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What men really think about modern dating — by my exes

Times: Is modern masculinity really in crisis? Megan Agnew asks six of her recent dates.

My stay at a weight-loss clinic that costs $150,000 a week

Times: Clients stay in 7-star luxury with a team of experts - but does it actually work?

Harry Belafonte: Remembering the barrier-breaking singer, actor and activist

New York Times: The singer went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement.

Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

Telegraph: Silicon Valley’s ‘pronatalists’ are on a baby-making mission.

Settling Australia’s greatest urban rivalry: Melbourne or Sydney – which is better?

Telegraph: Which metropolis takes the crown?

Sacklers gave millions to institution that advises on opioid policy

New York Times: Even as the drug crisis mounted, they accepted funds from Sackler family.

Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the Covid-19 story

New York Times: Under govt pressure, Chinese scientists have withheld or deleted data.

Blood and Gore: Inside split between mayor and CEO tearing a town apart

Kurt Bayer reports on the tumultuous tenure so far of NZ’s youngest-ever mayor.

Menendez murders: New twist in notorious case of the killer siblings

New York Times: Lyle and Erik Menendez shot their parents at their LA mansion in 1989.

Japan has millions of empty houses. Want to buy one for $35k?

New York Times: By 2033, 30 per cent of all Japan's houses will likely be vacant.

Two children, a burst of gunfire and the year that came after

New York Times: When a gunman opened fire at a Texas school, 19 children died.

'Whatever happens, happens': Inside the pods with Love is Blind

New York Times: Producers insist that what they see is (mostly) what you get.

How much you should weigh in your 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s – and beyond

Telegraph: Our bodies and energy needs change as we age. Here's what to aim for.

'I didn't kill her': He was jailed 20 years ago for murdering his wife to marry a prostitute. Now he wants to clear his name

In his first interview, Kevin Harmer says he did not set a car alight killing his wife.

Changing the world as we know it? ChatGPT king isn’t worried, but he knows you are

New York Times: If he does make human intelligence useless, he has a plan to fix it.

Following Princess Diana: Secrets of the 1983 NZ royal tour revealed, 40 years on

All eyes were on a glowing Princess Diana.