Dozens of heavily-armed police raided a flat in Molenbeek, Brussels, as they hunted for Salah Abdeslam, 26, (inset) one of three brothers believed to be at the heart of French massacres where129 people died on Friday. Special forces clambered across the roof and were seen firing tear gas through a Velux-style window to flush out a suspect who later came out on to a balcony with his arms up. On the street below huge numbers of police in balaclavas carrying machine guns surrounded the top floor flat and witnesses heard several bangs and small explosions during the two-hour armed stand-off. The Molenbeek mayor said today the siege ended with without any injuries. A hooded man was handcuffed and put in a car by plain-clothes police - the Belgian media claimed this man was Salah Abdeslam but the authorities have not confirmed this. Abdelsam has been the subject of a vast international manhunt but incredibly he was stopped and then released by French police guarding the Belgian border hours after the attacks.

Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, (left and top right) is one of the world's most wanted war criminals. He is from the Brussels district of Molenbeek, known as the 'jihadi capital of Europe', where the eight-strong killer squad who murdered 129 people in Paris are believed to have collected automatic weapons and suicide vests before driving into France in rented cars. Fugitive Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, 26, (pictured centre left) was stopped and then released by officers guarding the Belgian border hours after the attacks. His brother Ibrahim, 31, blew himself up in Paris and a third sibling Mohammed was arrested in Brussels. Parisian Omar Mostefai, 29, (bottom right) was one of the Bataclan suicide bombers where 89 died while Belgian Bilal Hadfi, 20, (top right) detonated his suicide vest at the Stade de France where three died. Ahmed Almuhamed (below left) travelled to France as an asylum seeker after being saved from a sinking migrant boat off Greece before bombing the Stade de France.

President Francois Hollande (centre in main picture) observed the silence at the French capital's Sorbonne University, in recognition of the large number of young people among the 132 dead. Another 352 were injured, scores of them seriously in a wave of deadly attacks which included suicide bomb attacks at the Stade de France, mass shootings at restaurants, cafes and bars and a massacre at Bataclan music hall. Hollande stood in a crowd of students, some with their heads bowed, others looking up defiantly.Crowds gathered at a makeshift monument at Republique Plaza in a neighborhood targeted by the attacks, where a banner reads 'Can't Scare Us.' Three people set up a French flag in front of the Carillon restaurant before people fell silent in front of the Carillon restaurant, the scene of one of the mass shootings on Friday.

French anti-terror police carried out a series of coordinated dawn raids on a number of addresses in Toulouse, Grenoble, Calais and a suburb of Paris known as Bobigny this morning (pictured inset). Local reports suggest at least three people have been taken into custody in the Toulouse raids. The raids come just hours after French fighter jets carried out a series of 'massive' air strikes on Raqqa, destroying a key ISIS command centre and a training camp in Syria.

Photographs have emerged on social media that appear to show the message 'From Paris, With Love' scrawled on U.S. Hellfire missiles and JDAM bombs destined for ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. is preparing to launch strikes at ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq, although it is not known the exact target. President Francoise Hollande told his people that the attacks were 'an act of war', and the French dropped 20 bombs on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, in Syria, on Sunday night, in retaliation.

Speakers at the Quiz A Muslim event (pictured) in Bedford included Taji Mustafah, of radical Islamic organisation Hizb-ut Tahrir, and Moazzem Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate and founder of campaign group CAGE, whose director called Jihadi John a 'beautiful young man'. The panellists said that there is an 'Islamic' duty to 'struggle' for an 'Islamic state', as 132 were executed in shootings and suicide bombings. They also suggested that Muslims should be able to determine UK law according to Shariah and the Qu'ran.

French fighter jets have carried out a series of 'massive' air strikes on Raqqa, destroying a key ISIS command centre and training camp in Syria. The heavy bombing raid comes just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, the defence ministry said. 'The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped,' the statement said. The operation, carried out in coordination with U.S. forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot and a training camp for fighters, it said. The revenge airstrikes in Syria comes as French police broadcast the name and image of Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, across Europe, warning that he is very dangerous. 'Do not intervene yourself,' his warrant says.

'Fans of The X Factor were left reeling on Sunday night after Olly Murs mistakenly revealed that Monica Michael would be leaving the competition before her fate was decided by the judges. The singer, a new presenter on the show this year along with Caroline Flack, was left red-faced after he told Michael that she'd be going straight home after he miscounted the four judges' deciding votes, and revealing she had the fewest public votes. Taking to Twitter straight away after the show finished, Murs wrote: 'I apologise to everyone tonight I made a massive f*** up at the end. It was so tense!! I'm still learning & hope that never happens again [sic]!''

