Sydney Seige

Two victims of a deadly siege in Sydney were being remembered on Tuesday at private memorial services, one week after a gunman took them hostage inside a downtown cafe.

Viswakanth Ankireddy, an Indian IT worker who was held hostage during the Sydney cafe siege on December 15, said Thursday that he is getting better day-by-day with his wife's support.

The siege at the Sydney cafe had been going on for more than five hours and 82-year-old John O'Brien had become convinced the gunman was insane and they would likely all end up dead.

Bengaluru has been put of high alert Monday following tweets on Twitter threatening a repeat of the hostage drama at a cafe in Australia's Sydney, Karnataka Home Minister K.J. George said.

Australian police said on Monday that they are monitoring alleged demands made on social media by hostages being held in a siege at a Sydney cafe and the "situation is contained in one area".

A man holding hostages in a Sydney cafe on Monday has demanded that a flag of the Islamic State group be delivered to him and warned that four bombs have been planted around the city, a report said.

Australian police locked down the centre of the country's biggest city on Monday after an armed assailant walked into a downtown Sydney cafe, took hostages and forced them to display an Islamic flag, igniting fears of a jihadist attack.

A joint Australian-British architect and his heavily pregnant Dutch wife were named by friends and media today as among those killed in the attack on an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall.

Two victims of a deadly siege in Sydney were being remembered on Tuesday at private memorial services, one week after a gunman took them hostage inside a downtown cafe.

Viswakanth Ankireddy, an Indian IT worker who was held hostage during the Sydney cafe siege on December 15, said Thursday that he is getting better day-by-day with his wife's support.

The siege at the Sydney cafe had been going on for more than five hours and 82-year-old John O'Brien had become convinced the gunman was insane and they would likely all end up dead.

Bengaluru has been put of high alert Monday following tweets on Twitter threatening a repeat of the hostage drama at a cafe in Australia's Sydney, Karnataka Home Minister K.J. George said.

Australian police said on Monday that they are monitoring alleged demands made on social media by hostages being held in a siege at a Sydney cafe and the "situation is contained in one area".

A man holding hostages in a Sydney cafe on Monday has demanded that a flag of the Islamic State group be delivered to him and warned that four bombs have been planted around the city, a report said.

Australian police locked down the centre of the country's biggest city on Monday after an armed assailant walked into a downtown Sydney cafe, took hostages and forced them to display an Islamic flag, igniting fears of a jihadist attack.

A joint Australian-British architect and his heavily pregnant Dutch wife were named by friends and media today as among those killed in the attack on an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall.