Security in France was heightened on Saturday as some 17,000 heritage sites, many of them closed to the general public throughout the rest of the year, opened their doors to millions of visitors for the 33rd edition of the European Heritage Days. The a ual event, also known as the ‘Jou ées du Patrim...

A French union activist who lost an eye this week when protesters against labour reforms clashed with security forces said Saturday he was going to take legal against the police. "I am going to file an official complaint myself. I will do everything to ensure justice is done," Laurent Theron, 46, to...

A 15-year-old French boy has been arrested in Paris and remanded in custody on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, a source close to the investigation said on Friday. He is the third French 15-year-old in just five days to have been remanded in custody and placed under formal investigation for...

A Corsica court on Friday handed out prison sentences to five men over a mass beach brawl on the Mediterranean island, in a racially charged case that captured wide attention in France over the summer. The violent brawl in August injured five people and prompted the mayor of the northe Corsican vill...

Clashes erupted on Thursday as thousands of demonstrators protesting against a controversial labour law took to the streets of Paris and cities across France. The interior ministry said 32 people had been arrested in co ection with the violence. France's main CGT union estimated that 40,000 people h...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was likened to Donald Trump this week after the latest in a string of provocative statements that have pushed his presidential campaign ever further to the right. The comparison with the Republican candidate for the White House, a notorious climate change scep...

German police Tuesday arrested three men with forged Syrian passports accused of being Islamic State (IS) group militants and labelled a possible "sleeper cell" with links to the November Paris attackers. More than 200 police commandos took part in the pre-dawn raids in northe Germany to detain the ...

Alstom will go ahead with plans to shut down manufacturing at its historic Belfort plant, its CEO said on Tuesday, setting up a confrontation with President François Hollande who vowed that "everything will be done" to stop its closure. The French engineering firm, which makes the country's famed TG...

French MP Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is the only woman ru ing in France’s right-wing presidential primaries. She is a long-shot candidate for the Elysée palace, struggling to shake her camp out of its obsession with identity politics and security. Kosciusko-Morizet, 43, barely snuck into the main op...

For the 15th a iversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States, a French polling firm conducted a survey to gauge the impact of conspiracy theories among the French. The main finding? According to polling firm Odoxa, the majority of French people believe that the full story of that day has...

French anti-terror judges on Saturday charged a woman over a failed attack near Paris' Notre Dame cathedral, where a car containing gas canisters was found last weekend. The woman, named as 29-year-old O ella G., was remanded in custody after being charged with association with a terrorist group and...

French police on Friday a ounced a new arrest in co ection with an abandoned car found to contain gas cylinders in Paris over the weekend. The suspect is the boyfriend of a woman detained Thursday and is thought to have links to radical Islam. The suspect was arrested late on Thursday and was alread...

Despite being bo blind, Sandrine Aurière-Martinet is one of the best judokas of her generation, wi ing France’s first Paralympic gold in the Rio de Janeiro games on Thursday. Aurière-Martinet, 33, took up judo at the age of 9. She says her heightened senses of hearing and touch are the key to her su...

Rescuers were bringing 33 people trapped ove ight in cable cars high over the glaciers of Mont Blanc to an altitude station on Friday mo ing after the tangled cables were repaired, the cable car operator said. Emergency workers had scrambled at first light on Friday to rescue the stranded, who inclu...

President François Hollande delivered a key speech in Paris on Thursday in which he rejected the idea that the state should sacrifice civil liberties in the fight against terror and emphasised that French secularism is not incompatible with religion. “The French Constitution is not a flexible text w...

Work on building a wall along the approach road to the French port of Calais to try to stop migrants from jumping aboard trucks bound for Britain will begin this month, British officials said Wednesday. UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told lawmakers that security was being stepped up in Cala...

French President François Hollande will deliver a key speech in Paris on Thursday, but is likely once again to disappoint those eager to know if he will run for a second term in the April 2017 elections. Hollande is expected to address the subjects of “democracy and terrorism”, less than two months ...

A second couple was detained ove ight in co ection with an investigation into the weekend discovery of an abandoned car in central Paris that contained seven gas canisters, a French police source said Thursday. The pair was picked up near Montargis, about 110 kilometres (65 miles) south of Paris. Th...

Teodorin Obiang, the big-spending, hard-partying, car-crazy son of Equatorial Guinea’s longtime ruler, is due to face court on corruption charges four years after French police seized his multi-million-euro Paris mansion. The 47-year-old, who was appointed vice-president of the oil-rich Central Afri...

Work on building a wall along the approach road to the French port of Calais to try to stop migrants from jumping aboard trucks bound for Britain will begin this month, British officials said Wednesday. UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told lawmakers that security was being stepped up in Cala...