Nick Miller

Nick Miller

Nick Miller is Europe correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Queen Elizabeth received miniature Game of Thrones throne among annual gifts haul

Nick Miller London: What do you give the Queen who has everything? A miniature Game of Thrones throne, of course.

World leaders join 1 million people at historic march for Paris attack victims

Unity rally at the Place de la Republique in Paris in tribute to the 17 victims of a three-day killing spree by homegrown Islamists. The killings began on January 7 with an assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris.

Nick Miller More than a million people and dozens of world leaders were expected to march through Paris on Sunday in a historic display of global defiance against extremism after Islamist attacks that left 17...

French dropped surveillance of terrorist brothers six months before Charlie Hebdo attack

Surveillance of French terrorists Cherif Kouachi (left) and his brother Said was dropped six months before their deadly terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo office.

Nick Miller Surveillance of the Kouachi brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo attack had been called off only six months before the massacre because they were deemed low risk.

Analysis

New norm of terror no one ever gets used to as terrorism stakes its claim on our lives

The message:

Nick Miller The past three days in Paris have been extraordinary - as normal as they have become.

France reeling as Islamist terror threat roars back to life

Peace: But the world is facing the prospect of a reborn, renewed al-Qaeda threat.

Nick Miller The heart of the Republic resembles a war zone, its streets splashed with shattered glass.

Charlie Hebdo terrorist crisis comes to dramatic climax as special forces kill gunmen in Dammartin and Porte de Vincennes

French SWAT police surround the supermarket in east Paris before the assault.

Nick Miller The Charlie Hebdo terrorist crisis came to a dramatic climax on Friday, with simultaneous special forces raids ending two sieges amid explosions and sustained gunfire.

Charlie Hebdo shootings: Liberty, equality and an act of barbarity

Nick Miller and Tom Allard As the bells tolled from the towers of Notre Dame after a minute of silence for the victims of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Sofia offers half her umbrella in the slanted rain, huddling against the...

Charlie Hebdo shooting: Hostages held in massive police manhunt

French gendarmes secure the roundabout near the scene of the hostage taking in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris.

Nick Miller A hostage was being held as a manhunt for the men believed responsible for the Paris massacre late on Friday night [Australian time] closed in on a town north-east of the French capital.

Paris terrorist attack: France in mourning as police mount huge manhunt for Kouachi brothers

Hunting for terror suspects: Member of the French GIPN intervention police force secure a neighbourhood in Corcy, north-east of Paris. It sits next to the town of Longpont, which has been surrounded by police, according to reports.

Nick Miller France’s first day of mourning after its deadliest terrorist attack in living memory was marred by fear, rumour and violence, amid one of the biggest manhunts in the nation’s history.

Paris terror attack: how the day unfolded

The gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo office.

Nick Miller France's deadliest terrorist attack in half a century came in a hail of bullets, fired without hesitation or warning.

Paris attack: Thousands of Parisians gather in spontaneous demonstration, chant 'freedom of expression'

A man holds a candle and placard that reads in French,

Nick Miller Ten thousand singing, chanting, passionate Parisians have crammed into the square that symbolises their freedom, only blocks away from the magazine office where terrorists killed journalists and...

Paris attack: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has history of lampooning Islamists

No stranger to controversy ... Charlie Hebdo's publisher, Stephane Charbonnier, in 2012. A 24-year-old man faced trial for allegedly threatening to behead Charbonnier in June, 2013.

Nick Miller The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is no stranger to controversy, and has a history of tackling Islamist extremism within its pages.

Gunmen attack French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at Paris office, at least 12 dead

A policeman stands guard outside the French satirical weekly <i>Charlie Hebdo</i> in Paris in this February 9, 2006 file photo. The magazine has been targeted by Islamists before.

Nick Miller At least 12 people were killed in a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine firebombed in the past after publishing cartoons in 2011 joking about Muslim leaders.

Alleged victim of VIP paedophile ring Martin Allen lived on grounds of Australian high commission in London

Without a trace: Martin Allen disappeared in 1979 at the age of 15. His body has never been found.

Nick Miller A VIP paedophile ring, allegedly involving some British MPs, may be behind the disappearance of a boy in London in 1979.

Europe tries to ensure asylum seekers reach shore safely

Fleeing multitudes: Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa arrive at Augusta port in Sicily in September.

Nick Miller Europe's policy towards boat people is a stark contrast to Australia's, even if refugees' futures are uncertain.

Australian Grace Forrest inspires Pope Francis and other world religious leaders to sign pledge to eradicate slavery by 2020

Inspired pledge against slavery: Grace Forrest, 21, witnessed the signing of the document at the 16th-century Casina Pio IV villa in Vatican City.

Nick Miller A pledge to eradicate slavery by 2020 has been signed at an extraordinary gathering of world religious leaders in the Vatican.

The Beatles - History's greatest band is Liverpool's most lucrative brand

The Fab Four: The  Liverpool brand.

Nick Miller, Europe Correspondent There's no denying it - the Beatles dragged Liverpool from agony to ecstasy.

Russia shows a cold shoulder

Afraid of Russia: Warsaw tour guide Marek Sidorenko with the old car that he uses for the tours.

Nick Miller A newly assertive Russia is talking tough and sending its fleet, army and air force outside its borders, but the Cold War is over and unlikely to come back.

Australian and British baby monitors and webcams hacked as footage appears on a Russian website

CCTV camera.

Nick Miller Hackers are taking advantage of devices without security protection and weak password, privacy watchdog warns.