Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen has used his moral authority as a church leader to condemn sports clubs that benefit from the losses of pokie addicts.

Sydney’s most powerful can change the way the city looks, feels and works, and make it a better (or worse) place to live. So who’s on the list and who’s missed out?

Steve Jobs, the talismanic co-founder of Apple, has died today at the age of 56. He was at the forefront of a technology revolution which permanently altered the way people around the world communicate and consume media.

Australia has its first winner of the Nobel Prize for physics since World War One, after Professor Brian Schmidt became the country's 12th Nobel laureate last night.

Jessica Rudd’s follow-up to her debut novel will continue the personal and political dramas of her protagonist Ruby, but it’s unlikely to feature a female PM sinking in the polls, nor a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Michael Kroger's imperial palace is no more, but at least the Liberal powerbroker's got half a million dollars to build a new empire from scratch.

The AFL has scored a win in the battle of the football codes, after its grand final drew more television viewers than that of its NRL rival.