The jury, whose job it will be to pick a winner of the 2013 Palme d'Or award, at next month's Cannes Film Festival is taking shape with organisers announcing this week actress Nicole Kidman will be on the panel alongside Steven Spielberg.
Sixteen percent of young French people admit to having had virtual sex, and one in ten say they have made a sex tape. These are just two of the more eyebrow-raising results of a survey into how technology is changing the erotic habits of the French.
France’s far-right National Front party have demanded French international striker Karim Benzema be barred from playing for the national team after he insisted he would not sing the French national anthem before matches.
The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo di Caprio starring in a remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, will open the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
Paris is known as the city of love, but despite its myriad romantic attractions, one spot in particular is proving to be a magnet for erotically-charged artistic types, and it's a world away from the Jardin du Luxembourg or even Pigalle.
Another year, another campaign. Authorities in Paris have renewed their efforts this week to try to tackle the age-old problem of dog poo, the long-time scourge of the capital's streets. But will they ever succeed?
A report released in France has dealt a severe blow to the country's renowned gastronomy by revealing sales of hamburgers, pizzas, hotdogs and other fast food grub have surpassed those of traditional restaurant dishes for the first time.
As France looks set to break with tradition and say au revoir to their previously sacrosanct two month-long school summer holidays, The Local takes a look at some other areas of traditional Gallic culture facing the threat of the guillotine.
The head of US tyremaker Titan has mocked French workers at a Goodyear factory for putting in only "three hours" a day and talking and eating too much. French union bosses hit back suggesting the CEO might need psychiatric care.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité – except when it comes to a night out at the movies, it would seem. A cinema in Paris has caused a very French scandal by charging extra for ‘premium’ seats. One outraged politician called it "segregation" on Thursday.
Famed international art dealer Guy Wildenstein has been charged with tax evasion and money laundering in France following an investigation launched by the finance ministry, a judicial source said Wednesday.
From number crunching to cheese making, the story of how former accountant from Britain, Matt Feroze, ended up being crowned France's top cheesemonger.
In the second instalment of The Local's opinion series Tête-a-tête, we examine efforts to shield the French language from the invasion of Franglais. We hear from a defiant Ministry of Culture in Paris as well opponents of linguistic protectionism.
To tell us more about the beguiling Mediterranean port of Marseille, the 2013 European Capital of Culture, The Local caught up with Susan Fitoussi - an artist and operational assistant who has lived in the city for almost 20 years.
French and Malian forces patrolled Timbuktu on Tuesday after they seized Mali's fabled desert city as part of a lightening advance against the Islamists controlling the country's vast north.
Fancy a slice of art in between flights? Culture vultures now have a chance to satisfy their on-the-go urges with a new museum in the heart of France's largest airport, showcasing collections from top art institutions.
Celebrations will begin in Marseille on Saturday to mark the launch of a year-long series of festivities as part of the city's status as the 2013 European Capital of Culture. Authorities and residents of the French port city are hoping the cultural bonanza will help rid the city of its more shady image.
The Louvre said Thursday its new Islamic art wing helped cement its position as the world's most-visited museum with nearly 10 million visitors in 2012, over a million more than last year.
Henri Loyrette, the pioneering boss of the Louvre for over a decade, will quit the world's biggest museum at the end of his current term of office in April, he told AFP on Monday.
<p>An amateur tournament of the traditional French sport pétanque in New York Sunday was so popular that some people were turned away, one organizer said.</p>
<p>From documentaries to high-end costume dramas, the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic has sparked a tidal wave of TV shows, up for grabs at this week's MIPTV international trade show in Cannes.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1971, Paris lost a piece of its soul as the teeming hub of humanity that was "Les Halles" food market was ripped out, part of a disastrous experiment in urbanism caught on camera by iconic photographer Robert Doisneau.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Along the waterfront in the Old Port of Marseille, fishmongers shout out prices for the morning catch. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tourists stroll under sun-drenched skies. Old men sit sipping strong coffees or pastis, the anise-flavoured liqueur favoured in the south of France.</span></p>
<p>Anonymous hackers attacked the website of the French anti-piracy organization Hadopi in retaliation to the closure of the file-sharing site Megaupload.com</p>
<p>French librarians are calling on readers to copy borrowed books and DVDs to fight the clampdown on the illegal downloading. They say the French law allows people to copy works available in public libraries.</p>
