OUR world seems ever more defined by threat. 

Your editorial (‘Attack will not change our beliefs - the right to free speech’, February 16) about recent gun attacks in Copenhagen perceptively refers to the rise in anti-semitism.

The suspected gunman who carried out the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22 year old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, Danish authorities have said.

A man shot dead by Danish police early today is likely to have been behind the shootings at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen, an investigator says.

A man has died after at least one gunman opened fire on a cafe in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, which was hosting a freedom of speech debate.

THE referendum on marriage equality is still some months away, but even at this stage of the debate, especially the online and often anonymous tirade and counter tirade offered as rational discourse, is sobering and disheartening.

Amid the hype and bluster surrounding the Six Nations launch, the French provided a moment of context and a sharp dose of reality.

THE most remarkable thing about Minister for Health Leo Varadkar’s yes-I’m-gay announcement yesterday was that he felt the need to make it at all.

Everyone who marched in Paris or elsewhere did so for their own

Nearly 5,000 police officers have been deployed to protect Jewish schools across France as the country remains on the highest state of alert after last week's terror attacks.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor has said.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor said.

Details of how the police rescued hostages without a single loss to civilian life in the French terror attacks have emerged.

Key members of the French government will meet today to decide on new measures aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks in Paris that saw a massacre of 12 people at a satirical newspaper, and a supermarket bloodbath that left four hostages dead.

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

A minute's silence has been observed across France and around the world in solidarity with those affected by the Charlie Hebdo massacre.