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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kiwi cartoonist Dylan Horrocks has spoken of the shock among the tight-knit global cartooning community following the massacre at Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo.

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.