INTERNATIONAL

Huge crowds and some 40 world leaders are taking part in a unity march in Paris after 17 people were killed during three days of deadly attacks. More than a million are expected to march through the streets. “Paris is the capital of the world today,” French leader Francois Hollande said. “The whole country will rise up.” The marchers hope ...

Thousands of people have been attending the funerals of eight Australian children found dead in the north-eastern city of Cairns last month. The service is called Keriba Omasker, which means “our children” in the ancestral language of the children. Attending is Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who tweeted: “Today in Cairns. Sad beyond words. Keriba Omasker.” The mother of seven of ...

Police in France are hunting for any accomplices of the gunmen who killed 17 people in two days of terror attacks. One key figure is Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed when police stormed a supermarket in Paris on Friday. She was said to be with Coulibaly when a policewoman was killed and is described as ...

A gunman has seized hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris as police in northern France have cornered the two Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects. A police officer told the BBC that two people were killed after a gunman believed to be the killer of a policewoman in Montrouge entered the supermarket near Porte de Vincennes. Armed police have flooded the ...

“Pings” have been detected in the Java Sea which could have come from the “black box” flight recorders of AirAsia flight QZ8501, officials say. The commander of the Indonesian armed forces, Gen Moeldoko, told the BBC divers had been sent to investigate. The pings were heard near where the plane’s tail was found. Officials say the black box could have ...

A huge manhunt for the two suspected gunmen in Wednesday’s deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine has entered its third day. French police are concentrating their search in a rural area of Picardy north-east of Paris where the two men reportedly robbed a petrol station. For a second night, vigils were held in Paris for the 12 victims of the ...

The two main suspects in the Islamist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris are said to have robbed a service station in the north of France. Anti-terrorism police have converged on an area near Villers-Cotterets where the gunmen were reported by French media to have stolen food and petrol. France has observed a minute’s silence for the 12 people ...

French police have named two brothers as suspects in the attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, as a manhunt continues. They issued photos of Cherif and Said Kouachi, said to be “armed and dangerous”, and arrest warrants. A third suspect reportedly surrendered. France is holding a day of mourning for the 12 people killed in the ...

Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazine’s well-known cartoonists, including its editor, were among those killed, as well as two police officers. A major police operation is under way to find three gunmen who fled by car. President Francois Hollande said ...

The tail of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 has been found in the Java Sea, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue has said. The tail houses the “black boxes” – the voice and flight data recorders – which could give investigators clues as to the cause of the crash. The aircraft was en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore on ...