The months following September’s rentrée, when millions return from holidays, will test the resolve of French President Emmanuel Macron, who came to power last year on a pledge to uproot his country’s traditions of work and exclusion and now faces his first major confrontations with public anger and perceptions of entrenched privilege.
Following the death of former UN secretary general and and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan, French President Emmanuel Macron joined a flood of tributes to the Ghanaian, saying, 'We will never forget his calm and strong-willed look, nor the passion he gave for his fights'.
Paris City Hall's 'Project Oasis' is a programme to transform by 2040 all of about 800 concrete schoolyards of the capital into cool spots for respite in periods of extreme heat, and perhaps even bring down temperatures across a city with the lowest proportion of green spaces of any European city.
Air France-KLM has appointed Air Canada’s operations chief Benjamin Smith as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Jean-Marc Janaillac who resigned this year after failing to resolve a series of crippling strikes at the carrier's French arm, but the nomination has met with fierce opposition from unions.
A former US national security official has claimed that President Donald Trump has a 'bizarre' desire to 'constantly' call French President Emmanuel Macron, sometimes for no particular reason and leaving Macron bemused.
A 21-year-old man holidaying on the island of Noirmoutier, western France, drowned after he became stuck in a deep hole he had dug on a beach and was subsequently drowned by the incoming tide.
Four young French adults, two women and two men, who were reportedly driving to a rave party in Italy, have been formally identified as among those who died when a motorway bridge above the port city of Genoa in north-west Italy partially collapsed on Tuesday, sending cars, trucks and rubble crashing 45 metres below.
Residents and shopkeepers on the plush Île Saint-Louis islet in central Paris have voiced outrage at the installation on its streets of so-called 'eco-friendly' street urinals, which are fully exposed, thigh-high red receptacles which transform urine-soaked straw within into compost, have demanded that the City Hall remove them, citing public decency and the dangers of exhibitionism.
French environment minister Nicolas Hulot has applauded a Californian court judgment which found agrochemical giant Monsanto did not warn of the serious health risks of using its herbicide Roundup, ordering it to pay nearly $290 million to a school groundskeeper who developed terminal cancer after using the product, adding that he hoped the ruling 'corrects the indifference of politicians' over the dangers of the weedkiller's key compound glyphosate.
The location in mainland France of a gold and silver statuette of an owl, the prize of an armchair treasure hunt elaborated in a book of 12 riddles, continues to elude a determined group of players 25 years after they first began searching for the precious object, and almost ten years since the death of the author who devised the puzzle.