Amateur pilot Phil Garvey, 56, his wife Ann, 55, their daughter Emily, 23, and youngest son Dan, 20, (all pictured main) were killed when their light aircraft crashed in heavy rain and high winds near Taunton. The family had taken off from Fairoaks Airport in Surrey and were just seven miles away from their destination, Dunkeswell Aerodrome in Devon, when the crash took place. They lived in Woking, Surrey and were members of the local St Dunstan's Catholic Church where Mr Garvey played guitar during services. Mr and Mrs Garvey, who were grandparents, had three older children, including a daughter Laura who is believed to live in the South West. Today, she posted several pictures of her family on Facebook and wrote: 'We are absolutely devastated and love you all so much xxx'. Left is a picture posted on Facebook by Mr Garvey when he got his new plane in 2013 and right is its crumpled remains.

The Overblue vessel, designed by Italian boat manufacturer Raffaele Grotti, boasts en-suite bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen and a flybridge for al fresco entertaining. After two years of development the company has just launched two models - a 44ft standard boat and a more luxurious 54ft version - with plans for a deluxe 64ft boat in the pipeline. Prices for the three-cabin Overblue 44 start at £240,000, cheaper than a small studio flat in London, but buyers can expect to spend at least £600,000 for the top spec 64ft model.

'From the age of nine I was a fat child. Though I later shed a lot of my boyhood blubber, I have never, except for a brief time in my late teens, been what anyone would call svelte,' writes BRIAN VINER. 'It was nurture rather than nature that had made me chubby. Between the ages of 11 and 15, I was downright rotund, what might now be called obese. For years I was careful to keep my T-shirt on in outdoor swimming pools.'

Amy Thornton, 28, from County Durham, saw her pictures of Oskar, five, and Erica (left and right), two, attract more than 34,000 'likes' from fans. Erica, received a diamond bracelet worth £170. The 28-year-old's children were even spotted by Kim, Kourtney and Khloé who sent her two dresses and a top from their baby boutique Kardashian Kids. In return the former call centre worker took pictures of her kids wearing the items and post them on Instagram.

An under-age Thai sex worker known as Nung (left), 15, was recently saved by not-for-profit organisation Destiny Rescue from a life of abuse, sometimes at the hands of Australian men. The rescue mission was planned by an organisation started by former Queensland electrician Tony Kirwin (left inset), and over 15 years his team have saved 1,300 girls from the seedy $6 billion industry. Nung was rescued by New Zealand agent Justin (inset right) last month in a major undercover operation (right).

The elderly couple spotted the young man sitting on a bench in the Lindberg Center, Atlanta, in a shirt and suit trousers, but unable to tie his tie. The elderly man taught him how to tie it before the train arrived. The Facebook photograph has already been liked more than 300,000 times and shared nearly 130,000 times since it was uploaded yesterday.

Irishman Joseph P. Griffin inadvertently created a hilarious vlog during his Las Vegas trip. The footage was uploaded to YouTube on November 13 by his son Evan. It has so far been viewed over 1.4m times and attracted over 200 comments. Pictured from left, Mr Griffin wanders down the Vegas strip, rides the Monorail and takes in the sights.

Police officer Moira Smith (right) was posthumously given the award after she gave her life helping to evacuate people out of the World Trade Center's Tower Two during the 2001 terrorist attacks - saving scores of people. But her husband James (inset, with his daughter in 2006) was left furious when Glamour revealed last week they were giving the same award to 66-year-old Jenner (left). Smith said the move was 'insulting' to the memory of his wife and has FedExed the 2001 Woman of Year Award back to the magazine with a scathing letter.

Joanna Boyles, 30, from Lewisburg, West Virginia, was 165lbs and verging on obese (left) after gaining weight while pregnant with her two sons Tucker, now five, and Peyton, four, On a typical day the mother-of-two would eat sugary cereal and granola bars, heaps of macaroni cheese, chocolate bars and pizza or cream-laden pasta. She started running and lifting weights at home to drop 45lbs and now has just 14 per cent body fat (right).

