Kristen Gelineau

He wrote that an attack in New Zealand would show that no place on Earth was safe and that even a country as far away as New Zealand is subject to mass immigration.

Eight dead children and a woman suffering from stab wounds were found inside a home in a northern Australian city on Friday, police said.

A swarm of heavily armed police stormed a cafe in the heart of downtown Sydney early Tuesday, ending a siege where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people hostage for more than 16 hours.

They stare out at a punishingly unbroken expanse of gray water that seems, at times, to blend into the clouds. Occasionally, they press their foreheads against the plane's windows so hard they leave grease marks, their eyes darting up and down, left and right, looking for something -- anything -- that could explain the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.