Top stories ELI GREENBLAT 6:22pm | Less than one year after buying Dick Smith from supermarket giant Woolworths, the private equity owners are floating the retailer. | Kate McClymont, Michaela Whitbourn 3:15pm | Wads of cash were found in the safe of the Obeid family's headquarters when ICAC raided the premises, a video reveals. | NICK MILLER 2:23pm | It's a funny old job you have, when you're entitled to the old age pension before starting the work you've trained for your whole life. | Hannah Low 4:35pm | Lawyers for Oliver Curtis suggest his relationship with John Hartman deteriorated because Mr Hartman moved in on their friends' girlfriends. | Matt O'Sullivan 3:24pm | The pilot of an ABC helicopter which crashed two years ago became disoriented shortly after take-off, air-safety investigators have found. | SEAN NICHOLLS 2:46pm | The upper house of the NSW Parliament has narrowly voted down a bill to legalise same-sex marriage. | Sheree Mutton, Brad Forrest 5:07pm | Anthony Mundine believes his Hurstville cafe was fire-bombed on Thursday morning. | AMY CORDEROY 2:31pm | I sat at my desk, in a busy newsroom, sobbing. Not the tears of someone trying to hide the fact they are crying at work, but huge, body-shaking sobs. | Mark Kenny, Chris Johnson 3:06pm | Jessica Rudd has ruled herself out of consideration as a replacement for Kevin Rudd, who resigns at the end of the week. | JONATHAN SWAN 3:28pm | Tony Abbott is involved in a high-stakes fight over the government's borrowing limit, with his attempt to lift the debt ceiling rejected in the Senate. | 12:45pm | Sixteen-year-old Jake Doran will get a shot at England this month, after being picked in a Chairman's XI side for a two-day match in Alice Springs. | JACOB SAULWICK 5:37pm | The M5 East motorway should be reopened soon after a truck's tipping tray became wedged in the tunnel ceiling on Thursday morning. | Katherine Seelye 11:59am | A flood of emotion has overwhelmed a US courtroom as the relatives of people killed by James 'Whitey' Bulger told of their loves and losses. | 2:42pm | An aquatic centre, a university law building and a gothic church have been nominated as among the five best buildings in Sydney. | | | Advertisement  Did you miss? Advertisement  |
