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.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the west African nation of Niger over French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.

At least four people have died and dozens have been wounded in violent protests in Niger against French newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria released a video in which its leader praises deadly attacks in Paris last week, a monitoring group said.

Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the paper depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

World leaders have joined tens of thousands of people in a giant rally of national unity to honour the 17 victims of the Paris terror attacks.

Security forces dramatically ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical magazine, and an associate who seized a kosher supermarket to try to help them escape.

Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen tonight claimed it had directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris “as revenge for the honour” of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

A massive manhunt has been launched for three fugitive gunmen who carried out a deadly terror attack on a French satirical magazine, killing 12 people.

A Muslim mob in Pakistan has beaten to death a Christian couple and burned their bodies in a brick kiln where they worked for allegedly desecrating the Koran.

An Iranian actress and political reformer has been jailed for 18 months on security charges in another sign of the tension between Iran’s hard-line judiciary and calls for greater openness by new president Hassan Rouhani.

Ofcom has fined Al Ehya Digital Television £85,000 (€99,000) for broadcasting statements that it was acceptable to murder any person thought to have shown disrespect to the Prophet Mohammed.

The High Court has heard an Algerian man wanted on a terrorism charge in the United States went on hunger strike in Cork Prison while awaiting trial there.

America’s sweeping surveillance programmes have foiled 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, according to the director of the National Security Agency.

A date has been set for the extradition hearing of an Algerian man who is wanted in the US on international terrorism charges.

POPE Benedict XVI has a reputation as a charming and shy man who is also deeply conservative in his outlook and teaching.

Pope Benedict XVI has a reputation as a charming and shy man who is also deeply conservative in his outlook and teaching.

Syrian warplanes bombed rebel areas near Damascus today as President Bashar Assad’s troops battled opposition fighters for control of the road linking the capital to the country’s largest airport.

Three people have been killed and 21 others injured by a car bomb blast south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said today.

A wave of bombings has left at least 43 people dead in Iraq.

Angela Merkel has said Islam has become a part of Germany and is urging her fellow citizens to show tolerance for Muslims.

Pakistan has tried to distance itself from the offer by one of its cabinet ministers to pay anyone who kills the maker of the anti-Islam film.

Pakistan yesterday distanced itself from a cabinet minister’s bounty for killing the maker of anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims as protests against the movie continued from Turkey to Hong Kong.

A Pakistani Cabinet minister has today offered a US$100,000 reward for the death of the US filmmaker whose movie features a depiction of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

Dozens of people have been injured in a clash in Bangladesh's capital between police and hundreds of Muslims who were protesting a film produced in the US that denigrates the Prophet Mohammed.

At least 15 people have been killed in Pakistan in clashes during protests over an anti-Muslim film.

A driver for a Pakistani TV reporter has been reported killed when police fired to disperse protesters against an anti-Islam film who were torching a cinema in the north-west city of Peshawar.

Tunisia’s government has banned any protests planned for tomorrow against a French satirical weekly’s publication of lewd, crude caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

An actress in the anti-Islamic film that sparked violent protests in the Muslim world is suing the reputed producer.

A French magazine has published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed claiming the right to free speech even as global tension grew over the film insulting to Islam.

The US has temporarily closed its consulate in Indonesia’s third-largest city due to ongoing protests over an anti-Islam film produced in America.

France’s prime minister said today that a planned demonstration by people angry over a film produced in the United States which insults the Prophet Mohammed will not be allowed to go ahead.

The government in Bangladesh has blocked YouTube to prevent people from seeing an anti-Islam video produced in the US ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed.

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early today, killing at least nine people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed.

Protesters in Afghanistan and Indonesia burnt US flags and chanted “Death to America” in renewed demonstrations over a film mocking Prophet Mohammed, as Pakistan blocked YouTube access to the film that has unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world.

Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam video broke through a barricade near the US consulate in the southern city of Karachi yesterday, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured.

Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt’s president.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet today, targeting British and German embassies and clashing with security forces around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

The US ambassador and three other Americans have been killed in an attack on an US consulate in Libya by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

Pakistani authorities arrested a Christian girl and are investigating whether she violated the country’s strict blasphemy laws after furious neighbours surrounded her house, a police officer said yesterday.

At least 10 people have been injured when a suicide car bomb exploded in a Damascus suburb and damaged one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines.

Two Somalian brothers have been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, the country’s security service said today.

Four alleged terrorists targeted Danish Crown Prince Frederik as part of their planned revenge attack on a newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a court heard today.

The trial of four Swedes accused of plotting a revenge attack on a Danish newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed has started in Denmark.