Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four hostages at a Paris kosher supermarket, rented a small suburban house the week before the attack and filled it with an arsenal of up-to-date weaponry, police have said.

Police union representative Christophe Crepin has told LCI television that it appeared that the gunman who took hostages at a kosher market in Paris has died after police stormed the building.

The two brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in Paris have been killed, according to reports, as police stormed both siege scenes.

One suspect sought in the deadly shooting at a French satirical paper has turned himself in, as police hunt for two heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida.

France’s president has urged the nation to stay united as it hunts gunmen who killed 12 people at the office of a satirical newspaper.

French police have identified the man arrested for shooting a newspaper assistant photographer and carrying out three other attacks.

French parliament approved a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children, a flagship reform pledge by president François Hollande which sparked often violent street protests and a rise in homophobic attacks.

Masked and armed thieves used the New Year’s Eve celebrations to rob the flagship Apple store in Paris.

Packages delivered to two Canadian schools contained a human foot and hand which which may belong a Chinese student whose alleged killer was captured during a worldwide manhunt this week.