Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun on Saturday when a partial solar eclipse sweeps from eastern Canada to Siberia.
With cafes, bars and museums closed to combat the coronavirus outbreak, Parisians are learning what tourists have long known -- finding a public toilet in the French capital requires some sleuthing and plenty of patience.
A black panther rescued from rooftops near the northern city of Lille last week has been stolen from the zoo where it was taken after capture, officials said.
A flock of sheep that has taken a 140-kilometre tour around Paris, nibbling on grass at historic monuments and housing blocks along the way, ended their 12-day journey on the banks of the river Seine on Wednesday.
A team of French divers took to the sea off Marseille in a canary yellow capsule on Monday to spend a month exploring the deep waters of the Mediterranean, without decompressing until the very end.
The French police are set to blow up a World War II bomb in the north of Paris on Sunday leaving the area off limits to residents and cars, as well as disrupting train services to CDG airport and Eurostar services. This is what you need to know.
A young Frenchman who was honest enough to return an expensive package he mistakenly received to its rightful owner will get paid in gold as a reward for his actions.
A 19-year-old managed to get a bargain price for a Playstation games console at a French supermarket thanks to the help of the fruit and vegetable scales.
A 71-year-old Frenchman has set sail across the Atlantic in a barrel-shaped orange capsule, hoping to reach the Caribbean within three months thanks to ocean currents alone.
An animal rights charity in France is demanding that the mayor of a medieval village in the Dordogne change the name of 'Rue de la Saucisse' to a more vegan-friendly name. And the mayor said "pigs can fly".
A Paris hospital which made a public appeal for stool samples for a study on intestinal diseases said Friday it had suspended the project after being inundated by donors hoping for an easy 50 euros.
There are few worse gaffes for a French politician than making a ill-judged remark about food and one minister might be about to learn the lesson, having apparently revealed his rather expensive taste in restaurants during a speech at the Sorbonne university.
One woman had a rather unusual journey on the Paris Metro when she was forced to deliver her bundle of joy right there in one of the carriages, but the good news for the newborn was that he was awarded free travel in Paris until the age of 25.
Parisians are queuing up to take advantage of a nice little earner after a hospital advertised that it would pay €50 for each stool sample provided, in the name of scientific research. And there is a backlog of volunteers.
Gare du Nord in Paris, once described as the "squalor pit of Europe" became a makeshift maternity ward on Friday when a woman had a "lightning birth" in the middle of the station.
This Saturday thousands of people will guzzle lots of wine in the Bordeaux region - while running a marathon. Here's what you need to know about the Marathon du Medoc.
A French woman's trip to visit her parents in their tiny Provençal village turned into a nightmare when part of her finger was severed as she posted a letter in the La Poste mailbox.
French police have arrested an Austrian man at a Paris airport after he flew in from Mexico with 80 small birds stashed in his hand luggage, a judicial source said Wednesday.
Going to the beach can be tough work, but if you need a break from all the gruelling swimming and sunbathing this summer, a trip to one of France's pop-up seaside libraries could be just the thing.
Two women came to the aid of a mother who was forced to give birth on an RER commuter train in Paris on Monday, with one of them coming forward to describe her unusual experience... and denounce the other passengers on the train.
RER rail passengers in the French capital faced delays on Monday morning -- no, not because of strikes (this time) -- but instead because a woman was forced to give birth to a baby boy on the busiest train line in Europe.
It's an idyllic scene: sheep nibble placidly on the grass as a gaggle of children laugh in delight. But this is a high-rise housing estate in the suburbs of Paris, not the tranquil countryside.
