Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, ranked 47th female tennis player worldwide and who turned 20 during the week, beat Romania's third-seeded Simona Halep in the women's final of the French Open at the Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday, becoming her country's first-ever Grand Slam champion and the first unseeded female player to win the competition since 1933.
A total of 7,882 candidates are standing nationwide in two-round legislative elections beginning Sunday which are expected to produce a thorough renewal of the National Assembly - not least because more than 200 of the outgoing lawmakers are not standing for re-election.
Following US President Donald Trump's announcement the US would withdraw from Paris climate deal pledges, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron invited American scientists to move to France, but some struggling homegrown researchers denounce a stunt.
Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron's fledgling centrist party is tipped by polling organisations to win between 375 and 415 parliamentary seats out of a total of 577 at the end of France's two-round legislative elections which begin on Sunday.
Airbus military aircraft division boss Fernando Alonso said he 'really' hopes that France will join development of a German-Spanish project to build a new fighter aircraft, while adding that Britain's withdrawal from the EU made it 'difficult' to envisage its involvement in the programme.
Press photographer Mathias Depardon, 37, was expected back in France late Friday after a month in detention in south-east Turkey where he was arrested on suspicion of taking part in 'terrorist propoganda' while on an assignement for National Geographic magazine photographing the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
With elections afoot in both their countries, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May each claim to lead the world's fifth-largest economic power, and the plain facts demonstrate that the two economies have very similar performance in a number of areas.
Clotilde Nonnez, a 56-year-old yoga teacher who has lived in Paris for 30 years, claims that she suffers numerous health problems, ranging from chronic asthma to pneumonia, because of the French state's failure to contain pollution in the capital.
