Mohamed Amra, 30, who was freed from a prison van in May last year when heavily armed accomplices attacked the vehicle at a motorway toll booth in Normandy, killing two guards and wounding three others, has been arrested in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
The body of British man, who has not been identified but who was reportedly aged 23, has been found at the bottom of a cliff at the popular Avoriaz ski resort in the French Alps, after what local media describe as a likely accidental fall.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hosted a rapidly convened summit with a number of European leaders on the future of the war in Ukraine, and above all a European representative presence alongside Ukraine in what Donald Trump has designated as exclusive peace talks between him and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
'The Mature Age', a bronze sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel, who led a troubled love affair with Auguste Rodin, was discovered under a sheet in an empty Paris apartment and has now fetched 3.1 million euros at an auction in Orléans.
The summit in Paris on Ukraine's future, to be held on Monday afternoon, just as the US and Russia begin exclusive bilateral talks over a ceasfire in Ukraine, will bring together the leaders of Britain, Germany, Poland, Denmark and Italy, as well as Nato's secretary general and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
French customs officers stopped an Italy-bound courier van in southern France for a routine check when they discovered two parcels containing nine dinosaur teeth probably dating back tens of millions of years and originating from what is now Morocco.
Several female cabin crew employed by Air France have told an investigation by public broadcaster Radio France of systemic sexual harassment by male colleagues, including pilots, and alleged that the airline 'protects the abusers, not the hostesses'.
During a phone conversation on Friday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, that Europe 'must be represented at the negotiating table' in any eventual talks for ending the war with Russia.
A French radio station put a volunteer panel of native French speakers through the same test of French-language skills applied to foreigners seeking French nationality or longterm residency, and found that half of the volunteers failed the written exam.
A grenade attack on a bar in Grenoble, south-east France, which left 12 people wounded, two of them critically, is not being treated as a terrorist attack, a local prosecutor said, but as a possible 'settling of scores'.
