A preliminary investigation into rape and sexual assault was opened in Paris on July 5 to examine three separate complaints from women involving the filmmaker.
American economist Fiona Scott Morton says she will not take up job as the European Commission's chief competition economist after a political backlash.
While calls for an overhaul of the French police go back decades, violent episodes of police enforcement continue and so do violent outpourings on the street.
All the riders who crashed, about 20 of them, after a fan holded out a phone seeking a selfie, neverthless completed the 179-kilometre stage from Les Gets les Portes du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc in the 15th stage of the gruelling cycling competition.
Jane Birkin, who settled in France in 1968 and soon found fame as a singer and actress during her decade-long relationship with singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, and who later led a successful solo career, was found dead at her Paris home on Sunday.
Benjamin Mendy, 28, whose contract with Manchester City expired this month, was acquitted by a Cheshire court of the rape of one woman and the attempted rape of another, leaving him to walk free after a first trial in January had already cleared him of six other rapes.
Many French cities cancelled their traditional firework shows over a familiar issue in France, social unrest, but also because of the daunting one that is climate change.
Following a week-long series of violent national protests earlier this month over the fatal police shooting of a teenager in a Paris suburb, the authorities have ordered a massive police deployment in face of fears that rioting may erupt once more around the traditional Bastille Day celebrations.
From October, people in France will be able to claim back between 6-25 euros of the cost of mending clothes and shoes in workshops in a government plan aimed at tackling over-consumption and resulting waste, which is estimated to result in a yearly jettisoning of around 7,000 tonnes of clothing.
