Germany's newly appointed foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel made his first official trip to meet with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault in Paris on Saturday, when the two men said US president Donald Trump's four-month ban on refugees from entering his country 'can only worry us' and goes against western values.
The star of Hiroshima mon amour, Léon Morin, Priest, Thérèse Desqueyroux, and Skylab, who made more than fifty films over a period of almost six decades, found international fame in 2012 in Michael Haneke’s Amour, playing an octogenarian music teacher cared for by her husband, for which she earned an Oscar nomination.
Intensive corn monocultures are depriving wild hamsters of their normally varied food intake, starving them of vital vitamins and causing them to eat their young alive, according to a scientific study of the rodents in northern France by the University of Strasbourg, published by the British Royal Society.
Former economy minister and independent centrist candidate in France's presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron, who increasingly appears to be within reach of the final round of the polling in May, said Britain was 'becoming the junior partner of the United States' after previously living 'in an equilibrium with Europe'.
British daily The Guardian reviews the state of the French Left ahead of this weekend's vote to choose the presidential election candidate for the Socialist Party and its allies.
Restaurants and other caterers will no longer be able to offer unlimited refills of soft drinks in France, where sugared beverages are already the subject of a special tax and are barred from schools, in an effort to reduce obesity.
At the start of a three-month test, two 10-passenger, self-driving vehicles, which are equipped with cameras and lasers to avoid collissions, began operating this week along a dedicated lane running between two railway stations either side of the river Seine.
This spring's presidential elections in France, in which the far-right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen is tipped to reach the second-round playoff, has the potential to set in train the victories of other anti-EU parties in elections across Europe warned Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel.
Public prosecutors on Wednesday announced an investigation into suspected 'misappropriation of public funds' just hours after weekly magazine Le Canard Enchaîné revealed that the wife of former PM François Fillon, now conservative candidate for the presidency, was paid 500,000 euros over eight years as his parliamentary assistant.
François Hollande, on the second leg of a South American tour and who is the first French president to visit Colombia in 30 years, pledged further support for the country's peace process, which it already partly funds, during a visit to a Farc rebel camp.
