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.

About 1.6m people are estimated to have marched in the centre of Paris. They marched "for the Republic", "against hatred" and "for history".

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.

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.

Terrified shoppers hid in a freezing cold storage room for five hours after Islamic terrorists stormed a Paris supermarket.

Two days of manhunts and sieges came to an abrupt and violent end in the space of just five minutes.

Kiwi expat Amy Connell who lives in Claremont-Ferrand with her rugby player partner Fritz Lee said the backlash from the shootings in Paris is already being felt there.

Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, was reportedly the main target of the attack as the magazine's editor and chief cartoonist.

"What happened was disgusting. We don't like the police: they give us a hard time. But it's another thing walking into an office and killing people just like that in the name of God."

When a masked gunman burst into the Charlie Hebdo editorial meeting shouting "Allahu akbar" and fired off a hail of bullets, journalist Laurent Leger threw himself behind a corner table and....

More than 100 people have turned out to a vigil at Aotea Square in downtown Auckland paying tribute to those killed in the French shooting this week.

Brothers suspected of terror attacks remain at large as search of vast forest where they are thought to have fled is suspended.

WARNING: Graphic image - Photos from the scene of France's worst terrorist attack in 50 years released, showing the devastation caused by jihadi brothers.

The "loser" brothers who turned into mass-killers, and how the police thought they were too old to be a threat.

The two brothers named by French authorities as chief suspects in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris were on the U.S. no-fly list.