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Several senior membners of France's far-right party, the former Front National now renamed the Rassemblement National, which claims on opinion survey results to be the country's most popular opposition party, went on trial in Paris on Wednesday accused of a scam to defraud the electoral subsidies accorded to political parties in the 2012 national election campaigns.

Yvette Lundy, a major figure of the French Resistance movement during the German occupation of France during WWII, who was responsible for saving members of Jewish families, men fleeing forced labour, and escaped prisoners of war, and who herself was a survivor of the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp, has died at her home in northern France, aged 103.

French singer and actress Marie Laforêt, who opened up French pop music and la chanson française to inspiration from American and European folk music, and who was a prolific actress in French cinema, has died at the age of 80 in Switzerland where she had set up home.

Iran's supreme leader said the French president was either naive or 'complicit with America'.

Corporal Ronan Pointeau died near Menaka in eastern Mali after his armoured vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb.

Ministers hope to redress situation in Seine-Saint-Denis with raft of new measures, including €10,000 bonuses for civil servants working in area.

Calais port chief Jean-Marc Puissesseau says Brexit delays have fouled up budget planning.

Finance minister Bruno Le Maire said planned merger provided 'critical size to face the dual challenges of autonomous vehicles and electric cars'.

France is experiencing a  'venomous national debate' that is scrambling questions over the headscarf, Islam, immigration and radicalization.

France saw national output rise 0.3% in the third quarter - defying forecasts for slightly slower growth.