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Fearless France: the muse of Paris couture

This season’s catwalk shows were the boldest, bravest and most forward-looking the city has seen for ages.

Beware of bigotry veiled as satire

‘Charlie’ represents a hierarchy of Western ideals to which not everyone subscribes.

Charlie Hebdo sticks to its pencils

The magazine has shown in its defiant "survivor" edition that it remains unbowed, printing five million copies despite a readership of just 60 000.

Charlie Hebdo survivor: ‘I didn’t want to stare death in the face’

Sigolène Vinson survived the attack on the magazine and has given a chilling account of how one of the terrorist gunmen spared her life.

Editorial: Bring back our courage

We saw that African lives were less important than those of Europeans. Yet what have we done as Africans for the world to see that we value our own?

No, Charlie, free speech has its limits

Extremists – aka cartoonists – poured gunpowder over a simmering racist fire.

The grim genesis of the Charlie attacks

Ending economic and political alienation can bring enlightenment to disaffected Muslims.

Speaking at an investment conference in Riyadh, due to end on Thursday, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged there would be “no rupture” in ties with Ankara. (Reuters)

Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack

The terrorist organisation says it was responsible for the attack that saw 17 people killed, as the latest edition of the satirical weekly sold out.

Intolerance and fundamentalism are the real enemies

The Charlie Hebdo attack was a result of our unwillingness and inability to understand and appreciate the beliefs of others, writes Alleyn Diesel.

Prophet Muhammad claims he is Charlie on front page

‘Charlie Hebdo’ is to release its latest edition with a cartoon depicting the Islamic prophet holding a placard saying "Je suis Charlie".

“Whiteness is comprised of so much nuance as to be invisible … But blackness is amorphous.”

France versus Nigeria: Why African lives matter less

The killings at ‘Charlie Hebdo’ trumped the deaths in Baga because the Western world doesn’t know how to make sense of Africa, writes Verashni Pillay.

Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes

Charlie Hebdo suspects killed as police storm hostage sites

Seven people were killed, including three gunmen, after police initiated twin assaults at two locations in the hunt for the Charlie Hebdo attackers.

Remaining Charlie Hebdo staff crack on with new issue

Fellow French newspaper offers Charlie Hebdo massacre survivors premisies to start working on new issue to come out next Wednesday.

Anti-immigration demonstrations in Dresden

Charlie Hebdo attacks set to deepen cultural rifts in Europe

Amid protests against immigration in Germany, Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiment could rise in Europe, following the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

Danish paper won’t republish Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Despite it being the publication that ran the first cartoon of Mohammed that sparked violence 10 years ago, "Jyllands-Posten" fears for its safety.

Charlie Hebdo was an equal opportunity offender

Let’s not sacralise Charlie Hebdo

The essence of Charlie Hebdo was to express the inexpressible in images with the power to shock and offend.

#JeSuisCharlie: The fear of violent retaliation

Armed only with humour as a weapon, satire wages a brave but dangerous and, in the case of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, deadly war against censorship.

I am Charlie Hebdo, just like I am everyone

If we are all Charlie Hebdo because we do not stand for media that is oppressed, then we must all be oppressed as a result, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee

Editorial: Let us all be Charlie

As we continue to reel from the horrific massacre in Paris, let us all be Charlie – a new byword for global solidarity against the tyranny of fear.