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Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. They singled out contributors by name before shooting them, then fled. France immediately went into deep mourning. Police caught up with the gunmen two days later outside Paris, where they were holed up with a hostage in a printworks. The gunmen died in the subsequent shoot-out; the hostage survived. At the same time, an apparent associate of the gunmen who'd already shot a policewoman took more hostages in a Jewish food shop in eastern Paris. He too died -- along with four of his hostages, though some survived. We assess the state of communal relations in France.

Also in the programme: anti-Islamisation marches in Germany; Queen Elizabeth's son Prince Andrew is implicated in a sex scandal - he denies involvement; President Obama begins his last two years in office facing a universally hostile Congress; the end of an era in Sri Lanka; and the skills some international footballers just don't possess.