid the White Lotus effect: Thailand travel without the tourists

  • Local's guide to Australia
    Our pubs are busier than Sydney’s

  • Spain
    Spring in Ibiza: enjoy a mellow Balearic beat before the crowds arrive

  • Readers' travel tips
    From wildlife in Andalucía to an alternative camino in Galicia: readers’ travel tips on unsung Spain

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    Decode this: could you make it as a double agent?

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    From AI ethics to inclusive leadership: how professional development gives businesses an edge

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    A taste of the capital: an inside look at Canberra’s vibrant food scene and the local producers shaping it

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    Uninsurable and unaffordable: climate change and the rising cost of housing

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Puzzles

  • A police box on the lawn of the museum of Natural History, Oxford, 15 May 2001

    Crossword blog
    Crossword editor’s desk: whatchamacallits and gubbins

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,687

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 17,160

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,885 easy

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,685

    • Killer sudoku
      Killer sudoku 968

    • Thomas Eaton
      What links Esperanza Spalding and Kim Deal? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? How to have fun with straws

The big picture

  • 3rdMaytrail

    What to wear for the May bank holiday weekend

    Maybe you are having your first barbecue of the year, or going for a long, lazy lunch. Whatever your bank holiday plans, light layers and accessories with personality are always a good idea
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