News from France
France's June heatwave saw temperatures in Paris hit 41C, the same average as Dubai. Experts now say that, in order to adapt to climate change, the country will...
Sunday saw France observe its first annual day of commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer wrongly convicted of treason in one of the country's m...
Tour de France organisers have shortened Sunday's stage by 30km due to extreme heat, the first time in the history of the cycling race that high temperatures ha...
Three of France's biggest tourist attractions, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay, will close early all weekend as an intense heatwave grips th...
After weeks of sweltering heat and drought, farmers and analysts fear France's maize crop could be down by a third this year – making it the smallest in 35 ye...
The non-independence bloc has won control of New Caledonia's deliberative assembly, after securing the backing of a small party, despite the two sides holding s...
After almost 1,000 years, the priceless Medieval Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil – spirited into London's British Museum on Friday in the dead of nigh...
France is not prepared for the pace and scale of climate change, the country’s climate watchdog warned in a report that calls for a significant acceleration o...
Under cover of darkness and heavy police guard, the Bayeux Tapestry – a 68-metre embroidered chronicle of the Norman conquest of England, stitched in wool not...
A French appeals court this week upheld Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzling funds from the European Parliament and sentenced her to house arrest – somet...
The Paris Court of Appeal has upheld an embezzlement conviction against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for misusing European Union funds, but reduced the lower ...
The European Commission has warned that a French bill that would ban children under the age of 15 from social media would infringe the European Union’s online...