The New Zealand Jewish Council released a statement in which it 'unequivocally condemned' the terrorist attacks in Paris.

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.

A security alert is over at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport after a threat was directed at Tigerair Australia, forcing the evacuation of passengers from a terminal and the cancellation of flights.

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'.

The radical preacher was convicted of trying to set up al-Qaeda training camp

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

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.

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.

The Maori Party distanced itself from former candidate Derek Fox after he controversially blamed the victims of the Paris terror attacks for their deaths.

Holding signs and posters aloft, more than 200 people gathered at a vigil in Wellington last night to "share their sorrow" following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.

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

The aim of those who attacked Charlie Hebdo was to silence the magazine, but the thousands who gathered in public squares are thumbing their noses at that notion.

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.

Dressed from head to toe in black, two heavily armed gunmen emerge from their small black Citroen at 11.20am on a chilly and dry Paris day.

Even as a great many of Charlie Hebdo's staff lie dead, the values they represent are stronger, and ideally better understood, than ever, writes Joanna Norris.

New Zealand broadcaster Derek Fox has been criticised on social media for blaming the victims of the Paris terror attack.

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.

"We must stand robustly against anyone who would stifle freedom of expression," writes Professor Bill Durodie.

Thousands of people have flooded Paris’ Place de la Republique in a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

As gunman ran out of Charle Hebdo office, he raised his right index finger in a gesture adopted by radical Islamists.

Artists around the world respond to the Charlie Hebdo shooting as #JeSuisCharlie sweeps Twitter.

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.