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Reconsidering the Spice Girls: How manufactured girl power became real

New York Times: Twenty-five years since Spice World, their legacy is still being written.

Martha Stewart welcomes you to 'Generation Ageless'

New York Times: The octogenarian is the new face of skin care on TikTok.

Conversation with a 14yo ram raider - what he said before the police arrived

Waiting for police to arrive, alleged ram raider - 14 - talks to journalist David Fisher.

Bill Gates: 'I'm grieving the same way Melinda is'

Times: A year after splitting from his wife, Bill Gates talks about being single again.

'I don't really have a business plan': How Elon Musk wings it

New York Times: World's richest man acts on impulse and belief that he's absolutely right.

'It's a scandal:' Why Kiwi kids' teeth are rotting

Too many children are having decayed baby teeth pulled out, the dental industry says.

'Drink this, you'll feel better': Is this how Marilyn Monroe really died?

A new doco finds Marilyn was not 'deliberately killed'. But one ex-investigator disagrees.

He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he 'disappeared'

New York Times: In an ordinary convention room in 1972, something extraordinary happened.

Terror in aisle seven: Inside the Dunedin Countdown knife attack

Those first on the scene of the Dunedin Countdown knife attack speak for the first time.

'I'm shattered': A haunting disappearance sparks outrage in Mexico

New York Times: In a chilling final photo, Debanhi Escobar stands alone on a dark highway.

They flooded their own village, and kept the Russians at bay

New York Times: By wreaking havoc on its own territory, Ukraine fights back.

The MP, his lover and the bungled hit: An infamous British scandal resurfaces

Times: In 1979, Norman Scott was pilloried and dismissed. Now he's telling his own story.

How loneliness is damaging our health

New York Times: Loneliness can be damaging to both mental and physical health.

This man married a fictional character. He'd like you to hear him out

New York Times: Thousands of people are in devoted fictional relationships.

'I looked like a Cyclops': Sharon Osbourne on surgery, Piers Morgan and racism row

Times: "In the entertainment industry everyone's a hypocrite, everybody's a jobsworth."

They're some of Hollywood's top publicists. Just don't ask them why

New York Times: Between Will Smith's slap and the Rihanna rumours - their hands are full.

Jennifer Grey on Dirty Dancing, 'schnozzageddon' and divorce at 60

New York Times: "Being misunderstood on a global stage was very painful."

'She was a happy, confident child'- until Covid sparked 'nightmare' OCD onset

'Almost overnight, we lost our daughter and instead had one terrorised by mental illness.'