Tunisian national Anis Amri, 24, who was shot dead by Italian police in Milan on December 23rd, was caught on CCTV footage at a central rail station in the French city of Lyon after escaping from Germany where he was wanted on suspicion of killing 12 people in an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.
Far-right Front National party member Julien Sanchez, mayor of Beaucaire in southern France, has renamed a street in his town 'rue du Brexit' in what he said was a tribute to the British referendum in June which saw a majority in favour of leaving the European Union.
Makers of the headgear once popular among 19th-century peasants and which has long symbolised a now bygone rural France have for decades been in decline, but now one is making a comeback with models for fashionistas that can fetch up to 1,000 euros.
Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the resulting fall in the value of sterling have caused it to fall behind France in a world economic ranking produced by the independent think-tank CEBR, which also predicts strong rise in Asian economies over the coming years.
Coville, 48, shaved five days off the previous record, set in 2008, when he arrived back in his native region of Brittany, north-west France, on Sunday after 49 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes and 38 seconds circumnavigating the world without stopping.
A 19-year-old man was shot dead in a café in the Mediterranean port in an attack by three men who the local prosecutor said are also suspected of kidnapping an aquaintance who was with him.
French and Malian troops are searching for Sophie Pétronin, who ran an NGO helping children suffering from malnutrition, who was kidnapped in the city of Gao in northern Mali on Christmas Eve.
Fugitive Anis Amri, the Tunisian wanted as the main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack on Monday which left 12 people dead, was shot and killed by police in Milan early on Friday after entering Italy via the French town of Chambéry, in the south-east Savoie region, according to Italian officials.
The Front National has seen its requests for a loan for the presidential electon campaign of its leader, Marine Le Pen, turned down by French banks, said the party's secretary-general, who claimed that political motives were behind the lenders' refusal.
The 2,800 square metres of electricity-generating panels are laid along a stretch of road in the village of Tourouvre-au-Perche in a two-year test to see if they can provide power for street lighting.
Newly-elected French rugby federation head Bernard Laporte said the national team is to end selecting foreign players who, under current rules, may play for France if they have resided in the country for more than three years and have not previously been selected for any other national team.
In a rare move, General Pierre de Villiers wrote an appeal in French financial daily Les Echos calling for military spending to increase to 2% of GDP over the next five years, including an upgrading of nuclear arsenals, in order to protect France from against "the full spectrum of threats".
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