France is to lend Britain the 70-metre-long, 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry that depicts the invasion of Britain and victory of Norman King William the Conqueror over Anglo-Saxon King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, although it will take several years to ensure it when it is safe to move it.
The French government has announced that a five-decade plan to build a major airport hub at Notre-Dames-des-Landes, close to Nantes in north-west France has been abandoned after fierce opposition by environmentalists.
Abdullah Dilsouz, a 15-year-old Afghan who had a legal right to enter the UK under family reunification legislation, was one of three asylum-seekers to be killed over recent weeks on the roads around the French port, as NGOs say migrants are taking increasing risks to cross the Channel amid worsening living conditions.
French President Emmanuel Macron, visiting the Channel port of Calais on Tuesday, insisted that migrants seeking to cross to Britain would be prevented from regrouping in camps akin to the infamous 'Jungle', once home to 7,000 people, which was demolished in 2016.
French actress Catherine Deneuve, who last week sparked a feminist backlash as one of 100 prominent women who signed an open letter denouncing a new 'puritanism' sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals, has apologised to victims of 'hideous acts' who might have felt hurt by her stand.
Referee Tony Chapron, who kicked out at Diego Carlos of Nantes after the two collided during Sunday's match against Paris Saint-Germain, and who then handed Carlos a second yellow card, has been suspended by the French Football Federation 'until further notice'.
Prison staff unions protesting against undermanning and insecurity in France's notoriously overpopulated jails vowed to continue with their blockades of penitentiaries, prompted by an attack by a prisoner that left three guards wounded last week, until their demands for improved working conditions are met.
Divorcee and law graduate Patricia Dagorn, 57, is accused of murdering two elderly men and the poisoning of two others on the French Riviera in order to gain access to their wealth.
A French judicial investigation into claims relayed by the United Nations that several French soldiers engaged in a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic perpetrated rape and sexual abuse of minors between 2013 and 2014 has been wound down after magistrates ruled there was insifficient evidence to support a prosecution.
