Australia's immigration minister rejects a call by an MP to close its borders to refugees from the Middle East, in the wake of the Paris attacks

Islamic State in a video threatens to attack Washington warning that the countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer same fate as France.

Senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned coalition countries of imminent assaults by the Islamic State group just one day before last week's deadly attacks in Paris killed 129 people, according to reports.

A total of 23 people are arrested and dozens of weapons seized in a series of raids on suspected Islamist militants across France, officials say.

French warplanes pounds the Islamic State group's de facto capital in Syria on Sunday, in the first such strikes since a wave of coordinated attacks claimed by the jihadists left 129 people dead in Paris - signalling its resolve in fight against the group.

Several Kalashnikovs are found in an abandoned car believed to have been used by some of the Paris attackers, French judicial sources say.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her France tour after the near-simultaneous attacks in Paris that left at least 129 dead.

White House hopeful Hillary Clinton calls for global unity to crush the Islamic State group, as the carnage in Paris took center stage at Saturday's Democratic presidential debate.

A train undergoing a trial on a new high-speed line from Paris to Strasbourg derails near the German border, killing 10 people, the local prefecture says.

French police identify first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by Islamic State group, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks.

Writeup of Partha Pratim Majumder, Bangladeshi writer and mime artist born in 1954 talking about the horrors of the Paris attacks.

The interview of renowned Bangladeshi artist Shahabuddin Ahmed, who is currently living in France with his family, is published in Anandabazar Patrika. The Daily Star is publishing a translated version of his accounts after the carnage in Paris that has killed at least 127 people.

Horror and panic spreads across Paris after simultaneous suicide bomb and gun attacks the city that left at least 127 dead and scores others injured.

The Islamic State jihadist group claims gun and bomb attacks in Paris that left more than 128 people dead in a statement posted online.

France's President Francois Hollande says the attacks in Paris that killed at least 127 people and wounded more than 180 are an "act of war" organised by Islamic State.

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strongly condemn the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 140 people and left many others injured.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Security Council condemn the attacks in Paris that killed at least 140 people.

People in Paris take to social media to find and offer refuge as the city was gripped by chaos following a string of attacks that left dozens dead.

Facebook launched a check-in feature to let people know that friends in Paris were safe after a series of bombings and shootings in the French capital killed at least 140 people on Friday.

A total of eight militants are killed, including seven by their suicide belts, during Friday's attacks in Paris that left at least 120 dead, a source close to the investigation says.