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PM Jean-Marc Ayrault says he and justice minister Christiane Taubira knew of phone-tapping on February 26, contrary to what she had said before.

France’s regional tourism body declares that Paris has knocked London off the top spot for the world’s most popular city.

Judges say investigators can keep his diaries - initially confiscated during an inquiry into alleged election illegal funding - to help in other probes.

Some observers suggest that the return to just three main mobile phone operators will reduce competition and be bad news for French consumers.

Foreign minister Laurent Fabius warns measures against Russia could kick in soon if Moscow does not respond to Western proposals to solve crisis.

Website has launched a poster campaign called 'We will not be silent, O France' over French intervention in Mali and the Central Africa Republic.

Temperatures in the French capital reached 21.6 degrees Celsius, beating the 1880 record of 20.7 degrees Celsius, according to Meteo France.

The country's statistics office also says that French industrial output began the year on a weak footing due to a slowdown in energy production.

The move comes three years after railway formally admitted it transported thousands of Jews to their deaths during the Second World War.

Religious, emotional and practical reasons are behind the trend that has developed over the past decade, even involving reburial from French graves.