The Latest Breaking News from France

Team has two potential GC hopes for next year's Tour de France, while Mads Pedersen and Jonathan Milan will both hope to lead the sprint line-up, too

Paris police have acknowledged major gaps in the Louvre’s defenses on Wednesday — turning this month’s dazzling daylight theft into a national reckoning over how France protects its treasures

An African staging of Brian Friel’s Translations resonates deeply as the country distances itself from France

For nearly four centuries, the world economy has been on a path of ever-greater integration that even two world wars could not totally derail. This long march of globalisation was powered by rapidly increasing levels of international trade and investment, coupled with vast movements of people across national borders and…

Norman Cook - aka Fatboy Slim - has recalled DJing at former Brazil striker Ronaldo's 2005 wedding in Paris, France, and says it "degenerated into every other wedding" once the drinks began to flow at the reception.

Forty-four French farmers’ organisations have signed an open letter urging President Emmanuel Macron to “clarify” France’s stance and take action to block the South American Mercosur trade agreement, which they regard as both unfair and even dangerous.

A delegation of senators visited the Paris museum and said that its security was "not in line" with modern standards.

Set in Paris, director Boris Lojkine’s latest film follows Souleymane (an astonishing turn from Abou Sangaré), seeking asylum in France as an immigrant from Guinea. Through Souleymane’s eyes, Paris becomes a gritty, unforgiving landscape of danger, fragility and relentless bureaucracy.

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in excavation. The slow, painstaking work of archaeology was rarely headline news. But this was no ordinary dig.