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.

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.

Just days before the Lindt Café Siege, an anonymous caller rang authorities to alert them to gunman Man Haron Monis' website.

Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back.

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.

Amid the sea of flowers and mourners at Sydney's Martin Place, siege survivor Harriette Denny set up her own tribute for her slain boss, Tori Johnson.

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.