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Around the world • Finland: Lapland’s skies were illuminated as strong solar activity created dazzling displays of the northern lights. 

The woman behind The King • As Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla readies to hit screens, we look back at the early life – and great love – of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley.

True tales on film • Priscilla isn’t the only movie set in history releasing this month ...

Puppy love • A new season of Muster Dogs swaps out kelpies for Australian border collies.

Females in the frame • Some of the world’s best women artists are on show around the country this month.

Royal insider

Rebecca Gibney • The beloved actress chats exclusively with The Weekly about family life, empty nesting, and the contentment and hard-won self-acceptance she’s found with the passing years.

Standing strong in a storm • A little over a year ago, 15-year-old Perth boy Cassius Turvey died after being beaten by strangers on his way home from school, and in the aftermath his mother’s call for peace united the nation. The Weekly meets Mechelle Turvey, WA’s inspiring Australian of the Year.

The French revolution • Dawn French quit her sketch show because she felt so ugly. Now the “roly-poly comedian” wants us all to stop fretting about our faults. She talks body image, surviving the 1980s and owning her mistakes.

Waves of change • While Australian women have long dominated surfing’s highest levels, there’s a broader change happening on beaches around Australia. No longer held back by a Puberty Blues-era surf culture, there’s a new sea of eager surfers – women in their 50s, 60s and beyond.

An uncaged heart • After more than two years in Iranian jails, Kylie Moore-Gilbert has forged a new life that’s brimming with love, and a determination to help others who have been wrongfully imprisoned.

Falling in love, again • Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton did it – twice. More recently Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck tied the knot after 18 years apart. Can an old romance really be rekindled? The Weekly meets the Aussie couples who found love together the second time around.

Trump’s women • Will it be the jailhouse or the White House for Donald Trump this year? The women in his life could make all the difference.

The gift of life • Maureen Elliott had just months to live when she went on St Vincent’s Hospital’s transplant list. Thirty years on she’s one of the longest living heart-lung transplant recipients in the world.

Bright stars in a rugged land • The hot, dusty opal fields around Lightning Ridge in outback NSW have traditionally been a man’s world. Now The Weekly meets the women who have been struck by opal fever.

A crook or a gentleman? • He was a business tycoon, the father of Princess Diana’s last boyfriend, owner of Harrods and desperate to be pals with Britain’s aristocracy. But who was the mysterious Mohamed Al Fayed?

Licensed to ride • It’s equal parts thrilling and terrifying when your child is finally old enough to take the wheel.

Can you buy a good night’s sleep? • Forty percent of Australians have trouble sleeping, and the market has responded with a mind-boggling array of sleep aids. But do any of them actually work? The Weekly goes in search of slumber.

Everest, my teacher • Jen Willis had her heart set on becoming the first Australian with multiple sclerosis to summit Mount Everest. But when those dreams came crashing down, she found something more precious.

A curly question • A resolution that’s both ‘out with the old, in with the new’ and an embrace of times...