Prime Minister John Key said the latest attacks made it clear Isis terrorists were ramping up their efforts worldwide.

False reports of a gunman at the scene of Saturday's terror attack in Paris has caused panic among hundreds of mourners.

Deputy Prime Minister Bill English says France are "seeing the hard end of what happens when these people get some energy and momentum."

This could be the face of one of the Paris killers who allegedly posed as a refugee, as it emerges a woman may have been part of the terror squad.

Woman can be heard screaming: "I'm pregnant, please help me I'm going to drop out." WARNING: This article contains disturbing footage.

Man towed his mobile piano to a spot nearby the Bataclan and gave touching performance of John Lennon song.

The chilling words a Kiwi artist heard her daughter shout down the phone, as the pair desperately tried to find each other through the chaos unfolding.

Several hundred people turned up to Aotea Square in solidarity for the victims of those caught up in the violent attacks in France.

A French man who was outside the Stade de France when the attack occurred says his phone protected his head from the explosion.

Protester grabbed microphones and shouted feminist slogans in French and Arabic.

Andrew Alderson experiences the epicurean delights of the French capital from his fifth-floor house exchange.

A Romanian known as the "Queen of Thieves" and a gang of 15 others conducted a spate of robberies at Parisian landmarks while at least one security guard "turned a blind eye".

It's cheaper for Kiwis to spend a night at a hotel in Paris than it is for an overnight stay in Queenstown, a survey has found.

Its a classic rags to riches story that's almost too much of a cliché to be true, but an Israeli teenager with no experience strode down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week.

Paris called an end to foreign tourists' love affair with padlocks yesterday (Monday) by starting to dismantle all 45 tons of them from its famous Pont des Arts bridge for good.

Joanna Norris is chair of the New Zealand Media Freedom Committee and editor of the Press. The Canon Media Awards to be held on Friday celebrate media freedom.

A bitter row has erupted among top writers over the decision to award a top prize for freedom to Charlie Hebdo.

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.

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.

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.

Police are hunting the 'wife' of the Kosher supermarket hostage killer who is believed to be 'armed and dangerous' - and told officers she was radicalised by 'American's massacring innocents'.

Classmates of the youngest man identified as a suspect in yesterday's deadly Paris shooting say he was in class at the time of the attack.

In the Place de la Republique, 35,000 Parisians came out on a bitterly cold winter's night to rally in memory of the 12 people shot dead and the 11 injured.