French culture minister Rachida Dati, 59, who is eyeing the post of mayor of Paris and who is targeted by an investigation into alleged corruption and influence peddling when hired as a 'consultant' for carmaker Renault, hid jewellery and watches worth more than 400,000 euros from a wealth register all ministers must complete before taking office, according to a press report.
Amid general distaste and even anger in France at Donald Trump's policies and provocative style - an opinion poll in March found 73 percent of thos polled no longer believe Washington to be an ally - US tourists in Paris tell the BBC how they're dressing down to avoid encountering animosity.
French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen, who has appealed her conviction for diverting European Parliament funds for the benefit of her party, when she was handed a five-year ban from holding public office, which would prevent her running in presidential elections in 2027, has shed her previously adopted toned-down language and embraced a Trump-like fury against 'the system', now used as a byword for so-called plotting of the deep state and political judges.
A French court has ordered the online property rentals platform Airbnb to pay the local municipal authorities of Oléron, a small island off the Atlantic coast popular with holidaymakers, more than 8 million euros in unpaid tourist taxes.
President Emmanuel Macron said France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a United Nations conference in New York in June, when it would become the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to do so.
An association representing private forest owners in France, many of who are smallholders, has warned of gangs of thieves who are secretly felling trees, mostly oaks, in isolated sites and then export them, principally to China.
As of the start of the new academic year in September, French 'collèges' - secondary schools for 11- to 15-year-olds - will require pupils to lock away their mobile phones during school hours following the reported success of local trials.
The three-month trial of Nicolas Sarkozy and three of his former ministers on charges of corruption related to the alleged funding of his 2007 election campaign by the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi drew to a close in Paris on Tuesday, when the former French president, given the opportunity to deliver a final comment, described the prosecution case as being 'political and violent'.
French president Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday wound up a two-day visit to Cairo where he held talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II on the situation in Gaza, when the three issued a statement calling for the 'immediate' return of a ceasefire.
A recycling plant in north-west Paris, treating the domestic waste of around 900,000 people, was completely destroyed by a fire that began in the early evening of Monday, sending thick clouds of smoke over the capital for several hours.
