US food store chain Whole Foods Market has been widely mocked, not least by French media, after a map display to accompany its promotion of French cheeses situates Normandy's Camembert in the south of France, Basque cheese in the Loire Valley and Burgundy's smelly Epoisse as coming from the Alps.
French defence minister Florence Parly said Tuesday that the country's armed forces are to begin using drones for combat missions for the first time, on top of current surveillance missions, ending debate about pilots operating at a great distance from the battle ground.
French investigators admit that time is running out in their efforts to explain the murders on September 5th 2012 of British-Iraqi family members Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, and her 74-year-old mother, who were shot dead in a layby near the French Alps village of Chevaline along with French cyclist Sylvain Mollier.
French celebrity gossip magazine Closer has been ordered to pay 100,000 euros in damages to the Duchess of Cambridge for publishing pictures of her sunbathing topless while on holiday in Provence in 2012, a sum well below the 1.5 million euros that her lawyer had demanded.
A 34-year-old man has been arrested and placed under investigation for his suspected abduction of nine-year-old Maëlys de Araujo, who disappeared a week ago while she attended a wedding reception, after a sample of her DNA was found in his car which he admits she got into while denying he kidnapped her.
