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

He undertook a dangerous 10-month journey to find his teenage son in Syria. Now a father is returning to help other families track their youngsters.

Confused Islamists hoping to disrupt international travel fall short of their goal when they hack UK bus timetable instead.

Man suspected of planning savage attack on Peshawar school that left 132 children dead is killed in police shoot out.

A 13-year-old Nigerian girl who was arrested with explosives strapped to her body told journalists that her parents volunteered her to take part in a suicide attack.

A Sydney man arrested on terrorism-related charges will spend Christmas behind bars.

Bright yellow sunflowers have been laid on the white coffin of Sydney cafe siege victim Tori Johnson at his funeral in Sydney.

A court has been told of fears the Sydney siege gunman could continue to influence his partner's extremist views from beyond the grave.

The wife of the gunman killed during the Lindt cafe siege could be taken into custody if her bail is revoked in a Sydney court.

It was 2am on Tuesday. They had been under his reign of terror for 16 hours and it was now, or never.

In five words, Ken Johnson - father of Sydney cafe siege victim Tori Johnson - summed up the emotion surrounding this week's Martin Place tragedy.

How many Pakistani children have to be slaughtered to stop a cricket match? We don't know, but it's more than 132, writes Paul Thomas.

The wounded children of Peshawar Army Public School paid tribute to the teachers who died saving their lives as Pakistan woke to the full horror of the Taliban massacre.

Horrifying pictures have emerged showing the Taliban gun squad who slaughtered 132 innocent children - as a new threat to kill schoolkids was revealed.

As Australia reels from the Sydney siege and its unhappy end, many will be wondering what can be done for the hostages stuck for hours with the gunman in the Lindt cafe.

The first lesson of the day for 10-year-old Irfan Shah at Peshawar's Army Public School was social studies.

A Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that killed 132 children has been widely condemned as un-Muslim, abhorrent, inhumane and disgusting.

The frontier city of Peshawar was once known as "the city of flowers".

The "fake sheik" behind the deadly Sydney cafe siege railed against Australian "terrorism" on his website a day before he took 17 people hostage.

PM John Key said the Sydney siege gunman highlighted the conundrum for authorities over protecting citizens against potential terrorism and over-stepping their powers.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will urgently review how a lone gunman known to federal police and ASIO was able to take hostages in a Sydney cafe.

There was Bali, but it was Westerners - not Australians, specifically - who were targeted.

The killing of hostages in Sydney has not deterred New Zealanders from flying to Australia.

Government MP Mark Mitchell argues that the Sydney hostage drama is 100 per cent justification for the anti-terrorist legislation he helped bulldoze through Parliament last week.

Monis' former partner Noleen Hayson Pal, 30, was stabbed 18 times and set alight outside her Werrington unit in April 2013.

Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty following the hostage taking in Sydney, thousands of ordinary Australians turned to social media to spread a message of unprecedented tolerance and solidarity.

These are the six words that say it all. "I'll be back at work tomorrow."

Whenever there is a dramatic event, social media instantly comes alive with comment and conjecture as facts vie for attention with fiction.