France

After three harrowing years in Chinese re-education camps, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uighur woman who had been lured back to China from France only to be arrested, interrogated and abused, recounts her ordeal in a just published book.

Lupin, Marseille, Call My Agent - French Netflix series are making waves abroad, so is the streaming giant making French TV go global?

Cities, towns and villages across France were practically empty on Saturday as residents stayed home and businesses shut to observe a nationwide curfew intended to help stem the spread of coronavirus, especially a more infectious variant.

A 6pm-6am nighttime curfew will be imposed across France from Saturday evening. Here's how it works including the eight reasons that allow you to be outside your home.

With restaurants, bars, cafés, cinemas and theatres all shut the choices for a Saturday night are frankly quite limited in France at present. But can you still order yourself some nice takeout food under the new 6pm curfew?

Snow turned Paris into a winter wonderland on Saturday as an icy spell left parts of the centre and north of the country on alert.

These charts show how the Covid-19 second wave continues to hit countries around Europe as governments try slightly different approaches to deal with the pandemic. Here's a round up of the latest Covid- 19 rates and restrictions around Europe.

The comedy, whose fourth series hits Netflix this week, shows France’s TV can match its filmFast approaching 50 and fed up after two exhausting decades at Artmedia, the top talent agency in Paris, Dominique Besnehard decided, one day in 2005, that he would quite like to turn his hand to producing something of his own.“At the time,” Besnehard told Le […]

Detectives seek to establish if former president was employed to lobby on behalf of the firmThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a preliminary investigation for influence peddling in connection with a €3m (£2.7) contract he signed with a Russian insurance company.The rightwing politician reportedly received a first payment of €500,000 […]

When it comes to energy efficiency, France is lagging behind its European neighbours, trailing Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Nearly seven million French people live in residences known as "passoires énergétiques" or energy sieves. These homes have an energy rating of F or G, meaning it's too cold in winter, too hot in summer […]

The French state weather forecaster has issued a warning for snow and ice for the Paris region and the northern Hauts-de-France this weekend.

Child was buried at beginning of first century surrounded by vases and animal offeringsFrench archaeologists have hailed the “exceptional” discovery of the 2,000-year-old remains of a child buried with animal offerings and what appears to have been a pet dog.The child, believed to have been around a year old, was interred at the beginning of the first […]

Eurostar, the train operator that runs services through the Channel Tunnel, is in 'a very critical' state after a collapse in travel between Britain and the European continent, a top French rail executive warned on Friday.

As France rolls out its Covid-19 vaccination campaign, here's what non-French people need to know about getting the injection.

Officers were involved in 2017 arrest of Théo Luhaka, who was left permanently disabledA police disciplinary board in France is reported to have recommended that two officers involved in the violent arrest of a young black man, who was allegedly sexually assaulted with a truncheon, be let off with a reprimand.Théo Luhaka, who was 22 at the time of the […]

French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday that a 6pm to 6am nighttime curfew will be extended throughout mainland France and warned that if epidemic detioriated then a new lockdown would be imposed.

If you are a food lover, or if you know someone who is, this French expression may come in handy.

Centred on a sex-assault case involving former French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn, this docuseries reveals worryingly outdated attitudesMost people will have only the haziest recollection of the fallout that occurred after the French presidential hopeful and then head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of […]

Sanofi, France's biggest pharmaceutical company, could help produce foreign-developed Covid-19 vaccines pending the launch of its own vaccine, which will not be ready for months, a government minister said on Friday.

People traveling from non-EU countries to France will no longer be allowed enter by presenting a negative result from a quick COVID-19 test, but cross-Channel truck drivers will be exempt, the French government said on Friday.

French prosecutors said Friday they have opened a probe into alleged influence-peddling against former president Nicolas Sarkozy, adding a new legal woe for an ex-leader already mired in judicial troubles.

The north and east of France has seen heavy snowfalls overnight as more snow is forecast for the north of the country over the weekend.

Call for world leaders to act in wake of French extradition case that turned on environmental concernsAir pollution does not respect national boundaries and environmental degradation will lead to mass migration in the future, said a leading barrister in the wake of a landmark migration ruling, as experts warned that government action must be taken as a […]

There are a range of ways to talk about the human behind in France. Here's a list of some of the most common ones.

Transport secretary plays down reports that France will demand PCR test, which can take daysCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritish lorry drivers crossing the Channel to France will be exempt from requiring a PCR coronavirus test, the transport secretary has indicated.Grant Shapps said PCR tests would be required for passengers […]