Three people dead: a barrister and mother of three young children, a café manager and a deeply troubled and threatening man with a gun.
An unknowable number of lives were profoundly affected for the worse last night after the traumatic events in the Lindt café in Martin Place: family, friends, the freed hostages, police, colleagues and the broader community.
And then there was the global newspaper mogul gloating about what one of his newspapers did.
What can we say?
• Guardian: The Pakistan Taliban horror … The Nobel Peace prize-winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban two years ago for speaking out in favour of education for girls, said the Peshawar attack had left her heartbroken. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this.” Even the Afghan Taliban condemned the attack as “against Islam” …
• Guardian: John Kerry: Pakistan school attack is ‘gut wrenching’ – video
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