The safety warnings foreign governments issue to their citizens when visiting France can appear to be excessively alarming. Although we don't want to be scaremongers, here are a few of the most severe from governments around the world.
For this year’s edition of Paris’s all-night art party “Nuit Blanche,” organizers are taking participants on a hike through installations and performances scattered across the City of Light.
A Greek jeweller was left empty-handed and red-faced after selling over €6 million ($7.5 million) worth of jewels to two con men who paid him with a suitcase full of Monopoly money.
Visitors to Monaco would be wise to mind their tongue. A Tunisian man was slapped with a three-month prison sentence after being convicted of insulting the principality's royal family during a "vulgar" rant.
What passes for normal behaviour and customs among Anglos can look pretty alien to the French at times. Here’s our list of the things the French find weird about us. What else would you add?
Nicolas Sarkozy’s return to French politics continued apace this week when he presented his plan for how "hope" can be restored to France. We've narrowed his personal rescue package down to seven key proposals.
A new global study concludes pensioners have a better quality of life in the US and the UK than in France. This may come as a surprise to the thousands of retired expats who came to France to settle. So is the study wrong and where would you rather grow old?
On the same day class action lawsuits became legal in France, a consumer watchdog group filed one of the collective proceedings against the country’s biggest landlord over the "illegal" fees it charges renters.
French far-right politician Marine Le Pen had her driver’s license revoked after picking up one too many speeding tickets, it was revealed this week. It's also been claimed she recently moved house after one of her dad's dogs killed one of her beloved Bengal cats.
After a 76-year-old woman told a group of young men to quiet down outside her apartment building near Paris, they retaliated by brutally raping her and then looting her home, according to reports in France.
With boss-napping apparently a passé option, French workers angry over planned layoffs at a vacuum factory have threatened to blow up the plant where they work.
Paris will roll out its brand new smartphone app on Wednesday which is supposed to make the sometimes impossible task of hailing a taxi in the French capital a little easier. But will it be of any use?
All but a handful of pharmacies in France will be closed on Tuesday as part of a nationwide strike against government plans to weaken the monopolies held by self-employed professionals like lawyers, doctors and notaries.
It took French cops a full 10 kilometres to catch up to a Briton as he cruised along at 219 km/h on a motorway this weekend. He's done nothing to improve the speed demon rep of British drivers in France.
French meteorologists have issued a red alert - the maximum warning - to residents in southern France due to heavy storms and the threat of flash flooding. Four people were killed in raging flood waters in the same area two weeks ago.
The French are well known for lending words from the English language but Anglos have proven just as willing to adopt Gallic words and have even reinvented a few. Here are 15 'French' words in English that the French themselves may not quite understand.
After the local elections and the Europeans, Sunday's Senate ballot made it three historic poll successes out of three for France's far-right National Front in 2014. Is the presidential palace the next stop?
With France's senate vote coming this weekend, The Local has picked out the five most generous perks the lawmakers in France's upper house are entitled to. And they're not too stingy when compared their counterparts in the US and UK.
Following the beheading of a French hostage, authorities have expanded to 40 countries the list of places where French visitors should use “utmost vigilance”. Some on the list may surprise you.
Valérie Trierweiler’s tell-all book about her life with French President François Hollande has made her wealthier than her ex. It's perhaps an ironic twist for Trierweiler who claimed in the book that Hollande mocked her for her humble origins.
In honour of Europe's annual day celebrating language learning, we have put together a quiz to test your knowledge of some of French's most unusual expressions. How well do you know the language of Molière?
The bad news for drivers is that a spike in Paris air pollution has officials seeking to bring back alternating day driving restrictions, but the good news is the limits would trigger free public transit.
The outrage from the Muslim community and the rest of France has been potent since Islamic militants beheaded a French tourist in Algeria. The Local hit the streets of Paris to get of the sense the mood of a public still in shock.
The only prison in Paris, the notorious and historic La Santé was open this weekend for guided tours as it sits empty ahead of massive renovations. Here’s a look inside at a place that’s both fascinating and terrifying.
