The Latest Breaking News from Paris

Watch from Paris as French unions lead a march against planned pension reform in a bid to reverse the move.

PARIS: Demonstrators in France took to the streets Saturday for a seventh day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans, with police expecting up to a million people at rallies nationwide.

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the summit in Paris on Lebanon. There’s the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, “Music from Erwan”, and a call to submit essays to The Sound Kitchen essay contests. All that, and the new quiz question, too,…

For solace over the coming days Paris Saint-Germain's owners could head to the last scenes of Monty Python's Life of Brian. There they'll find the lines of condemned men singing: "Always look on the bright side of life."

France is braced for another round of mass strikes and protests this weekend, the second in a week and the seventh since January, as lawmakers continue to debate plans to overhaul the country's pensions system. The upper house of parliament has until Sunday night to finish debating the contested legislation.

The IOC is exploring a pathway which would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Paris Games.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday agreed a new pact worth over 500 million euros to stop illegal cross-Channel migration, at a summit in Paris aimed at forging a new start after years of Brexit tensions.

British PM arrives in Paris for summit with Macron and marks clear departure from Boris Johnson’s stance

The utopian architect and activist Roland Castro, who fought what he called "urban apartheid" in France's working-class suburbs (banlieues), has died in Paris aged 82. A Maoist during the May 1968 protests, he later swung behind centrist Emmanuel Macron.

The United States is Britain’s most important ally. But America, with its vast military, security guarantees and economic might, is lots of countries’ most important ally. As such, our relationship is inherently asymmetrical. We follow their off-year gubernatorial elections, they don’t know where Wales is. Alas, we are more into them…

Dheepthika Laurent takes a look at the latest in the world of arts and culture. Japan's first artificial intelligence-made manga poses serious ethical questions for the industry. In other news, a new Henri Matisse exhibition in Paris looks at the 1930s, an important decade in the artist's career. Plus a…