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'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

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

World News

IMF chief Christine Lagarde vows to fight court decision that she stand trial

Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, has said she will appeal a court’s decision that she must stand trial for her role in the payment of 404

World News

New security measures on French Thalys cross-border trains

France has unveiled its planned new security measures on Thalys cross-border trains. They link France with Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne in

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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

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

Belgium

Salah Abdeslam: did the law allow him to escape?

Did a legal loophole prevent Salah Abdeslam's arrest?

Series

Postcards from Lyon: The Confluence district

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

Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

France

France goes to the polls in regional elections

It is the run-off in regional elections in France with indications that the turn out is around 60 percent – an approximate 10 percent rise from the