Your afternoon Briefing: Stony-faced, George Pell met his fate

Good afternoon, readers. What happens now that Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced and Borce Ristevski pleads guilty to killing his wife.

Good afternoon, readers. Cardinal George Pell will appeal his six-year jail sentence and Borce Ristevski has pleaded guilty to killing his wife.

George Pell (centre) has been sentenced to six years' jail on child sex abuse offences. Judge Peter Kidd (top right) handed down the sentence today as Pell supporters (top left), media (bottom left) and victim support group members (bottom right) watched on from outside the court.

The George Pell sentence: Where to from here?

The destruction of George Pell’s reputation is all but complete, writes John Ferguson. But as Jack the Insider warns: “the guilt and shame from institutional child sexual abuse can’t be conveniently parcelled and packed away with one man.”

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Karen Ristevski with her husband Borce Ristevski and daughter Sarah. Supplied

Ristevski pleads guilty

On the eve of his Supreme Court murder trial Borce Ristevski has pleaded guilty to killing his wife Karen.

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(FILES) A file photo taken on November 20, 2017 shows logos of US multinational technology company Google displayed on computers' screens. - Google is dropping out of the bidding for a huge Pentagon cloud computing contract that could be worth up to $10 billion, saying the deal would be inconsistent with its principles. The decision by Google, confirmed to AFP in an email October 9, 2018, leaves a handful of other tech giants including Amazon in the running for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract aimed at modernizing the military's computing systems. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Global Gmail outage hits users

Google’s email service has been hit with a worldwide outage and Australia is one of the countries most severely affected.

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The High Court sat for the first time in Darwin, at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, to hear the final appeal of the Timber Creek native title compensation claim.

Landmark native title decision

A historic High Court decision on how native title compensation is calculated has set a precedent that could cost billions nationally, lawyers say.

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Former PM Bob Hawke and wife Blanche d'Alpuget have sold their Northbridge home. Picture: Brett Costello/Tim Hunter

Hawke sells Sydney home

Former prime minister Bob Hawke and his wife Blanche have sold their Sydney home for about $15 million in an off market deal.