"When a national team plays, it represents you, there’s pride," Karim, a shopkeeper in Lyon and an Algerian football fan told Euronews ahead of Friday's game.

Paris defied U.S. President Donald Trump last week by passing a tax on big digital firms' revenues in France despite a threat from him to launch a probe that could lead to trade tariffs.

The full extent of the destruction to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was laid bare on Wednesday as French culture minister Franck Riester visited to look at renovation efforts.

Von der Leyen spoke about what she called Europe's duty to save lives in the Mediterranean, citing the 17,000 people drowned there in the last 5 years. She promised a new migration pact to tackle the problem, as well as a carbon-neutral Europe by 2050 and a boost for unity across the continent.

Emmanuel Macron says he's waiting for "clarifications" after Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah was detained in June in Iran.

The traditional fireworks display is organised to celebrate Bastille Day.

France rounded off Bastille Day with its traditional firework display at the Eiffel Tower on Sunday (July 14).

Algeria is through to the Africa Cup of Nations final, and fans in France are thrilled, but celebrations after the semi-final were marred by clashes with police and hundreds of arrests.

During Sunday's Bastille Day parade in Paris, dozens of yellow vests activists, with yellow balloons and a lot of noise, tried to mix with the audience. Police intervened to keep them away from the parade.

First fireworks ceremony since the 2016 deadly attack which killed 86 people watching a fireworks display on the beach.

President Emmanuel Macron said he was “proud" or the "innovative” French army after seeing the flyboard designed by Franky Zapata.

French police fired tear gas to disperse protesters from the Champs Elysees avenue on Sunday (July 14), a few hours after President Emmanuel Macron had presided over the Bastille Day military parade.

French President Emmanuel Macron sat with European leaders for this year's Bastille Day military parade in Paris on Sunday, July 14.

14 July is full of fireworks and celebrations across France, but what is Bastille Day all about?