What on earth was the Dalai Lama doing at Australia Zoo today? Okay, that was a rhetorical question, I know the answer. He was talking about kindness to animals and the environment. At... the Crocoseum. But what he was...

Everyone's fighting with Catholics in the news today. Most of Australia's Catholic politicians are angrily attacking George Pell's threat of "consequences" if they supported stem cell research, noted ethicist Gisele Bundchen is getting stuck into the Brazilian Catholic Church,...

Having someone break up with you is never easy but, as Dan Kaufman reports, it can be worse for the dumper....

Bowling presents a multitude of challenges, including an overkill of '80s music. By David Wilson....

Brooke Hemphill fears for Sydney's dating pool: two pairs of this week's singles have met before....

Richard Hemming discovers being beautiful garners lots of privileges....

This week the jolly green ogre, joined by Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel, returns to the big screen in Shrek the Third....

This week a bus driver is paid a back-handed compliment he probably could have done without...

Les U. Knight is the spokesman for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement....

What a shame Australia's Next Top Model is drawing to a close today. And with it, the brief period in the spotlight for the contestants, who will now fade back into the obscurity whence the came. All, that is,...

The Coalition would not be at all happy with the headline on the front cover of today's SMH. Yesterday was the showpiece Prime Ministerial address at the Federal Liberal Council, where John Howard had his chance to lay out...

Why, exactly, did Kevin Rudd demand that Dean Mighell leave the ALP? What heinous crime did he commit? From what I can see, he won workers a pay increase, boasted about it in somewhat tacky terms and he used...

Degree or not degree -- that is the question Richard Hemming asks, as university doesn't always deliver the skills employers want....

Lenny Ann Low never expected to enjoy a course on car maintenance. How wrong she was....

There are plenty of rules when travelling on public transport. Jenny Tabakoff has the unwritten ones....

Whether stuck up Everest or down an alley in a tank, the members of the Cock Up Club believe failure can be glorious. Adam Lusher reports....

It's another week of vacuous comments across Sydney...

At the cinema Eric Bana goes to rural Victorian in Romulus, My Father. It's too late to get Enmore Theatre tickets to West Australian band Eskimo Joe but you can still catch them in Newcastle....

FBi Radio president Cassandra Wilkinson is the author of Don't Panic! Nearly Everything is Better Than You Think....

Who'd have thought it? Apparently Advanced Hair isn't all that a phalanx of former cricketers say it is. A British advertising standards tribunal has said Shane Warne should stop claiming that the "AHS-FP" product cures baldness. Yeah, he should,...