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Presidential candidate said he had acted legally but admitted making a 'mistake' over payments made to his family for parliamentary work.

Officers stopping youths in Paris suburb and asking to see identity papers allegedly forced a 22-year-old man to the ground and beat him.

Company says it will work with several leading French news organizations to ensure that false news items are not published on its platform.

Mélenchon wants to be seen as key adversary of Marine Le Pen, choosing same city and almost same time as her to launch his campaign.

In keynote speech, Front National presidential candidate told supporters in Lyon that globalisation was slowly choking communities to death.

Centrist presidential candidate calls on those alarmed by Donald Trump’s rhetoric to relocate to the ‘new land of innovation’.

Opinion polls see head of far-right National Front topping the first round of presidential election but losing the run-off to mainstream candidate.

Suspect who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ is said by police to be an Egyptian visitor who arrived in France in January on a visa from Dubai.

Police say the man who was shot and injured had tried to attack a security patrol with a machete shouting "Allahu Akbar".

As French presidential campaign of François Fillon implodes, the Socialist Party’s candidate is slowing emerging as an unlikely contender.