Thousands of people will gather at events around the globe tomorrow to remember the millions killed in the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides.

French security forces will get better weapons and protection to fight terror and the country will hire 2,600 new counter-terrorism officers, the prime minister has announced.

Four men with ties to one of the gunmen responsible for three days of terror in Paris are the first to be charged in connection with the attacks that left 20 people dead, including three attackers, the chief Paris prosecutor has said.

French police have released three of the 12 suspects arrested in an anti-terror sweep following the attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists that killed 17 people and put Europe on high alert.

French police have released three of the 12 suspects arrested in an anti-terror sweep following the attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists that killed 17 people and put Europe on high alert.

Widening a European counter-terrorism dragnet, Greek authorities detained four terrorism suspects today, including a man believed to be the ringleader of a Belgian jihadi cell.

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.

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.

France has ordered 10,000 troops on to the streets to protect sensitive sites - half of them to guard Jewish schools – as it hunts for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorised the nation.

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.

FRENCH media estimate up to 3m took part in the Paris rally for unity against terrorism — more than the numbers who took to the capital’s streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in the Second World War.

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.

Five people detained in connection with the terror attacks in France have been released from custody, the Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman said.

A huge security operation is being prepared ahead of unity marches in France, as the hunt for a fugitive linked to the Paris massacres took a new twist.

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.

French detectives are continuing to search for fugitives suspected to have been involved in the Paris massacres, as details of how police foiled the terrorists’ operations have begun to unfold.

The dead brothers believed to have massacred 12 people in Paris were poverty-stricken orphans set on the path to terrorism by a radical preacher.

As the French hostage crisis came to a bloody end last night with the loss of 20 lives, al-Qaeda claimed it had directed the attack against the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in Paris "as revenge for the honour" of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

President Francois Hollande warned that the danger to France, home to the European Union’s biggest communities of both Muslims and Jews, was not over yet.

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.

French President Francois Hollande has called on the country to “remain vigilant” as the hostage crisis which started at the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre came to a bloody end with the loss of at least 20 lives.

The brothers who are suspected of carrying out Wednesday's shootings at the offices of satirical Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday are reportedly holed up in a printworks building on the outskirts of Paris.

New security measures, including retaining information on everyone who takes a flight into or out of the EU, are back on the agenda following the brutal murders in Paris.

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.

The survivor of the sinking of the Tit Bonhomme and a daughter of missing skipper Michael Hayes lay five bouquets of roses in the water at Union Hall pier last night, one for each life lost.

Libyan rebel fighters have captured Muammar Gaddafi’s foreign minister, according to a rebel official.

MOHAMED HOMOS scored the only goal as Egypt claimed a memorable Confederations Cup victory over Italy in Johannesburg last night.

Somali pirates who hijacked Saudi oil super-tanker Sirius Star yesterday demanded $25 million (€19.9m) in ransom and set a 10-day deadline amid mounting calls for tougher action on sea bandits.

THE Kenyan family of presidential hopeful Barack Obama awoke yesterday to phone calls from around the world and throngs of journalists outside their door all wanting to know one thing — what was their take on the US presidential race.

Two members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group who were detained in 2002 have been released, Singapore said today.

LIAM REALE threw something of a cloud over Alistair Cragg’s European championship ambitions when he outsmarted the European indoor 3,000m champion and then held him off comfortably in the finishing straight to land the 1,500m title at the Woodies DIY national track and field championships at Morton Stadium yesterday.

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CHRISTIAN HOUSE (Recycling.co.uk) held off the challenge of American Danny Pate (TIAA-CREF) to win the FBD Insurance Ras in the tightest finish in the history of the event when the race ended in the seaside down of Skerries yesterday.

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Four men accused of plotting to murder passengers on London’s transport network in the July 21 failed suicide attacks, appeared in court for the first time today.

Three alleged would-be suicide bombers will appear in court today charged with plotting to murder passengers on the London transport system.

ON Tuesday, October 14, you published a letter from John K Kidney indicating that he would like the name of Cobh changed to “Queenshaven.”

Everton’s only worry for the visit of troubled Leeds tomorrow is defender Alan Stubbs, who hurt his leg in the 2-1 midweek win at Bolton.

New boy Brian McBride could solve Everton’s striking problems as they bid to bounce back from their FA Cup embarrassment at Tottenham on Sunday.

Everton have agreed loan deals for United States international striker Brian McBride and Egypt defender Ibrahim Said, subject to work permits.

Egypt defender Ibrahim Said is set to arrive on loan at Everton when the transfer window opens next week.

EVERTON manager David Moyes has denied lining up Celtic’s 22-year-old Republic of Ireland midfielder Colin Healy to move to Goodison when the transfer window opens next month.