A 21-year-old man holidaying on the island of Noirmoutier, western France, drowned after he became stuck in a deep hole he had dug on a beach and was subsequently drowned by the incoming tide.
Four young French adults, two women and two men, who were reportedly driving to a rave party in Italy, have been formally identified as among those who died when a motorway bridge above the port city of Genoa in north-west Italy partially collapsed on Tuesday, sending cars, trucks and rubble crashing 45 metres below.
Residents and shopkeepers on the plush Île Saint-Louis islet in central Paris have voiced outrage at the installation on its streets of so-called 'eco-friendly' street urinals, which are fully exposed, thigh-high red receptacles which transform urine-soaked straw within into compost, have demanded that the City Hall remove them, citing public decency and the dangers of exhibitionism.
French environment minister Nicolas Hulot has applauded a Californian court judgment which found agrochemical giant Monsanto did not warn of the serious health risks of using its herbicide Roundup, ordering it to pay nearly $290 million to a school groundskeeper who developed terminal cancer after using the product, adding that he hoped the ruling 'corrects the indifference of politicians' over the dangers of the weedkiller's key compound glyphosate.
The location in mainland France of a gold and silver statuette of an owl, the prize of an armchair treasure hunt elaborated in a book of 12 riddles, continues to elude a determined group of players 25 years after they first began searching for the precious object, and almost ten years since the death of the author who devised the puzzle.
Ecological transition junior minister Brune Poirson has announced that consumer goods in non-recyclable plastic packaging will as of next year be subject to a 10 percent penalty price hike as part of a French government drive to make all packaging recyclable by 2025.
Charities distributing food to homeless migrants in the French port allege 600 acts of intimidation by officers, including teargassing.
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