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.
Women are one step closer to being able to check a new partner's violent past as Pru Goward announces the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme and aims to pilot it in the next six to 12 months.