French footballer Karim Benzema, who plays for Real Madrid and the France national team, has been handed a one-year suspended jail term and a fine of 75,000 euros after he was found guilty by a Versailles court of conspiring with others to blackmail a team-mate over a sexually explicit video found on his mobile phone.
As talks over their demands for the granting of more post-Brexit fishing licences in UK waters appear deadlocked, French fishers say they are ready to mount targeted blockades to stop freight crossing the Channel.
A recent series of violent incidents during football matches in France's top-flight Ligue 1, the latest on Sunday when Marseille's Dimitri Payet was hit on the head by a bottle thrown by a Lyon fan, is placing at stake 'the survival of French soccer' said sports minister Roxana Maracineanu.
France has sent police reinforcements, including elite units, to its Caribbean island La Guadeloupe after a week of riots escalated this weekend, amid protests against the introduction of restrictions on movement to counter the coronavirus epidemic, and to a background of long-simmering social unrest.
After Covid-19 restrictions last winter caused a collapse in earnings for French ski resorts, they begin reopening this month for what one official at Val d'Isère said was a 'crucial' season for local businesses.
A 70-year-old man hunting wild boar in a hillside forest in south-west France was left badly wounded after a female brown bear, who was reportedly with two cubs, attacked him before he was able to shoot the animal dead.
French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has joined in an MP's campaign against the venerable Petit Robert dictionary for including the pronoun 'iel', a mix of 'elle' and 'il', saying that what has become called 'inclusive' writing 'is not the future of the French language'.
French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has announced plans to develop teaching in secondary schools of Latin and ancient Greek so that pupils will 'develop their culture'.
Sportswear and equipemnt retailer Decathlon has halted sales of canoes in its stores in northern France to prevent them being used in dangerous crossings of the Channel by migrants seeking to reach Britain.
A makeshift camp near the French port of Dunkirk, where an estimated 1,500 migrants hoping to cross the Channel to Britain had gathered, has been evacuated by police.
