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.

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.

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

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.

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.