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Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking following a lengthy public trial, which saw a number of women testify against him, including former girlfriend and singer, Cassie Ventura . He has, however, been found guilty of two lesser charges of transportation to engage in prostitution, and will be sentenced in due course. The jail time for these charges can carry up to a maximum of 10 years each. Given the scale of the trial, which heard from 34 witnesses in less than two months, including former employees of Combs, male sex workers, federal agents, and his ex-girlfriends, the news that the jury had made their decision sent shockwaves around the globe - not least because of the nature of some of the evidence against him. He has consistently denied the charges. Most notably, people will remember the video of Cassie Ventura being dragged through and beaten in a hotel corridor by Combs in 2016. It's not a new tale, and ...

When America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders came back for season two, it brought some of the most confronting storylines we've seen yet. While the Netflix series continues to showcase the glamour and athleticism of being a part of the DCC, the season didn't shy away from the darker realities some of these women face away from the field. One of the main cheerleaders that the show spotlights this season is Chandi Dayle, whose journey reveals a deeply personal experience with domestic violence and the complex challenges of healing while performing at the highest level. Chandi's storyline shows just how brutal it can be when personal trauma collides with the pressure to perform in a competitive environment. Watch the trailer for America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders season two. Article continues after video. Video via YouTube/Netflix Who is Chandi? Chandi Dayle was a veteran Dallas Co...

Male sports stars are the subject of sanitised hagiographies all the time – so it is probably unfair to expect more of Mary Earps: Queen of Stops, a slick, shallow profile of England’s Euro 2022-winning goalkeeper. She certainly deserves the praise. Earps is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest shot-stoppers, playing a crucial role in England’s Euro 2022 win – that once-in-a-lifetime occasion where the England football team lived up to the “It’s Coming Home” hype/nonsense. As her Paris Saint-Germain coach, Mickael Grondin, says: “Very few goal keepers – and I’m talking about men – have that intuition. That’s what makes Mary one of the world’s best goal keepers”. But while there is no doubt about either her talent or her determination, the film nonetheless has the fluffy aura of a puff piece. There is nothing about her abrupt retirement this May from international football, just 36 days before the start of the 2025 European Championship (which began on Wednesd...

Many ladies enter Farmer Wants A Wife in the hopes of finding love, but do they exit the reality dating series with new friends? Each year, new contestants leave their home to temporarily – or permanently if you’re the lucky finalist – relocate to the farm where they attempt to steal their Farmer’s hearts. Away from their normal routine, many of the ladies find companionship in their fellow contestants despite technically competing for love. The 2025 participants are no different! After being chosen by Farmer Corey to continue a relationship with, Keeley shared an appreciation post to Instagram, writing about the “fun moments,” the “expected downs,” but also the friendship. “I will forever feel so blessed to have shared FWAW with the beautiful women I had the pleasure of meeting along the way, many of who are lifelong friends,” she captioned the above photo. “To Corey’s family and friends; thank you for accepting me with open arms and huge smiles, and t...

Many ladies enter Farmer Wants A Wife in the hopes of finding love, but do they exit the reality dating series with new friends? Each year, new contestants leave their home to temporarily – or permanently if you’re the lucky finalist – relocate to the farm where they attempt to steal their Farmer’s hearts. Away from their normal routine, many of the ladies find companionship in their fellow contestants despite technically competing for love. The 2025 participants are no different! After being chosen by Farmer Corey to continue a relationship with, Keeley shared an appreciation post to Instagram, writing about the “fun moments,” the “expected downs,” but also the friendship. “I will forever feel so blessed to have shared FWAW with the beautiful women I had the pleasure of meeting along the way, many of who are lifelong friends,” she captioned the above photo. “To Corey’s family and friends; thank you for accepting me with open arms and huge smiles, and t...

Sandy Yawn has worked in yachting for more than three decades. She says that as a woman, she had to work harder to prove herself in the industry. The Below Deck Mediterranean star shared advice with BI for other women in male-dominated fields. This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Sandy Yawn, a superyacht captain and star of 'Below Deck Mediterranean.' The following has been edited for length and clarity. When I started my yachting career more than 30 years ago, I'd never seen a woman captain. Women worked on ships, but they were few and far between in the world of yachts, and I'd never seen one at the helm. I fell into yachting, or maybe the job found me. When I started working maintenance on boats, I had no idea yachting could be a career. Decades later, I'm a superyacht captain. I want to create opportunities for other women to get into this industry. For a long time, I didn't have any fema...

Christy Rutherford left a successful Coast Guard career due to toxic leadership and burnout. She faced deeper burnout, financial loss, and depression after resigning from her position. Rutherford rebuilt her life and now helps other leaders recover from burnout and achieve success. I started my career in the US Coast Guard as a college sophomore in 1996. After graduating, I was stationed on a ship in Charleston, South Carolina, chasing drug runners in the Caribbean. I transitioned into crisis management and moved four times over the next 12 years. I responded to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and worked on Capitol Hill as a congressional fellow for the late Congressman Elijah Cummings in 2007. I loved my career and learned from some exceptional leaders. I also had the misfortune of surviving a few toxic ones. I was one of 50 Black women officers out of nearly 50,000, and I felt my competence was questioned regularly. I worked 80 hours weekly to prove myself....

