Islamic State recruiters are urging women to abandon their comfortable lives and families to travel to the blood-soaked battlefields of Iraq and Syria.
A Sydney mother has abandoned her children, leaving them in their Western Sydney home while she fled to Syria, and is believed to have joined the Islamic State.
Sydney siege hostage Julie Taylor, who was pregnant at the time of the incident, has named her newborn child after her friend Katrina Dawson, who died in the Lindt cafe.
John Forbes Nash Jr., the brilliant Princeton University mathematician whose life story was the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind," has been killed in a car crash.