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.

NZ's Islamic leaders fear widespread and indiscriminate recoil on the Islamic community following the "cowardly and shocking" attacks in Paris.

A New Zealander living in Paris has described seeing people "running around screaming" as terror attacks grips the city.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Vigils for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris are being held in Wellington and Auckland in the coming days.

One of three suspects in the massacre of 12 people at French magazine Charlie Hebdo has handed himself in to police after seeing his name on social media.

Kiwis in Paris say they've been shocked by the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, as PM John Key condemned it as an attack on the fourth estate.

Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper overnight, killing 12 people, including the paper's editor, before escaping in a getaway car.

Despite receiving numerous threats over cartoons of Muhammed, France's foremost satirical magazine never shied from attacking Islamic extremism.

About 200 police officers, 30 members of the armed forces, a helicopter and specialist dogs trained to sniff out their quarry.