Adrian Woodyatt (inset left), 47, was accused of dragging down the neighbourhood in Gloucester after allowing the garden foliage to grow so out of control (main picture and inset right) that it was almost enveloping his semi-detached home. But, after failing to respond to council demands to trim back the weeds, Mr Woodyatt is now being forced to sell his property so taxpayers do not have to foot the bill. As the state of the gardens grew increasingly worse, Gloucester City Council decided to pay for the clean-up operation in a bid to stop the mess blighting the residential road. Officials are now attempting to recoup the money through the enforced sale. A neighbour of the empty house said: 'It has been a problem for ages and it is great news to see it being sold. Hopefully the next owner won't have a jungle in the back garden.'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - This horrifying footage shows the shocking moment a trade union leader in Mongolia sets himself alight to protest against the proposed sale of the country's coal mining industry to China. The unnamed trade unionist had called for a press conference in which he and others told the media about the appalling problems faced by miners in Mongolia. In a short mumbled statement he said: 'The government no longer supports our company, families of the workers are forced to starve, this is why I will burn myself for the people of Mongolia and our children.' He then doused himself in liquid before setting himself alight as the startled press pack reacted with horror to the unfolding drama.

Madam Cyn, as she was known, organised lurid sex parties in her house in south west London in the 1970s and 80s. A peer of the realm, barristers and vicars were alleged to be amongst her clientele. When her case came to trial in 1980 Ms Payne, pictured, was sentenced to 18 months in Holloway prison for running a brothel, a term that was later cut to six months.

Youngsters in the brightly-coloured orange t-shirts of the touring pub crawl night Carnage were out in the Deansgate area of Manchester last night. Worse for wear students were pictured struggling to stay upright and staggering into roads during the controversial annual night out. One reveller was later pictured being loaded into an ambulance by paramedics while police had to seize alcohol from others and keep some from falling in front of cars.

The illusion makes a black and white image of Dunstaburgh Castle in Northumberland appear coloured by desensitising your retina in to produce an effect known as afterimage. By staring at the false colour image (pictured left) for 30 seconds, the cone cells in your eyes become 'tired' and when the black and white picture (right) is restored, the remaining cone cells fill in the colours.

Snapper Zim Killgore taught a child a valuable lesson in road safety in a funny 'drive-by prank attack' at an unknown location in the U.S. As he comes up near the car, he grabs the child's feet, which he or she has had hanging out of the window while riding in the back seat. The child immediately withdraws its feet, and can be seen in the periphery staring after Mr Killgore as he speeds on down the road.

German photographer Mario Gerth, 38, spent seven years photographing tribal societies in Africa, including the Ethiopian Muris tribe where women have some of their bottom teeth removed so they can wear elaborate lip plates as a sign of beauty. 'The first thing that I noticed about the tribes was how extremely happy they all are,' he says. 'They live in such harsh environments, but they bring such colour and laughter to the land.' Pictured, three women, and two babies, from the Muris tribe.

The EasyJet flight, which landed at at Inverness Airport last week, approached the runway sideways while battling gale force winds of up to 80mph. During its decent, the plane can be seen swaying from side to side, making a lurch towards the right as it makes its final approach.

These dramatic pictures show the moment four gazelles waded into the jaws of death as they unknowingly trotted into a river packed with hungry crocodiles. The gazelles had been enjoying a drink with the herd when they separated and started to cross the crocodile-infested Mara River in Kenya. As they entered the river teaming with ravenous crocodiles, they ended up becoming dinner for the predators waiting for the annual Wildebeest migration.

The Escape Traveler XL is perfect for anyone who dreams of getting away from it all but hates the idea of pitching a tent. It comes with fully-equipped kitchen (top right) and living room (left) and can be kitted out with optional extras including a solar power system and a spa bathtub. The revolutionary home on wheels sleeps up to eight people in its luxury cabin-like interior.

Skipper, a 10-year-old Jack Russell, recently added touring round Europe in a van to his extensive travel adventures. He and his travelling partner Jon Taylor, 48, from Weston-under-Lizard, Shropshire, returned from a nine-week tour that took in France, Switzerland, Italy, Andorra and Spain. Along the way the dog explored the Leaning Tower of Pisa (top left), and saw breathtaking surroundings (top right). Previously to this, Skipper has sailed a 54ft yacht to the Caribbean and sat on a Harley Davidson at a French biker festival. From paddleboarding (top left) and relaxing on boats (bottom left), Skipper enjoys the high life. Next Jon plans to get a special box made for him so he can fit on the motorbike so they can tackle Route 66.