The French parliament on Wednesday adopted a tough new anti-terrorism bill that gives authorities vastly expanded powers to search homes, restrict movement and close places of worship. The bill, which was passed by the Senate after modifi

French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a plan to bolster France's domestic security on Wednesday during a speech to police forces at the presidential Elysée Palace. His proposals include the creation of a “daily security force” within

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of France on Thursday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron's planned labour reforms, but low tu outs suggested the resistance is running out of steam. Numbers have steadily dwindled from a pea

President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he was a president of all French, dismissing opponents' criticisms that his policies favour the rich and said his countrymen should adopt a more positive attitude towards success. In his first mon

The election of France’s former culture minister Audrey Azoulay as UNESCO's new director-general is partly due to the crisis between Qatar and Saudi-led Gulf countries. On October 13, Azoulay was elected to become UNESCO’s director-genera

Picasso's mansion on the French Riviera – where his last wife tragically shot herself – is expected to be sold for more than 20 million euros ($24 million) at an auction on Thursday. The artist spent his twilight years on the estate at Mougins in the hills near Cannes, dying there in April 1973, 12 ...

France and Qatar were running neck-and-neck in the race to lead the UN's troubled cultural body after a third round of voting Wednesday whittled the field down to five. Qatar's Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari and France's Audrey Azoulay -- both former culture ministers -- had 18 votes apiece in the ba...

A Paris judge on Wednesday handed down jail terms of up to seven years to protesters who attacked and set fire to a police car with two officers inside in what he described as an "urban guerrilla scene". Swiss national Joachim Landwehr, who is on the run and was tried in absentia, was sentenced to s...

Two radicalised inmates in a French prison have been placed under formal investigation on suspicion of plotting attacks, only days before their expected release from jail, a judicial source said on Tuesday. The two men, who were due to be released mid-October after completing sentences for non-terro...

More than 200,000 French public sector workers angered by President Emmanuel Macron's plans to freeze their pay and slash jobs went on strike Tuesday, amplifying opposition to his cost-cutting, pro-business agenda. Nine unions representing 5.4 million public workers issued a joint strike call to sho...

Animal lovers may be delighted that wolves are roaming the French mountains once again -- but the predators' increasing attacks on sheep have farmers longing to get their guns out. On Monday, farmers flooded the streets of the city of Lyon with hundreds of sheep, demanding more gove ment action afte...

Jean Rochefort, the French actor who played a key role in one of the most cursed movie sagas in Hollywood history, has died aged 87, his daughter told AFP Monday. Rochefort was a French national treasure when he was cast to play Don Quixote in 1998 by the former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, wh...

French President Emmanuel Macron made global headlines in June when he called on foreign scientists to join his “Make Our Planet Great Again” project on fighting climate change. But in France, not all researchers are happy about the invite. Just one month into his tenure, the young French leader ann...

A criminal trial of exceptional breadth opened Monday in Paris, five years after the Toulouse-area killing spree that rocked France and set in motion a long series of deadly homegrown terrorist attacks across the country. On March 11, 2012, Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old who had served time for petty ...

France’s economy minister on Monday launched a new label for French industry, tagged French Fab. A brand in the vein of “French Tech”, which is dedicated to growing French start-ups around the world. After French Tech (for start-ups), French Touch (for luxury goods), meet French Fab, the latest labe...

France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new counter-terrorism bill, making permanent several controversial measures in place under a nearly two-year-old state of emergency. It will allow the authorities to confine suspected jihadist sympathisers to their neighbourhood...

The French writer and actress Anne Wiazemsky, who famously wrote a best-selling account of her short marriage to New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, died of cancer in Paris on Thursday, her family said. "Anne died this mo ing. She had been very sick," her brother Pierre Wiazemsky, an actor, told AFP....

Famous for being a leader in the fashion world, France is also trying to lead the way in combatting one of the industry's darker sides: unrealistic body images that can lead to eating disorders. As it is, there’s a lot of pressure to be thin in France and a certain amount of "fat shaming", especiall...

French carmaker Renault has announced plans to make half of its models electric or hybrid by 2022 and to invest heavily in "robo-vehicles" with increasing degrees of autonomy. A strategic plan released Friday aims to boost Renault annual revenues to 70 billion euros ($82.2 billion) by 2022 from 51 b...

French President Emmanuel Macron is again facing accusations of contempt for the working class after an apparent dig at workers battling to save their jobs at a bankrupt auto parts manufacturer in central France. Macron was visiting a training centre in the rural Creuse region on Wednesday when he w...