REWIND: Best moments from the month that was

Some of the best photographs, clicked across the globe in the month of January.   A girl kisses her father, a conscript, after a ceremony marking enrolment for new conscripts in the......

9 bloody standoffs the world has seen

Two days after brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi barged into the office of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and slayed 12 people, including eight journalists and two cops, the French security......

Female suspect in French hostage situation 'on the run'

French police are on the hunt for the 26-year-old burqa-wearing, crossbow-shooting wife of kosher-grocery-store shooter and cop killer Amedy Coulibaly. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is believed......

French dual hostage crises OVER; 3 gunmen, 4 hostages killed

The dual hostage crises in France has come to an end with all three gunmen being killed in a synchronised offensive by authorities.The two brothers wanted for the shooting of 12 people at the......