The fate of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, remains unknown after a massive police raid in Paris that left at least two dead yesterday.
Police believed the main suspect suspect was in an apartment in Saint-Denis to the north of Paris, triggering a ferocious seven-hour shootout there with police.
At least two people were killed - a woman thought to have blown herself up with a suicide vest, and another body that was found riddled with bullets.
The second person has not yet been identified, according to the prosecutor.
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Islamic State claims it has executed one Chinese and one Norwegian hostage.
China has promised to "bring to justice" those responsible.
Fan Jinghui - who was kidnapped in September - is the first person from his country to be killed by the terror group.
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A Muslim woman has been wounded with a box cutter in Marseille in an apparent revenge attack following the terrorist killings in Paris.
A Jewish teacher has also been stabbed in the city by three men claiming to be supporters of IS.
The attacks have been described as "cowardly" by France's interior minister.
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A new report has found that black people in Ireland continue to experience racist violence and harassment on a constant basis.
The Afrophobia study claims that attacks usually take place in public and leave children and women particularly vulnerable.
The work was commissioned by the European Network Against Racism which says it received 189 confidential complaints over the past two years - that is three times more than the number reported to gardaí.
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The man serving a life sentence for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin will try and have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice today.
Brian Meehan from Crumlin in Dublin claims “new or newly discovered facts" came to light during the 2001 trial of notorious criminal John Gilligan.
Brian Meehan was jailed for life following a 31-day trial in the Special Criminal Court three years later.
