France's 34-year-old education minister is appointed as the country's new prime minister and the first to be gay. It's seen as a move by Emmanuel Macron to boost his party's popularity ahead of European elections in June.
Fifty specialists on addiction have written an open letter, lamenting the lack of government support for the post-festivity no-drinks campaign in France.
The Court of Accounts, which audits spending in France, said intelligence provided by the UK to French police was often "first level" and "very general".
The more than 300 Indian nationals travelling aboard a chartered Airbus en-route for Nicaragua which was briefly impounded during a refueling stop last week in France over suspicions of human trafficking are believed to have been hoping to benefit from Managua's relaxed entry visa requirements in order to later reach the US.
All Eurostar services between London and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam were cancelled on Saturday due to the flooding of a rail tunnel under the River Thames, leaving thousands of passengers stranded on both sides of the Channel.
Nicolas Lerner, 45, current boss of France's domestic intelligence agency, will in January take up his new post as head of the foreign intelligence services, the DGSE, which has latterly been blamed for failing to anticipate the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and which faces major challenges in West Africa following recent coups in several former French colonies in the region.
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, 70, whose grandfather Eugène Schueller created the cosmetics giant L'Oréal, has seen her wealth grow this year to 100 billion dollars, the largest fortune of any woman past or present, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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