Terrifying Stories

One of the Bondi Beach gunmen came to the attention of Australia's domestic intelligence agency six years ago for his close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State (IS) terrorism cell, the ABC understands. Earlier today police revealed the two Bondi Beach gunmen were a father and son: Naveed Akram, 24, who is in hospital under police guard; and Sajid Akram, 50, who died exchanging gunfire with office...

I didn’t expect anything unusual that night. It was late, the kind of late where the city feels half-forgotten, and I was running on muscle memory alone—same bus stop, same route, same tired thoughts looping in your head. The rain blurred the streetlights into soft halos, and the bus arrived right on time, groaning as it pulled to the curb. I boarded without thinking. That’s the dangerous thing ab...