This Week's WHO Magazine: Best & Worst of 2014

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THE BEST AND WORST OF 2014
It was the year a pop princess made chart-topping history, a bare butt almost broke the internet, an A-list star decamped to Australia with her gorgeous family and a comic genius was lost. WHO's annual Best and Worst issue is packed with 2014's most memorable moments: celebrity weddings, shock splits, births, deaths and scandals. Plus, meet Australia's Most Intriguing People of 2014.

STARS OF THE YEAR
WHO unveils our 10 stars of the year, led by newly minted superstar Taylor Swift, who opens up about her rise to pop-culture domination, and Hollywood icon Angelina Jolie, who reveals her personal highlights of 2014.

AUSTRALIA'S MOST INTRIGUING PEOPLE OF 2014

JULIE BISHOP - THE NEGOTIATOR

Reflecting on a relentless 2014, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop tells WHO she has always secretly harboured an ambition to be Australia's Foreign Minister and is now "living the dream."

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INXS - RENEWED SENSATION

Thanks to a TV mini-series, the band find themselves back at the top of the charts, 17 years after the death of frontman Michael Hutchence.

JESINTA CAMPBELL & BUDDY FRANKLIN - LOVE MATCH

The year former Miss Universe Australia Jesinta Campbell, 23, and AFL's $10 million man Lance "Buddy" Franklin, 27, came out of hiding.

LARA BINGLE - NEW FOCUS

After romantic and professional turbulence, the globetrotting model made 2014 the year of new beginnings.

SONIA KRUGER - MUM'S THE WORD

After years of trying to fall pregnant, Sonia Kruger, 49, and partner Craig McPherson are having a longed-for baby.

IAN THORPE - OUT AND PROUD

Following years of speculation and denials, the Olympic champ came out as gay.

BLAKE GARVEY - CONTROVERSIAL CASANOVA

The Bachelor's smooth talker turns love rat, dumping short-lived fiancee Sam Frost for third-placed Louise Pillidge.

SIA - RELUCTANT POP STAR

After years of penning hits for other superstars, the Adelaide-born hitmaker, 38, becomes a star in her own right.

ALEX McKINNON - LEAGUE OF HIS OWN

After a devastating spinal injury in March the NRL player, 22, opens up on his punishing 7-month rehabilitation.

MARK LAING - ALLISON'S ALLY

The veteran police inspector shares the hard work and heartbreak that cracked the murder case of Brisbane mother Allison Baden-Clay (her husband, Gerard, was convicted in July).

ROSIE BATTY - MOTHER COURAGE

The suburban mother becomes a powerful campaigner against domestic violence, ensuring her only child's memory lives on.

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PLUS, INSIDE THE SYDNEY SIEGE: HORROR AND THE HEARTBREAK

Two hostages died and a gunman was killed in the climax to a horrifying siege that shut down a city and brought the deadly tactics of a self-proclaimed jihadist to our shores. WHO speaks to witnesses of the terrifying ordeal, and pays tribute to the two heroic victims who tragically lost their lives.

PHOTOS: Sydney Under Siege: Harrowing Photos From Sydney's Darkest Day

PHOTOS: Sydney Under Siege: Harrowing Photos From Sydney's Darkest Day