Joy, grief inspired by three women lifted into the headlines

You may just weep briefly in joy for Brianna Watts, 18 (left) a once homeless girl who worked hard and who, in recent days, has been told that she has been accepted at all 12 of the universities for which she applied. At the centre, Krista Noelle Madden, like many new mothers, appears to have fallen victim to postpartem depression. She is now accused of throwing her child off a cliff in North Carolina.  The baby survived and is said to be doing well. At the right is Anna Sorokin, a German woman who duped New York society into believing she was a European heiress even as she shook them down.