SYDNEY - The deadly siege began in the most incongruous of ways, on a sunny Monday morning inside a cheerful cafe in the heart of Australia's largest city. An Iranian-born gunman burst in, took 17 ...

The site of a 16-hour siege in a busy downtown Sydney district in December that left two hostages and a gunman dead is set to reopen. Martin Place Cafe will reopen on Friday, Lindt Australia CEO Steve ...

Hostage taker Man Monis and two others were killed in the siege. — -- Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the hostage taker in Monday’s siege in Sydney was a “deeply disturbed individual” ...

SYDNEY – Australia's prime minister said Thursday that a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe may have been preventable, as the chorus of critics demanding to know why the gunman was out on bail despite ...

SYDNEY — Australia’s prime minister acknowledged Wednesday that the nation’s security system failed to keep track of a gunman responsible for a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe and promised a transparent ...

SYDNEY - The manager of a Sydney cafe where a 16-hour siege ended in a hail of bullets early Tuesday was lauded for sacrificing his life by grabbing the gunman's shotgun, an act that reportedly helped ...

SYDNEY – Two victims of a deadly siege in Sydney were remembered Tuesday at private memorial services, one week after a gunman took them hostage inside a downtown cafe. The memorial for Tori Johnson ...

THE inquest into the deaths of Katrina Dawson, Tori Johnson and gunman Man Monis - all killed during the siege at the Lindt Cafe at Martin Place - will begin on January 29. In what is expected to be a ...