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Man towed his mobile piano to a spot nearby the Bataclan and gave touching performance of John Lennon song.

The chilling words a Kiwi artist heard her daughter shout down the phone, as the pair desperately tried to find each other through the chaos unfolding.

Several hundred people turned up to Aotea Square in solidarity for the victims of those caught up in the violent attacks in France.

A French man who was outside the Stade de France when the attack occurred says his phone protected his head from the explosion.

NZ's Islamic leaders fear widespread and indiscriminate recoil on the Islamic community following the "cowardly and shocking" attacks in Paris.

A New Zealander living in Paris has described seeing people "running around screaming" as terror attacks grips the city.

Protester grabbed microphones and shouted feminist slogans in French and Arabic.

Andrew Alderson experiences the epicurean delights of the French capital from his fifth-floor house exchange.

Its a classic rags to riches story that's almost too much of a cliché to be true, but an Israeli teenager with no experience strode down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week.

Paris called an end to foreign tourists' love affair with padlocks yesterday (Monday) by starting to dismantle all 45 tons of them from its famous Pont des Arts bridge for good.

Joanna Norris is chair of the New Zealand Media Freedom Committee and editor of the Press. The Canon Media Awards to be held on Friday celebrate media freedom.

A bitter row has erupted among top writers over the decision to award a top prize for freedom to Charlie Hebdo.

The devastated father of France's most wanted woman has handed himself in to police, declaring: "That is my daughter."

The killings were fully justified and the victims deserved their fate, declared Amedy Coulibaly in a chilling Isis video.

There were some unlikely “Charlies” on yesterday’s march for democracy and freedom.

Police were fed intelligence about the Charlie Hebdo gunmen’s hideout in Dammartin-en-Goele by a graphic designer hiding under a sink.

Terrified shoppers hid in a freezing cold storage room for five hours after Islamic terrorists stormed a Paris supermarket.

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'.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.