The aircraft manufacturer and France's national carrier were on Monday cleared of manslaughter charges brought against them for the crash of an Air France overnight flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in May 2009, when the Airbus fell into the sea off Brazil killing all 228 people on board.
French fashion house Dior, part of the LVMH luxury goods group, has been accused of racism on Chinese social media and in the country's press for posting a photo on its Instagram account, which it subsequently removed, of an East Asian model pulling up a corner of her eye, captioned 'Channel your feline fierceness'.
Protesters began gathering outside the Paris City Hall on Friday evening after President Emmanuel Macron's hotly contested legislation to reform the pensions system, which raises for most of the population the age of retirement on full pension rights to 64, was largely approved by France's Constitutional Council: follow this live coverage of reactions by clicking on the link below.
France's Constitutional Council on Friday approved most of the government's controversial legislation reforming the country's pension system, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, while it also rejected an application by opposition groups for a referendum on the issue.
Christian Ducarre, who was on a three-day visit to London to attend his son's wedding, received fines of close to 11,000 pounds (more than 12,000 euros) because the hired car he was driving in the British capital's ultra-low emission zone had not been registered beforehand with the local transport agency, although it fully complied with the environmental requirements to do so for free.
Protest marches against President Emmanuel Macron's pensions system reforms were held across France on Thursday, with turnout ranging between 380,000 and 1.5 million according to the conflicting accounts of police and trades unions, ahead of a crucial ruling by France's Constitutional Council due on Friday on the legality of the legislation and opposition demands for a referendum over the issue.
The Paris home of French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, which has been kept by his actress daughter Charlotte in the same state since his death in 1991, complete with thousands of items including artworks and clothes, and overflowing ashtrays, is to open to the public as the 'Maison Gainsbourg'.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier has strongly denied 'insulting and defamatory remarks' that he had voiced racist comments towards a section of players at his former club Nice following French media reports of an internal complaint made against him by an ex-Nice sporting director.
Christian Ally Moussa, 42, drowned along with about 34 other people when their boat went down off the coast of Madagascar on March 12th as they were attempting to reach the French island of Mayotte, from where he had earlier been deported before he was able to attend a hearing over his application for French citizenship.
French President Emmanuel Macron's two-day state visit to the Netherlands was on Wednesday dogged by further protests over his pension reforms at home, and his controversial comments urging European nations to act independently from the US over increasing tensions between China and Taiwan.
