Marathon
Surviving a midlife crisis
Tony Davis An affair is the classic response to a man's midlife crisis, but Tony Davis wonders if there isn't a better solution.
Madoff's bed, shoes and pants sold in $2m auction
Philip Boroff A New York auction of the spoils of Bernard Madoff's fraud raised more than $US2 million for his victims - as souvenir hunters snapped up his canopy bed, footwear and even his underwear.
You've got veil
Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi - a former punk and a fierce smoker - lifts the the veil on a feisty childhood.
How long can it go on?
Stephanie Wood Kath & Kim returned to television to become the most popular show of the year.
