Paris was plunged into panic when soldiers guarding the Louvre Museum shot an attacker who lunged at them with two machetes as the historic landmark went into lockdown.

Twelve arrests were made after overnight clashes between French police and about 100 people in Paris.

We ran our live blog all day following the events of the hostage situations and sieges in Paris.

Officials say that the gunmen responsible for the shooting dead of 12 people at a French satirical newspaper are still at large in Paris.

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Paris Hilton has paid $13,000 for the "world's smallest Pomeranian" dog.

Jermaine Jackson is encouraging Paris Jackson to spend time with her birth mother.

A sensational sprint finish saw Mark Cavendish claim the 22nd Tour de France stage success of his career in Brive-la-Gaillarde today.

Adele has hit back at Karl Largerfeld's "too fat" comment, insisting she is proud of her figure.

Adele has hit back at Karl Largerfeld's "too fat" comment - insisting she is proud of her figure.

Lionel Nallet talks to Ian Moriarty about Racing Metro’s ambitions in their first Heineken Cup.

The area under Paris' Eiffel Tower has been opened up to tourists again after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat and police combed through the famous monument looking for suspicious objects.

French farmers angry over financial woes today blocked the famed Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris and set hay on fire.

Cristiano Ronaldo has lost interest in Paris Hilton.

Leinster's Felipe Contepomi has been short-listed for the International Rugby Board World Player of the Year.

Jail-bound socialite Paris Hilton has kissed and made up with the veteran publicist she dumped over the weekend after blaming him for getting her into trouble with the law.

Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister who became a symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis for his role in deporting Jews during the Second World War, has died. He was 96.

Police were called to a party at Paris Hilton's mansion on Tuesday, after neighbours became annoyed at the constant flashing of paparazzi cameras.

About 200 students protested a new inside Paris’ Sorbonne University, which reopened today after being shuttered for six weeks during student demonstrations over a youth jobs law, school officials said.

Australian singer Kylie Minogue endured her last session of chemotherapy on Friday - but doctors have told her she will have to wait two months until they can determine if the treatment has been successful.

Elizabeth Hurley is such a big fan of the spaghetti bolognese at Paris' Hotel Ritz, she has vowed to make it her last meal should she ever receive a death sentence.

MONACO'S ailing Prince Rainier clung to life today, breathing through a respirator in an intensive care unit, with doctors refusing to say whether he might recover and his subjects praying that he will.

Prosecutors asked a court today to sentence a man accused of trying to shoot President Jacques Chirac in 2002 to six to eight years in prison as jurors began deliberating on a verdict.

Ulster and Leinster will face off in unfamiliar surroundings in today's M Donnelly Inter-provincial football final.

THE IRFU is faced with the unpalatable prospect of excluding one of the remaining three provinces from the Heineken Cup if Connacht win the Parker Pen Challenge Cup.

Derval O'Rourke rounded off a poor night for Irish athletics at the World Championship in Paris' Stade de France, finishing last in her heat of the 100m hurdles.

DISTRAUGHT relatives yesterday spoke of their last conversations with victims of the South Korean arson attacks.

STELLA McCartney showed she’s coming along as a starring new designer, giving Paris a summer ready-to-wear show that was as fresh and sweet as a summer's day.

The son of former French president Francois Mitterrand has walked out of Paris' La Sante prison after a bail of £500,000 was posted by his family and friends.