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

The UK terror threat is now classed as severe, so the Metropolitan Police appear to be taking no chances with the safety of the six-months pregnant Duchess of Cambridge.

Peter Bromhead's take on the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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.

Facebook pages encouraging violence on behalf of Isis are among factors increasing NZ's official terrorism risk and leading to a recruitment drive for new spies.

'Je suis Aotearoa." It has a certain piquant charm and would get a great deal of public attention if it was chosen as the branding to unite New Zealanders of all hues, nationalities, races and....

A founder of Charlie Hebdo has accused its editor of “dragging the team” to their deaths by publishing provocative cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed.

Writer Salman Rushdie, who knows a thing or two about attacks on freedom of expression, calls them the But Brigade: those who deplored the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

The controversial anti-Islamic Pegida movement and terror attacks in neighbouring France are polarising Germany.

'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.

The Pentagon has played down the hacking of the US Central Command Twitter and YouTube sites, saying it's 'annoying', but just a 'prank'.

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

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.

After days of razing villages and massacres, Boko Haram finished the week with its most chilling atrocity.

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....

This week's assault on Paris does not fit into the mold of what we typically think of as a terrorist attack.

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.

Free speech is in the spotlight in the wake of the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that left 12 people dead and eight others injured.

A US judge has sentenced British hate preacher Abu Hamza to life behind bars for 11 terrorism and kidnapping convictions, calling his crimes that spanned the globe evil and barbaric.