The driver of a car which this afternoon rammed a police van on the avenue Champs-Elysées in central Paris before bursting into flames has been pronounced dead in what interior minister Gérard Collomb said was a 'terrorist attack'.
France went back to the polls on Sunday to choose the 577 members of parliament’s lower house, the National Assembly, in the final, decisive second round of legislative elections. The newly-elected centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s fledgling party La République En Marche (LREM) won a majority of seats (351 with its centre-right allies), but well below what was forecast after its score in the first round. The second-placed conservatives did a little better than expected, while the Socialist Party, with 29 seats, has suffered a humiliating defeat, although it has fared better than the radical-left. The far-right has won eight seats. Importantly, turnout was a record low. Follow the results, reactions and analysis as it happened on the night. Reporting by Graham Tearse and Michael Streeter.
Sunday's final round voting to decide the makeup of the new French parliament saw early turnout figures down even further on the historic low seen in the first round, as Emmanuel Macron's party is tipped to win up to 450 seats out od a total 577.
Spanish bullfighter Ivan Fandino, 36, caught his feet in his cloak and fell to the floor, where he was gored by the bull during the Aire-sur-l'Adour bullfighting festival near Pau.
The French government has announced it will give a priority research programme into climate change 30 million euros in public funding, to match what it hopes will be another 30 million from universities and other organisations, making the total funding worth up to 60 million euros.
More than 120 journalists and technicians at the French state-run international channel, which broadcasts 24-hour live news in in French, English and Arabic worldwide, staged a walkout over what they said was the management's failure to implement a 2015 agreement to ease “unsociable and unhealthy” working hours.
Far-right Front National party leader Marine Le Pen once dreamed of leading the principal opposition party to Emmanuel Macron and of marshaling a hundred or more members of parliament to push her party's hard nationalist agenda, but now she could well end up as its only member in the National Assembly.
The great aunt and uncle of Grégory Villemin, a four-year-old who was found dead in a river in eastern France in 1984, have been placed under investigation investigation for "kidnapping leading to death" as a gendarmerie cold-case review attempts to pierce one of the most high-profile French murder mysteries in the last 50 years.
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 44, was left unconscious after she fell over when a man violently confronted her while the conservative former minister was campaigning for next Sunday's legislative elections at a street market in the Latin Quarter of Paris on Thursday morning.
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