Best and worst of the week

We’ve hit the end of another week and you know what that means – it’s time to share our best and worst moments. So grab a cup of tea, sit back and relax as we go through the week that’s been.

On the news front, we’ve looked at the one-year anniversary of Julia becoming our PM and the climate change debate.

We discussed girls and bullying, the phenomenal SBS documentary Go Back to Where you Came From and whether ‘fat’ is the right word to say to kids.

We chatted about what we’re putting off doing, whether jeans or sex is more exciting and what we’re currently loving on TV.

Speaking of TV, we got a great insight into what being on a reality TV show is really like. We also shared our first world problems and looked at the latest fashion epidemic.

We all contributed our advice on making new friends and what not to say to someone who’s terminally ill, and we cried over this exquisitely written post about a rescue dog.

Looking for our daily news bites? You can catch up on all of them if you’ve missed any during the week – here’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. And if you’d like to see what Mia and the rest of the team have been up to, you can check out our open post of the week here.

Finally, we watched some great videos this week – how to do CPR, the vagina song and what we’d do to change the world. And to grab some style inspiration, we flicked through a gallery of our new favourite actress, Rose Byrne.

Now – onto the best and worst bits of the week. I’ll kick it off.

Best: I got my hair cut for the first time in ages. The haircut was originally going to be a worst because the hairdresser used something that very closely resembled a razor blade to hack away at my fringe. And considering he’d only said about four words to me during the entire cut (“You have long hair”) it was kind of terrifying. But it looks good and I suppose all’s well that ends well.

Worst: I am supposed to go to New Zealand in a few weeks for a little skiing holiday and there is currently no snow on the mountains over there. Not a speck. I know there is still a lot to do even if there’s no snow but I want to ski. (Insert childish tantrum here.)

Over to you – how was your week?

And while you ponder that, why not flick through the pictures we’ve been talking about this week…

Frances McDormand receives a Tony Award for her role in Good People. She wore no make-up, glasses, a stripey dress and a denim jacket. Instead of thanking her stylist or God, she opened her speech saying 'I love my job'. (via Hurricane Vanessa)

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux go public with their romance. The pair met on the set of their new film Wanderlust last October.

Sacked Christian Dior designer, John Galliano faces court, charged with making anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe. Galliano testified during his one-day trial saying that he remembers nothing because of his addictions to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills.

Jackass star Ryan Dunn (left) dies in in a high-speed car crash alongside his friend Zachary Hartwell. Toxicology reports confirmed Dunn was more than two times over the drink-drive limit when he crashed in the early hours of Monday morning. Dunn posted this photo on Twitter hours before his death.

Amy Winehouse enters an early retirement by her manager, after a woeful concert performance at Belgrade's Fortress festival.

Comedian, Sacha Baron Cohen parades through New York on a camel to promote his upcoming film The Dictator.

His character plays a Middle Eastern Dictator who arrives in America having secretly replaced by a lookalike goat herder and then goes undercover in exile.

An emperor penguin from Antarctica has arrived on Kapiti Coast beach in New Zealand, approximately 3200-kilometres from home. The creature has been nicknamed 'Happy Feet' and this is the first time in 44 years that an emperor penguin has been sighted in the wild (outside of Antarctica).

Thousands of New Yorkers take part in a mass yoga session in Times Square to mark the summer solstice.

Angelina Jolie visits with Syrian refugees who have fled their government's bloody crackdown. Arriving on a private jet with boxes of toys for the refugee camps, Jolie spent two and a half hours with the refugees paying particular attention to the women and children.

Argentina's Nahuel Huapi Lake is covered with ash from the ongoing eruption of Chile's Puyehue Volcano.

Around 50 women attend the annual running of the brides held in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. The runners compete for the chance to win various prizes, including the bridal gowns they chose to run in.

Tom Cruise tweets a photo from the filming of his new movie, Rock of Ages. He stars as 1980s heavy-metal rocker Stacee Jaxx in the musical.

The Russian government hires Yana Lapikova, a former 'Miss Moscow' finalist and lingerie model on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's team of official photographers.

Miley Cyrus tours Australia, she told Sydney radio station 2DayFM that she was nervous performing in front of boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth's parents: 'I'm really nervous about it. I'm going to be right on front of them in my Can't Be Tamed outfit. Oh my God.'

Lost and Green Mile actor, Doug Hutchinson 51, marries 16-year-old aspiring country singer, Courtney Alexis Stodden in Las Vegas. The legal age for marriage in Las Vegas is 18, however with parental consent it drops to 16.

Meet Stella Mouzi, Mel Gibson's new 25-year-old fetish model girlfriend.

Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and several other celebrities have been tangled up in a series of lawsuits over millions of dollars allegedly won during unlicensed poker games in Beverly Hills.

Tennis player, Bethany Mattek-Sands, the World number 31, wears this creation, a collaboration between the tennis player and designer Alex Noble (who has designed dresses for Lady Gaga) to the WTA pre-Wimbledon party.

She also wore this ensemble to her first match against Japan's Misaki Doi.

Katy Perry is on this month's cover of Rolling Stone wearing a chocolate bra shot by fashion photographer, Terry Richardson.

Marilyn Monroe's famous subway dress sells for $4.3 million dollars.

Lady Gaga goes bald for an acoustic performance for her new song 'Hair' on England's Paul O'Grady Show.

Sure to bring a smile to your dial: This dog has the best smile ever, what's that adage about pets and owners looking alike? (via buzzfeed).

Armenian designer Edward Howhannisjan shows his fashion designs alongside the Body Worlds - A matter of the heart exhibition at the Postbahnhof in Berlin.

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Helena Bonham Carter is the face of Marc Jacobs new autumn/winter 2011 campaign.

A Picasso painting donated to Sydney University sells for $20.7 million at a London auction at Christie's.

Gwyneth Paltrow gets pulled over by New York police and tweets this picture from her Twitter account.

The father of Indian cojoined twins, Saba and Fahar Shakeel pleads with the goverment to allow them to carry out a mercy killing to release the 15-year-olds from their severe pain. Five years ago they rejected the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi's offer to pay for surgery to separate them, because they feared that one or both might die in the operation and could not bear to lose either.

Keanu Reeves writes a poetry book, 'Ode to Happiness.' According to his publishers it: 'externalizes a melancholy internal monologue and subtly pokes fun at it.' -Or something.

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