Who mops the kitchen floor in your house? Or oversees the grocery shop and meal prep every week? For generations, the burden of household labour often came down to traditional gender roles — dad went to work, while mum stayed home with the kids. Today, many families split these responsibilities or juggle them alongside dual careers. But now some young women are choosing to quit work altogether and stay at home. They call themselves "traditional wives", or "tradwives". The term was made famous by social media influencers like Nara Smith, a model and mother of three young children, with a fourth on the way. She seemingly spends most of her day cooking food from scratch, from the cereal she serves her kids at breakfast to the hundreds and thousands she uses on their ice cream. In highly curated clips posted on their online accounts, self-proclaimed tradwives tend to their gardens, homeschool their children and bake sourdough bread. ...

Behind Michelle Obama's strength and resilience lies an upbringing marked by simplicity and authenticity. A lesson passed down by her mother, Marian Robinson, that continues to inspire the former First Lady… and might just transform your own outlook on parenting. The Art of Showing Your Flaws: The Legacy of Marian Robinson When Michelle Obama talks about her childhood, she's not describing a fairy tale. She's talking about a small apartment on Chicago's South Side, simple meals, frank discussions around the dinner table, and most of all... her mother. Marian Robinson didn't have a parenting book on her nightstand or a degree in child psychology. However, she possessed something rarer: everyday wisdom and a capacity for truth. Being truthful, for her, meant saying "I don't know" when she didn't have an answer. It meant acknowledging that she was tired, that she needed a moment of calm, or that she had made a mistake. This stance...

Swimming is not a rite of passage for most multicultural women living in Australia. While children born in Australia are likely to be exposed to swimming lessons as toddlers, and again throughout school, that is not the norm for women such as Tira Avery, who moved from Thailand to Australia almost a decade ago. After getting married, Ms Avery settled in Gippsland in eastern Victoria and soon realised a life in the country meant being around lots of water. "My husband loves to go camping near rivers," she said. "If I would like to join my husband [camping], it's better for me to know how to look after myself before help arrives if I happened to be drowning." In Victoria, people born overseas are five times more likely to drown than people born in the state. That was why Ms Avery signed up for multicultural women's swimming lessons at the Warragul Leisure Centre along with 19 other women from her multicultural frie...

I’ve always had a visceral relationship with time. I want to live a thousand lives in one, enriched with experiences of all kinds. My 20s were about travel and freedom; my early 30s about building my business and moving to New York City. Once I turned 35, that was my cue to start our fertility journey . As ambitious career women, we’re told we have time, especially with modern science. Build your career, travel the world, buy a house and get married then have kids. But life (and reproduction) isn’t always linear. Enter egg freezing. Is it a way for women to ‘have it all’ – the career, the financial security and the perfect timing – or is there more to it? According to IVF Australia, there has been a 1500 per cent increase in the number of women in Australia and New Zealand freezing their eggs in the past decade, a figure which has doubled in the past three years alone. Andrea Syrtash, a relationship expert and founder of infertility plat...

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates says there’s one surprising skill Gen Alpha girls can build in high school to boost their chances of becoming a CEO—and it’s not coding or straight A’s. It’s playing sports. Research backs her up: 94% of women in the C-suite were once athletes. Want to increase your chances, or perhaps your child’s odds, of one day becoming a female CEO? Sign up for high school football, gymnastics, tennis (or any sports team for that matter), pronto. That’s because when it comes to the few women who actually make it to the top, there’s one striking pattern they all share. “The only correlation they can find of women in the C suite, the CEO spot, it that they all played sport—or the majority played sport,” Melinda French Gates recently explained at the Power of Women’s Sports Summit presented by e.l.f. Beauty. “And the thesis is (we don’t know why that is) they didn’t mind failing,” the 60-year-old billionaire philanthropist a...

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates says there’s one surprising skill Gen Alpha girls can build in high school to boost their chances of becoming a CEO—and it’s not coding or straight A’s. It’s playing sports. Research backs her up: 94% of women in the C-suite were once athletes. Want to increase your chances, or perhaps your child’s odds, of one day becoming a female CEO? Sign up for high school football, gymnastics, tennis (or any sports team for that matter), pronto. That’s because when it comes to the few women who actually make it to the top, there’s one striking pattern they all share. “The only correlation they can find of women in the C suite, the CEO spot, it that they all played sport—or the majority played sport,” Melinda French Gates recently explained at the Power of Women’s Sports Summit presented by e.l.f. Beauty. “And the thesis is (we don’t know why that is) they didn’t mind failing,” the 60-year-old billionaire philanthropist a...

After Robyn was promoted to an officer, she soon realised how important women were to the Australian army On peacekeeping missions, local women felt safe enough to confide in Robyn so she could help implement important changes in their lives Later she became one of the first ever women to ever take the Commando selection course and later became the first woman to earn the coveted green beret But when she retired after 22 years of service, she struggled with chronic pain and it was taking a toll on her mental health Robyn Fellowes, from Ravensbourne, Qld, shares how she saved her own life when she was just seconds from death… Sweat poured down my forehead as I lifted the heavy stretcher. I can do this, I told myself. It was 1999, and I was part-way through the commando selection course. Thankfully, the ‘body’ we were carrying was actually a heavy sandbag, but everything else about the arduous 30km march was as tough as real-life condition...