Economy OECD returns to revisionism with growth downgrade The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has issued another gloomy outlook for the global economy, its second in a row 09/11/2015
France Benzema's lawyer says full recording clears his client of blackmail The alleged sex-tape blackmail case of French international Mathieu Valbuena continues to dominate the front and back pages in France and beyond. His 07/11/2015
France Benzema placed under investigation on blackmail charges France and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been placed under investigation on accusations he denies that he was involved in a blackmail attempt 05/11/2015
Sport Valbuena and Benzema left out of French squad French striker Matthieu Valbuena has been left out of the international squad for his country’s two matches against Germany and England later this 05/11/2015
No Comment Paris: May the Christmas force be with you Robots and Star Wars characters herald the arrival of the Christmas season in the French capital. 05/11/2015
France Benzema under formal investigation over Valbuena sex-tape "blackmail" plot French footballer Karim Benzema is placed under formal investigation over a sex tape "blackmail" plot against team mate Mathieu Valbuena. 05/11/2015
France France to abolish ban on blood donation for gay men A more than 30-year law banning homosexual men from donating blood in France is to be abolished. The measure was originally set up to halt the spread 04/11/2015
Sport Benzema questioned in French sex tape case Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was questioned on Wednesday by French police in connection with an inquiry into an alleged blackmail. Investigators 04/11/2015
Economy Michelin to shed 1,600 jobs in European plant shake-up Michelin says it is closing several European sites with the loss of around 1,600 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan. The French tyre company 03/11/2015
France Trial of ETA suspects over 2010 police killing begins in France Six suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA have gone on trial in France over the 2010 killing of a police officer in Paris 02/11/2015
Cinema Fatima: the power of "invisible people" rarely seen on the silver screen French director, “Philippe Faucon”: http://www.istiqlal-films.com/ has been filming people he calls “the invisibles” for a long time; people who 30/10/2015
Economy Air France-KLM defends cost cuts despite soaring profits Air France-KLM has announced a larger-than-expected rise in third-quarter profits – while insisting that there’s still an “overwhelming need” to cut 29/10/2015
No Comment Hot chocolate models Models take to the catwalk in Paris dressed head-to-toe in chocolate creations as part of an annual event to celebrate all things chocolate. 29/10/2015
Europe News MEPs reject net neutrality rule changes MEPs voted on Tuesday against plans to amend legislation that aims to protect “net neutrality” in the EU. Proposed changes to an EU regulation on how 28/10/2015
France Hollande vows to find 'truth' about French pensioner bus crash French President Francois Hollande has promised to find “the truth” about a major bus crash last week in southwestern France. Hollande met the 27/10/2015
France IARC risks confusion with report on cancer-causing meats The International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) has been accused of misleading the public and the media after classifying processed meat 26/10/2015
Economy France sees rare fall in jobless total There are signs that the economic recovery may at last be reaching the French labour market. The jobless total fell by nearly 24,000, or 0.7 percent 26/10/2015
No Comment France: Friends and relatives pay homage to victims of bus crash At a ceremony in the small village of Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps in France hundreds of people mourn the victims of the bus crash that left 43 dead. 26/10/2015
France What went wrong? France probes horror bus crash that left dozens dead A long and difficult investigation lies ahead after France’s deadliest road crash in more than 30 years. At least 43 people were killed and four 24/10/2015
Sport Champagne to run for FIFA presidency Frenchman Jerome Champagne has announced he is to run for the presidency of football’s embattled governing body FIFA. The 57-year-old former diplomat 23/10/2015
France France in mourning after pensioners killed in horror bus crash At least 43 people, most of them pensioners on a hiking trip, have been killed after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck. The 23/10/2015
Economy Investment, innovation help job prospects in France, Italy, Portugal France is showing a slight improvement in its employment figures as a result of the first economic growth since 2007. Examples from the automobile 23/10/2015
France France bus crash: 'some of the victims were burned alive' France is mourning the victims of the country’s worst road disaster in 33 years. At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were 23/10/2015
Cinema Luc Jacquet talks Ice and Sky to euronews A decade after his Oscar-winning documentary ‘March of the Penguins’, French director Luc Jacquet is back with ‘Ice and the Sky’. It tells the story 23/10/2015
France Protests as Air France confirms 1,000 job losses in 2016 Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and across France on Thursday to defend jobs at Air France – as the carrier confirmed that 23/10/2015