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An open-ended strike by non-medical staff in medical laboratories has been announced for May in a wage dispute.

An American woman who has accused Mohamed Al-Fayed of sexual assault after being recruited in Paris has spoken of the pain of the late Egyptian-born businessman never being held to account.

Local authorities in south-west France have joined a scheme to suspend the licences of anyone caught using a phone while driving - even if they have an otherwise clean licence.

The French city of Lyon is set to release 200,000 sterile male tiger mosquitoes, using a new technology to control the population of irritating biting bloodsuckers.

The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for celebrating everything from cross-dressing ballad singers to heavy metal bands in monster masks, but geopolitics is threatening its 70th anniversary edition.

A maze of over 40,000 kilometres (25,000 miles) of pipes located at the mouth of the Seine where it spills into the Channel, the TotalEnergies refinery is working full throttle to keep planes flying and trucks running.

The first of May’s numerous public holidays, a big week for sports fans, new fees for driving licences and carte de séjour kick in — and household gas prices are set to rise

What’s happening in France in May, the summer’s big festivals, what the new pet passport rules mean for travel between UK and France, and electronic billing for self-employed workers in France.

French prosecutors said Friday they had charged 88 people over a spate of kidnappings related to cryptocurrency, including more than 10 minors.

France has charged a policeman suspected of fracturing the skull of a 19-year-old woman during a 2018 beating, in a landmark case of alleged police brutality, prosecutors said Friday.

French prosecutors said Friday they had requested a new murder trial for serial killer Francis Heaulme over a killing committed in 1989.

A French court on Friday sentenced a former high school student to 15 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of his Spanish teacher in 2023.

In France, sometimes three's a crowd - linguistically speaking.

After weeks of confusion and mixed messages to Americans in France, La Poste has clarified the rules for mailing letters and documents to the US.

It's been an on-again, off-again plan, but from May 2026 a fee will be applied to anyone who needs to swap their foreign driving licence for a French one.

The French government has significantly increased the fees for residency permits and French citizenship from May - here's a breakdown of the new fees.

The tiny statelet nestled in the Pyrenees mountains that mark the border between France and Spain will be getting a visit from its French 'co Prince' this week – but what else is there to know about Andorra?

Tiger mosquitoes - which can spread potentially fatal diseases including dengue, zika and chikungunya - have now colonised almost all of mainland France.

French drivers don't exactly have the best reputation, but that doesn't mean that there are no rules in place on the roads in France. Here's a guide to driving offences and how many points they will cost you if you have a French licence.