A man suspected of a gun attack in the Paris suburbs last week, killing one person and wounding seven including a child, has admitted to "targeting individuals who appeared to be Muslim or African," prosecutors said on Thursday.
A US judge has pared down a defamation lawsuit that France's president and his wife brought against a right-wing US influencer last year, US media reported on Wednesday.
A charity is calling on the French government to create an offence of 'administrative abuse' to protect foreigners in France from coercion linked to their residency status.
A 19-year-old Russian man has been sentenced to eight months in prison and permanently banned from French territory after making Nazi salutes near a synagogue.
French prosecutors said on Monday they had launched a probe after a 21-year-old man died by suicide following what his family said was years of racist harassment.
Talented French footballers - many drawn from the multi-racial suburbs - have become a net export for the country. France itself could learn a great deal from the success of its grassroots sports operation, writes John Lichfield.
Spain's former prime minister has become the latest person to question the Frenchness of France's national football team - so where does this idea come from, and is there any truth in it?
The black mayor of the French capital's largest suburb on Thursday expressed outrage after a banner appeared on its cathedral calling for the mass deportation of non-white people.
At least 160 protests are planned in towns and cities across France on Monday evening to protest over judicial failings over the killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna.
After organisers of the French Open fined a tennis player €55,000 for sexist comments, we take a look at France's laws on sexism, and the extra requirements that foreigners face.
Roland Garros and the French Tennis Federation on Monday hit Adolfo Daniel Vallejo with a $65,000 fine for his remarks about the woman who umpired his second-round defeat at the French Open.
France's interior minister is seeking to block US rapper Kanye West from performing in the southern city of Marseille in June due to his antisemitic remarks, a source close to the minister told AFP on Tuesday.
France said on Friday it was "greatly concerned" about the International Olympic Committee's decision to introduce gender testing to determine eligibility for the female category, saying it was a "step backwards".
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in demos across France on Sunday marking International Women's Day, with Gisèle Pelicot leading the march in Paris.
A Jewish primary school was vandalised in eastern Paris at the weekend when its windows were broken and a CCTV camera torn off, French prosecutors said on Sunday.
Paris' Eiffel Tower features the names of 72 notable scientists - all men. But that is set to change with the addition of another 72 names, this time women who distinguished themselves in the field of science, mathematics or engineering.
France has launched a probe after a video emerged of a man harassing and humiliating a young Jewish child at a Paris airport, demanding that he "free Palestine" and "dance," a judicial source said on Tuesday.
Feminists expressed outrage on Monday after footage circulated of France's first lady Brigitte Macron using a slur against activists who disrupted the show of an actor-comedian who had once been accused of rape.
Discrimination based on religion has increased in France, a report by the country's rights ombudsman found on Thursday, with one in three Muslims surveyed saying they had suffered from it.
The Nordic countries might be the best known for their gender-equal policies, but a new ranking on equality between men and women taking into account things like work, money and education places France second within the EU.
One of France's most famous national monuments may be getting a revamp after calls to change the inscription on the front to acknowledge the fact that women exist.
Holiday camp organisers are to file a legal complaint against Spanish airline Vueling over a decision a day earlier to make French Jewish teenagers disembark from a Paris-bound flight, a lawyer said on Thursday.
France's long-running survey of attitudes towards matters of race, religion and ethnicity shows that the country is gradually becoming more tolerant, with French people less likely to hold racist opinions.
