A New Zealander who died in an avalanche in the French Alps was a “remarkable” woman and an accomplished alpinist and skier, colleagues say.

The drawn-out saga of the alleged fleecing of France's richest woman - a senile L'Oreal heiress - has finally come to court.

A New Zealander is among six skiers who went missing after being carried away by an avalanche during a trek in the French Alps.

America's most unrepentant news network has issued a string of on-air apologies for broadcasting erroneous information, including an expression of regret.

In 1992, two boys who would grow up slaughter 12 people at Charlie Hebdo, came home to find their mother lying dead in their council flat in Paris.

A Moroccan man in France was stabbed 17 times in front of his wife at his own home in what is described as a “horrible Islamophobic attack”.

Europe is on high alert following anti-terror raids and arrests of suspected Islamist militants.

Freedom of expression requires there to be a freedom not to say, not to publish certain things.

Derided as gutless and indecisive two weeks ago, Francois Hollande has gained admiration for the sure-footed leadership he has shown during France's greatest terrorism crisis.

Charlie Hebdo's cartoonist broke down as he explained why he drew Muhammad on the controversial front cover.

'You are a woman, we don't kill women.' A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo massacre recalls how she stared into the eyes of a gunman who'd shot her colleagues dead.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's new-found love of "free speech" was too much for surviving Hebdo cartoonist Bernard Holtrop to stomach, writes Brian Rudman.

From his hiding place, Lilian Lepere texted police vital information about Charlie Hedbo terrorists who were holed up in printers.

The hostage-taker who killed four people in a Paris supermarket siege was on a US terror watchlist.

Charlie Hebdo says it will "cede nothing" to terrorists - and has defiantly placed a new cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover.

New video footage has emerged which is believed to show the fugitive widow of one of the French gunmen at Istanbul Airport.

Startling accounts of the Vincennes supermarket siege from France's special forces have been told for the first time.

The hardest part - but also the most stirring - was watching the children. Little boys and girls, each clutching a tricolour emblazoned with the words "Je Suis Charlie" and singing.

The devastated father of France's most wanted woman has handed himself in to police, declaring: "That is my daughter."

The killings were fully justified and the victims deserved their fate, declared Amedy Coulibaly in a chilling Isis video.

There were some unlikely “Charlies” on yesterday’s march for democracy and freedom.

Zealots are dangerous because there is a deadness in their soul. To be human is to grapple with doubt, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Hayat Boumeddiene is now France's most wanted woman. Described as armed and dangerous, she has been on the run since her husband, Amedy Coulibaly, killed a trainee policewoman.

France has responded to the murderous assaults on journalists, police and Jews with an outpouring of grief and national unity, yet once the emotions recede it faces the harder task of neutralising....

When it comes to home-grown anti-Semitism, France leads the world, writes Stephen Pollard.

The first pictures of three of the four hostages killed in yesterday's kosher supermarket siege in Paris have emerged.

The wife of the Paris supermarket gunman may be in Syria, police sources have said.

Police were fed intelligence about the Charlie Hebdo gunmen’s hideout in Dammartin-en-Goele by a graphic designer hiding under a sink.