Valérie Trierweiler’s tell-all memoir has flown off the shelves in France, but most people think François Hollande’s ex-partner should never have written it, two new polls reveal.
Four months after a newsroom rebellion prompted her departure from Le Monde, Natalie Nougayrède, the French newspaper’s former editor-in-chief, has secured a new job with the Guardian.
Under a shroud of secrecy the second French patient has received an artificial heart transplant from doctors working to perfect the pioneering procedure, just months after the world's first recipient died.
A potentially explosive new memoir is due out this week from Valerie Trierwieler, France's ex-"first lady" who was dumped by the president for his mistress. The book apparently does little to "spare" François Hollande.
After some four days on the run, an escaped mentally ill British man has returned to the French psychiatric hospital where he was forcibly committed for beating a man to death with a four-kilo weight.
France's flagship airline Air France announced on Wednesday it was suspending flights to Sierra Leone from Thursday because of an Ebola outbreak that has killed at least 1,400 people in West Africa.
Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg is at the heart of a controversy that prompted the dissolution of Prime Minister Manuel Valls' cabinet on Monday. Montebourg's long been prone to prompting public quarrels.
Paris is putting on a dance on Monday night, just as it did seven decades ago, to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the City of Light from four long years of Nazi occupation.
Paris police have lost 51 kilos of cocaine that were locked up in the legendary police headquarters in the city centre. This embarrassing lapse comes mere months after a much more serious case of misconduct at the same building.
French President François Hollande called on Monday for "everything" possible to be done in order to stop the civilian suffering in Gaza due to an Israeli bombing campaign and ground attack.
The head of France's world famous Avignon Theatre Festival cancelled two productions set to open the event on Friday due to a strike by festival staff. A larger strike from performers threatens to cripple the month-long event.
New statistics out on Thursday showed France's moribund economy didn't grow at all in the first quarter of 2014. But not everyone is panicking. In fact the country's finance minister insisted, "It doesn't matter."
The first woman editor-in-chief of Le Monde, France’s left-leaning paper of record, stepped down on Wednesday, saying a battle with her top editors had left her no longer able to “fully” perform her duties.
A new study from French researchers has found people who make over 15 hours worth of mobile phone calls per month for a long period of time are exposed to an elevated risk of developing certain types of brain cancer. Professionals are especially in danger.
France’s justice minister was fending off calls for her resignation on Monday after not singing the country's national anthem, the Marseillaise, at a public event and then comparing singing along with the hymn to “karaoke”.
In an effort to calm real estate speculation, Corsicans approved new restrictions on Friday that would require people to live on the Mediterranean island five years before they can buy property.
French booze sales in China have taken a hit after party leaders cracked down on extravagant gift-giving and sumptuous feasts in the wake of several stinging corruption scandals.
Scientists say a morbid souvenir from the execution of France's last king, a cloth dipped in his blood, is a fake. The long controversial keepsake has previously been verified as containing the blood of Louis XVI.
In her most in-depth interview ever on the subject, Anne Sinclair the ex-wife of disgraced former French IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and one-time favourite to become president, says she knew nothing of his infamously sordid extra-marital romps.
After a five-year, €170 million makeover Paris’s zoo is finally set to reopen to the public in Saturday. The zoo's chiefs claim they have invented a new-look 21st century zoo that will change how humans see wild animals, but warn "it is not an amusement park".
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled a sweeping package of reforms and cuts on Tuesday intended to rekindle the country’s flagging economy. He later passed a vote of confidence from lawmakers in the National Assembly.
Roma people living in France are increasingly the victims of police violence and harassment and sometimes left to fend for themselves even when they call for help, according to a damning new Amnesty International report published on Tuesday.
