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So, how well do you know the new map?

Because the men are causing all the accidents.

• French motorists to see hike in motorway toll fees
• France says it's OK to warn drivers about speed cameras
• The worst scams to avoid whilst driving in France

Two sexually-charged adverts have got people hot under the collar in France, a little strange perhaps given the history of the French for making raunchy adverts. Take a look back through time at these famously steamy ads.

A Montenegrin man was handed a four-year jail sentence in Germany on Thursday for heading to Paris with assault rifles and explosives hidden in his car shortly before the November attacks.

No, Paris doesn't have the dirtiest.

• IN PICS: Walkers and cyclists take over Paris streets
• Plan to conquer Paris ring road for bikes and pedestrians

"Is it really responsible, in a depressed France, that the authorities forbid the French from smiling... (on their ID photos)"

The president says the budget is "serious" but many would disagree.

Far east giant provides a boost for Brittany's beleaguered dairy farmers.

The scandals are stacking up for Nicolas Sarkozy just at the wrong time.

• Race officially opens to be the next president of France
• Sarkozy comes out of the closet as a climate skeptic

Moving to Paris or just arrived? Read this first.

Gerard Depardieu is bashing France for its "stinky cheese", but we couldn't give a whiff.

French working life comes with a whole glossary of work terms (and acronyms) that you never learned at language school. Here's what you need to know.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under fire at home over her refugees policy, called Saturday for Europe to secure deals with third countries to send back migrants who do not qualify for asylum.

Should the Islamic headscarf be banned in photographs for official Swiss documents?

These films are so good, not even The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari made the list.

The nationalist Danes’ Party elicited strong reactions went it took to the streets of Haderslev to hand out cans of what it called ‘refugee spray’.

As the wine harvest gets well underway across Spain, The Local celebrates the nation's favourite tipple with some little known facts.