The French capital's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has announced that a sports site is to be named after Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who took part in the Olympic Games in Paris and who died this week after she was set on fire allegedly by her former partner.
France's newly appointed prime minister Michel Barnier has pledged to make security, education and reducing immigration the priorities of his government, yet to be announced, and to tell 'the truth about debt, and the truth about environmental debt, which weighs heavy on the shoulders of our children'.
Michel Barnier, 73, a former conservative minister who became the European Union's chief negotiator with the UK over Brexit, was on Thursday appointed as France's new prime minister after two months of political crisis following snap parliamentary elections and a resulting hung parliament.
The makeshift camp which was reportedly the temporary home of victims and survivors of a clandestine crossing by migrants in a dinghy which sank on Tuesday as it travelled from France to Britain, when at least 12 people lost their lives, was evacuated by French police on Wednesday.
The French culture ministry has enterted the zinc rooftops that dominate the Paris skyline, together with the roofers who maintain them, into the competition to figure on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage to be decided by the UN body in December.
At least 12 people have died, and another two are reported missing, after the floor of a dinghy reportedly carrying around 70, mostly Eritrean, migrants let in water shortly into their clandestine journey from France to the English coast.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo has prompted controversy over her decision that the giant Olympic rings fixed to the Eiffel Tower ahead of the summer Olympics and Paralympics in the capital will remain after the games end.
Dominique Pélicot is accused of regulalrly drugging his wife Gisèle to film her in an unconcious state being raped by men he contacted online, 50 of whom are standing trial alongside him in Avignon, southern France.
Organisers of the Paris Paralympics were forced to call off a triathlon event after monitoring tests found the quality of the water in the River Seine was below standards set by the World Triathlon federation, apparently due to spillage following recent heavy rainfall.
In an interview with British daily The Guardian, Lucie Castets, the candidate for prime minister chosen by France's broad leftwing alliance, the New Popular Front, the largest political group in the hung parliament, insists that if appointed, her government would be ready to compromise to get legislation through.
