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Snow fun & new arrivals

Around the world • Hundreds of costumed paddeboarders filled Moscow’s waterways during the annual Stand-up Paddleboard Festival.

Stars cast a spell over London

Step into David Hockney’s vivid world

5 minutes with … Jodi Picoult

Drought reveals relics

Celebrating inner beauty

Love and support in adversity • Ex-serviceman Curtis McGrath and wife Rachel are united in their determination to support Wounded Heroes Australia.

Her greatest love story • As the beloved singer passes away aged 80, we take a look back at her romance with the man she loved for six decades – and the effect that losing Carl would have on her heart.

Tributes to an icon

Karima Hazim joins TheWeekly • Since childhood, Karima Hazim has cooked with her mum, Sivine. Their Sunday Kitchen class and cookbook, Sofra, have won them many fans. Karima brings her love of Lebanese cuisine to The Weekly.

What I’ve learnt about... • children and grief

DAME HELEN MIRREN Her most unexpected role • At 81, the actress shows no signs of slowing down, with roles in MobLand and The Thursday Murder Club. And she has a new passion – saving the blighted olive trees of Puglia, where she and her husband have a home. Michael Odell meets her for lunch.

MEET JULIA 2.0

A royal reckoning • For more than a century, Japan’s royal family has banned women from the throne. But with male heirs in short supply and public demand for equal rights for its princesses, the monarchy is in crisis.

THE WINDS OF CHANGE • With far-right politics on the rise globally and voters abandoning major parties here at home, Australia’s record number of female parliamentarians are bracing for a storm at the next election.

‘I was never in the cool gang ’ • Natalie Imbruglia was a stalwart of Nineties pop culture. Now 51 and enjoying a renaissance, she talks solo parenting, self-confidence and how recording her new self-funded album, Algorithm, proved both enormously fun and satisfyingly cathartic.

We need to talk about stillbirth. • It’s a taboo subject no family wants to think about, let alone experience. But with six babies stillborn every day, experts want to combat misinformation and talk about prevention.

Liane & Jaclyn Moriarty:Sisters in storytelling • Their love of words – and each other – has seen these two extraordinary women create some of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction. And it all began when their dad offered them an inventive way to earn pocket money …

My dad Jim Henson • Jim Henson’s puppet characters told stories packed with heart and intelligence. As a new exhibition details 70 years of love, learning, magic and imagination, for his daughter, Lisa Henson, it’s not merely an exhibition, it’s a family album brought to life.

SUZIE MILLER In a league of her own • She is one of Australia’s great playwrights and has built her reputation by shining a spotlight on women’s lives. The Weekly meets the creator of the globally acclaimed Prima Facie, to chat about love, family and the never-ending role of footy in a Melbourne girl’s life.

The eternal love of Romeo + Juliet

Deliverance from Doomsday • She was raised to believe the end of the world was nigh. But when Nadine Browne found female literature, she escaped her fundamentalist church for life as a writer.

All’s well that ends well...