Eiffel Tower security guards found two US men early in the morning in a non-public spot between the second and third floors of the 330-metre-tall tower, apparently after sleeping off a drinking binge the night before.
France's Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) raised the alarm in an appeal for funds to help “saturated” refuges after it had accepted 12,000 animals since the beginning of summer, many of them abandoned by holidaymakers.
Britain's King Charles III is to make a three-day official visit to France, together with Queen Consort Camilla, in late September, according to French media reports, after a planned visit to the country in March was postponed due to disruption caused by protests against Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms.
French medical authorities have reported a rise in Covid-19 infections since the beginning of August just as a new and more transmissible variant of the virus, codenamed 'Eris', appears to be establishing itself as dominant.
French authorities said six Afghan men thought to be in their 30s died, and two other people remain missing, after a boat carrying more than 60 migrants attempting to cross the Channel to the UK sank off the French coast in the early hours of Saturday.
More than 600 French hairdresser businesses went into lquidation in the first half of the year, in part explained by a new fashion among women, post-Covid lockdowns, for longer hair, the constraints of exceptional inflation and an underlying surplus of salons.
Former Ireland international Ronan O’Gara, now coach for French rugby club La Rochelle, has become an internet and social media star after a video began circulating showing him giving the team a rousing pre-match pep talk in expletive-laden franglais, telling them 'L’opportunité est fucking énorme'.
The large rural gite in Alsace, north-east France, where 11 people among a holidaying group of 28, mostly made up of adults with learning difficulties, died in a blaze on Wednesday, not meet a number of safety requirements, notably an insufficient smoke alarm system and no authorisation to host such a large number of guests, a local prosecutor said on Thursday.
The bodies of 11 people, who were part of a holidaying group of adults with learning difficulties, have now been recovered from the remains of a large rural gite in Alsace, north-east France, which was gutted by fire early on Wednesday morning.
Five police officers were taken into custody on Tuesday for questioning over the death of a young man in Marseille who, it is suspected, died from a heart attack after being hit by a police rubber bullet during rioting in the southern port city on July 1st.
