Tom Dumoulin should be Chris Froome’s main rival as the Briton targets a record-equalling fifth title in the 2018 Tour de France, the route for which

French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed opponents' criticisms that he is a 'president of the rich' and urged his countrymen to take a more positive attitude towards success.

An original illustration for the cover of one of the early Asterix comic books has sold for a record €1.4m at auction in Paris, more than seven times its expected price.

Former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay has been chosen as UNESCO’s new chief. Azoulay edged Qatar’s Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari after the

As it has done since 1981, The Voiles de St Tropez has brought the yachting season to a close.

FIFA's Gianni Infantino has presented the 2019 Women's World Cup in the French city of Lyon

Greenpeace is making what it calls an "alarming" full report on French nuclear security unavailable to the public in case it offers intel to terrorists.

France says it will not recognise an independent Catalonia as other EU governments urge region to up hold the law

Veteran French film star Jean Rochefort one of the country’s best-loved actors has died in Paris aged 87.

Iraq's prime minister Haider al-Abadi, in Paris on bi-lateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, has stressed he does not want an armed clash with Kurdish Iraqi authorities and urged Peshmerga forces in disputed areas to work with Iraqi security forces under the control of the central gove

In a posh neighbourhood near the Paris Saint-Germain's football ground, police found four gas canisters doused with petrol and wired to connect to a mobile phone.

A man who fatally stabbed two women outside the main railway station in Marseille had multiple identities, French prosecutors say. The suspect

French media report one woman had her throat slit and another was stabbed to death, in what is being treated as a likely terror attack.

The French authorities are describing as a "likely terrorist attack" the killing of two women on Sunday in Marseille which has been claimed by so-called Islamic State.