France

Economy

Warm weather hits consumer spending in France

Consumer spending in France fell by the highest amount in nearly two years in November – partly due to the unusually warm weather according to

23/12/2015

France

French man who decapitated his boss found dead in prison

Yassin Salhi said he was "motivated by grudge"

23/12/2015

France

French police foil plot to attack police and soldiers in city of Orleans

The interior minister says two young Frenchmen, believed to have been in contact with a third man in Syria, are being questioned

22/12/2015

Series

Postcards from Lyon: The Confluence Museum

The last in our series of Postcards from Lyon comes from one of the French city's newest landmarks

22/12/2015

France

Man arrested over Air France bomb scare

A man has been arrested after an Air France jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya due to a bomb scare. The flight from Mauritius to

21/12/2015

Cinema

'21 Nights with Pattie': to be savoured like a glass of chilled wine

‘21 Nights with Pattie’ is both smooth and refreshing like a glass of chilled red wine on a hot summer evening in a village in southern France

18/12/2015

France

IMF chief Christine Lagarde vows to fight negligence trial

Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, says she will be appealing a decision by a French court that she stands trial for her role in the payment of

17/12/2015

Business Series

France's competition watchdog slaps biggest-ever fine on Orange

France’s Orange mobile telecoms operator has been fined a whopping 350 million euros by France’s competition regulator. It is the biggest-ever fine

17/12/2015

France

Marine Le Pen criticised for posting pictures of ISIL on twitter account

The leader of France’s far right National Front, Marine Le Penn could face an investigation by French authorities for pictures she posted on her

17/12/2015

Europe News

Sakharov Prize an 'historic moment' for jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

Jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi has been officially awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Collecting the European Parliament

16/12/2015

Europe News

Wife of jailed Saudi blogger hopes Sakharov Prize will be 'gateway to freedom'

Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi is being officially awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Wednesday. But the human rights activist

15/12/2015

Series

Postcards from Lyon: The Confluence district

In this episode of Postcards we focus on Lyon's new modern district, the Confluence

15/12/2015

Series

An architect's dream in the city that's doubling its urban centre

15/12/2015

France

Expert warns of danger to COP 21 treaty from fossil fuel giants

The COP21 climate deal is not prefect but could be effective say experts if it is not watered down by big business lobbyists like the fossil fuel industy's

14/12/2015

Europe News

Strasbourg voters unite against Le Pen's National Front

France’s National Front party failed to make a major breakthrough in the country’s regional elections. The party, led by Marine Le Pen, failed to win

14/12/2015

France

Teacher retracts ISIL accusation in Paris nursery school stabbing

A French nursery school teacher who was stabbed early on Monday morning in his school near Paris, and who claimed his assailant said the attack was a

14/12/2015

France

French schoolteacher 'invented ISIL knife attack'

A school teacher has admitted inventing a story that he was attacked by a terrorist knifeman. The nursery school teacher earlier said the hooded man

14/12/2015

Economy

'New jobs plan' for France after National Front election scare

The French government is reportedly promising new measures to boost employment in the wake of the regional election results which saw a record score

14/12/2015

France

French police hunt for man who stabbed teacher as a "DAESH warning"

A huge manhunt is underway in St Denis north of Paris after a teacher was stabbed in a nursery school before classes began. Police immediately sealed

14/12/2015

France

Climate deal signals global recognition, sets out to fix problem

The hottest year on record draws to a close, and with it four years of hard negotiating, which produces, at long last, an international agreement to

14/12/2015

France

'Une petite surprise' for France's far-right National Front

France’s far-right National Front has failed to win the big breakthrough it was hoping for in Sunday’s (December 13) local election run-offs after

14/12/2015

France

What do green NGOs make of COP21 climate deal?

14/12/2015

France

France's far-right fails to win a single region in elections

There was applause for the leader but the indications are France’s far-right National Front has failed to win a single region in the second round of

13/12/2015

France

Defeat for Marine Le Pen - exit polls

Defeat for France’s far-right National Front party in three key target regions according to exit polls. Leader Marine Le Pen lost out to the

13/12/2015

Sport

Kristoffersen stuns Hirscher in Val d'Isere

Hello and welcome back to Gravity. A host of big names, including the likes of Jean-Claude Killy, Franz Klammer, Ingemar Stenmark, Hermann Maier and

13/12/2015

France

Paris remembers one month after the attacks in the French capital

Paris was in sombre mood on a dull December day. It is one month since the City of LIghts suffered its darkest day since World War 2. Flowers and

13/12/2015