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Sport

Wingsuit flyers really do soar

Breathtaking Chamonix in France is fast becoming the place for Wingsuit flying.

02/01/2016

France

Car drives at soldiers on guard outside Mosque in southern France

In southern France soldiers opened fired on a car which tried to ram them twice. They were on guard outside a Mosque. The driver of the car is now in

01/01/2016

France

2016 welcomed around the world

In Paris, the Champs Elysees was at the heart of the French capital’s new year festivities. The usual fireworks display was cancelled – and a video

01/01/2016

France

UN urged to act after journalist deaths hit 10-year high

This year has been the deadliest in a decade for journalists, with reporters increasingly killed away from the battlefield, new data shows. Reporters

29/12/2015

France

France makes 200,000 World War II documents public

Seventy years after the end of World War II, France has made public 200,000 documents from the so-called Vichy regime which helped Nazi Germany

29/12/2015

France

Corsica prayer hall and kebab shop targeted in 'revenge attack'

Demonstrators have vandalised a prayer hall on the French island of Corsica .. setting fire to prayer books and copies of the Koran. A kebab shop was

26/12/2015

France

French ski resorts ask locals to stay away

With snow in short supply this year, some French ski resorts are asking locals to stay away from the slopes and give priority to tourists. In towns

24/12/2015

France

France: dual national terrorists could be stripped of French nationality

Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls says the government will move forward with plans to strip dual citizens of their French nationality if they are

23/12/2015

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