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From playing in caves and kitchens to becoming Youtube stars during the pandemic, Slift are psychedelic rock’s quirkiest success story

The Paris prosecutor has called for a trial of the woman suspected of the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Paris in 2022 – a case that shocked France and sparked outrage over the government’s handling of immigration.

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed Stephane Sejourne, the country's outgoing foreign minister, to replace Thierry Breton as its European commissioner, after Breton announced he would be quitting, claiming EU chief Ursula von der Leyen had asked Paris to withdraw his candidacy.

France's powerful European commissioner Thierry Breton on Monday announced he was quitting his role with immediate effect, claiming EU chief Ursula von der Leyen had sought at the last-minute to bar him from her incoming team.

French European commissioner Thierry Breton announced he was standing down from his role effective immediately Monday, publicly accusing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of having tried to block him from being reappointed. Breton, one of the most influential figures in Brussels, has taken a strong line against some…

Thierry Breton, who had been appointed for second term, cited von der Leyen’s ‘questionable governance’ in EU

The reinvention of Montpellier from ancient university town to ‘Berlin by the Med’ is in full swing, and late summer is the best time to visit

France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has adopted a new ‘action plan’ for professional equality between men and women for the period 2024-2026, which is intended to be ‘more ambitious’ than a previous gender parity programme.

He was a street-fighting revolutionary with a taste for flash cars and crisp shirts – a moralising bank-robber who was eventually gunned down in the streets of Paris. As a film recreates this astonishing figure’s notorious trial, we speak to his old acquaintances