Hasna Aitboulahcen, who it is thought blew herself up during the police raid in St Denis on Wednesday, was a 'model kid', according to a schoolfriend of hers.

The friend, named only as Khemissa, said Aitboulahcen had been a normal girl at school, getting good grades, but that she had gone through a bad patch, being moved between foster families.

She is said to have been a 'party girl' who drank and smoked weed until very recently.

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Tributes have been paid to the 129 people who lost their lives in the Paris terror attacks. French authorities have identified all the victims, many of them young concert-goers, but have not released a full list.

This page lists all the victims for whom the BBC has details; further photographs and information will be added as they become available.

Gunmen have launched an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali's capital, Bamako.

Two people have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees in "a hostage-taking situation", the hotel's owners said in a statement.  

There are reports of automatic gunfire inside the building, which is popular with expats.

You can follow the latest developments in Mali on our BBC Africa live page.

A third body was found at the scene of  the police raids at the Rue Cormillon apartment in the Saint Denis suburb of Paris, the Paris prosecutor says.

He has also confirmed that a woman was among the three people killed, and a passport bearing the name Hasna Aitboulahcen was found in a handbag at the site. 

One of the bodies has been identified as 'ringleader' of the attacks, Abaaoud Abdelhamid.

At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the U.S. intelligence community, US officials told Reuters.

At least one was also on a no-fly list, officials said.

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EU ministers are arriving for the emergency talks in Brussels following the Paris attacks.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira have been talking to the press before the meeting.

Justice and interior ministers will be discussing security measures - including reducing the trafficking of firearms, the reinforcement of controls at external borders, and blocking terrorist financing.

France's national police chief says the whereabouts of a key fugitive in last week's Paris attacks is unclear. 

Jean-Marc Falcone, speaking Friday on France-Info radio, said he is unable to say if Salah Abdeslam could be back on French territory.   

"We can't say anything about the exact geographic situation of that individual,'' he said. 

Salah Abdeslam is being sought as a suspected accomplice in the attacks.   

European officials earlier acknowledged that French police stopped Abdeslam the morning after Friday's attacks at the Belgian border but then let him go. 

His brother Brahim was among seven suicide bombers in the attacks.

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The alleged organiser of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was seen drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis with several men outside his flat after the killings, witnesses say.

"They were there like smoking joints and drinking beers - they are often in the street so I know them, I know them", one witness told Sky News.

Another witness told the Daily Mail: "He was sitting in the street with a bottle of whisky and he offered some to me".

"I only realised who he was afterwards" they added.

 Abaaoud was killed during a police raid on his flat in St Denis on Wednesday.

France is demanding that EU citizens who enter the Schengen free travel zone should face the same stringent checks as non-EU travellers. It is also calling for easier sharing of airline passenger data to help track suspected extremists.

This comes after it emerged that the alleged organiser of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, crossed back into France from Syria without being detected.

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A group of "artists, anonymous citizens, free individuals" in France are calling on people to make "noise and light" at 21:20 tonight to mark exactly a week since the Paris attacks.

They urge people to "turn on lights, light candles, occupy our cafes, our streets, our streets, our cities, play music".

"We will do this simple act together to demonstrate, again, that culture and the light of hope and brotherhood will continue to shine and shine", they say in a letter published by the Huffington Post, external.

The French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has arrived in Brussels and has some strong words for his European partners.

"It is urgent that Europe wakes up, organises itself and defends itself against the terrorist threat" he says.

He says Europe must make counter-terror decisions "after wasting too much time".

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A leaked document written by one of the UK's most senior police officers has warned that police budget cuts could reduce the country's ability to deal with a Paris-style attacks.

The restricted document, Implications of the Paris Attack for UK Police Preparedness, prepared for the UK's Home Secretary Theresa May, says the ability to mobilise large numbers of officers would "reduce very significantly across the country".

The Home Office said it would not comment on a leaked document.

In addition to the EU security talks in Brussels, there's also activity at the UN where France is preparing a draft security council resolution on how to deal with Islamic State.

French Ambassador Francois Delattre says he wants "all member states to take all necessary measures" to defeat IS. He is hopeful of securing Russian and Chinese support in the Security Council too - who have both also lost citizens in IS attacks.

While EU ministers are due to meet later to discuss tackling the security threat posed by Islamic State extremists, Russian politicians are also meeting to discuss combating terrorism, as the BBC's Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenburg reports.

Since the attacks on Paris the city has been in a state of shock, mourning the loss of life.

Across the French capital people have been taking part in vigils to commemorate those who lost their lives.

Some Parisians spoke to BBC news about how they feel the city is coping.

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Le Parisien newspaper, external is reporting that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to be the ringleader of the Paris attacks was filmed in the Paris metro the night of the attacks.

The paper says he was captured on CCTV cameras at the Croix de Chavaux station in the eastern district of Montreuil on Line 9 of the Metro.. The footage places him near to the Seat car found there that was used by the jihadists who attacked bars and restaurants, killing dozens. 

Abaaoud was one of those killed in Wednesday's police operation in a Paris suburb, according to French authorities.

The aftermath of the Paris attacks continues to attract widespread media coverage - and there is much interest in Friday's British press in the female suicide bomber who blew herself up in a police raid in the suburb of Saint Denis.

Hasna Aitboulahcen is said to be the cousin of suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was also killed in Wednesday's operation.

The Sun says Aitboulahcen was a "reformed party animal", external once known as "cowgirl" because of the way she dressed on nights out. The Daily Star quotes friends of the 26-year-old as saying she had been a "very dynamic extrovert", external, a heavy drinker, who died her hair blonde and had no interest in religion.

The Times, which also pictures Aitboulahcen on its front page,, external traces her life from a "party girl who hung out with drug dealers" to construction company manager and the first female suicide bomber on European soil.

Intercepting her phone calls, reports the Independent, external, led the security services to locate the terrorists' hide out.

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The head of Germany's security service says that a Paris-style attack could happen again at any time in any European city. Hans Georg Maassen, President of the Federal Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution, told the BBC's Jenny Hill that the threat Germany was facing was "very serious".

Watch the interview here.

AFP journalist Isabel Malsang-Salles tweets this image from Paris.

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Ahead of those emergency talks in Brussels, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said European countries must "wake up" to terror threats.

He spoke after it emerged that the suspected Belgian ringleader of the attacks had entered France undetected.

But Belgian PM Charles Michel has defended Belgium's security services amid claims the attacks were organised there.

The meeting in Brussels is expected to discuss tightening checks at the external borders of the EU's passport-free Schengen area.

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