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′Tide of the century′ surrounds Mont Saint-Michel

Ukraine

Ukraine peace deal: Moscow calls for pressure on Kiev

Moscow says France and Germany should put pressure on Kiev to make sure peace agreements are respected. It comes amid reports that two Ukrainian

Sport

Free-scoring Ireland seal title despite England's record win

Ireland are the 2015 Six nations champions on points ahead of England, who won big in Twickenham but not big enough. That is because Ireland

France

10,000 people in Le Mont-Saint-Michel enjoy 'super moon effect'

Ten thousand people have gathered in Le Mont-Saint-Michel in France’s Brittany region to see something unusual: an exceptionally high spring tide

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France

Picasso's electrician found guilty of stealing artworks

A court in Grasse, in the south of France, has found a couple guilty of stealing 271 artworks by Picasso. Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were each

Sport

Switzerland win team event at World Cup finals

Switzerland stunned the bigger guns to win the Nations Team Event at the World Cup season finals in Meribel. The action-packed parallel event saw

World

Vonn caps off remarkable comeback season with two titles

Lindsey Vonn blew out her right knee at the 2013 world championships and then injured it again on her return to action, keeping her out of last

France

Cinema celebrates its 120th birthday

It is exactly 120 years since the filming of what is widely considered the first motion picture in history. “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory” was

France

French comedian Dieudonné guilty of condoning terrorism

French comedian Dieudonné has been given a two-month suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of condoning terrorism by a Paris court. Days

Sport

Jansrud wins overall downhill title

The men’s downhill title went to Kjetil Jansrud, who kept his composure to clinch the 10th World Cup win of his career and the seventh this winter

Sport

Vonn clinches downhill title in Meribel

America’s Lindsey Vonn won the season-ending World Cup downhill at Meribel to secure the discipline’s crystal globe, the 18th of her career. The

France

Smoke seen rising from skyscraper in Paris' La Défense business district

Sport

Champions League: Monaco survive Arsenal scare

Monaco survived a huge scare to qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals despite losing on the night to Arsenal. The visitors, who needed to

France

France passes 'deep sleep' bill for end of life patients

French MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deep sleep bill. The draft law would allow terminally ill patients to opt for a deep sedation until they die.

Cinema

Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas co-star in adaptation of 'Suite Francaise'

Based on Irène Némirovsky’s novel of the same name, ‘Suite Francaise’ centres on a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the

Sport

Ibrahimovic faces new ban

Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic could be suspended for losing his temper following PSG’s surprise 3-2 defeat at Bordeaux on Sunday. Although the

Poland

Frenchman tries to smuggle Russian wife into EU in suitcase

A Frenchman has tried to smuggle his Russian wife across Poland’s border in a suitcase. The couple was travelling in a train from Moscow to Nice with

France

2 French police officers on trial over electrocution of 2 youths

Two police officers have gone on trial in France over the deaths of two youths that detonated an explosion of violence nearly a decade ago. Officers

Europe News

Strasbourg's Jews fearful, but staying put in France

The future of Jews in France became a big issue in Israel’s election campaign after the attack in January on a kosher grocery store in Paris

France

Care, not paperwork, say French health workers

Thousands of French health practitioners took to the streets of Paris on Sunday (March 15) to protest against a bill aimed at reforming the country’s