Gunman in Sydney Had Long History of Run-Ins With the Law

Sydney (CNN) — Australian authorities stormed the cafe where a self-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages early Tuesday, killing the gunman and ending a crisis that had paralyzed central Sydney for hours. They moved in more than 16 hours

Five people fled a central Sydney cafe Monday where a gunman is holding terrified hostages after displaying an Islamic flag at the window, triggering a lockdown in an area home to government and corporate headquarters.

A gunman took a group of more than a dozen people hostage inside a Lindt cafe in Sydney on Monday and forced them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing in the window. Police fired a volley of shells into the 

Sydney (CNN) — Australian authorities stormed the cafe where a self-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages early Tuesday, killing the gunman and ending a crisis that had paralyzed central Sydney for hours. They moved in more than 16 hours

Shortly after several citizens were taken hostage in a cafe in Sydney's central Martin Place, Uber's fares surged to four times the standard rates to encourage drivers to pick up passengers in the area; after a backlash on Twitter