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Lawyers of victims of the November 13th 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, which left 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded, say their clients should receive additional compensation for the “very considerable distress” they suffered and victims’ families be compensated for the hardship endured while waiting for news of their loved ones.

A feminist group urged French women to leave work at 4.34 p.m. on Monday to highlight the pay gap between men and women's average hourly wage which, at 15.1% in 2010, means a woman will work 38.2 days more than a man for the same salary.

Neighbours in Dijon had alerted police after noticing a Wi-Fi network with name 'Daesh 21' - Daesh is the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

Mikel Irastorza, aged 41, who has been on the run since 2008, was detained in a house in Ascain, a village near the Pyrénées mountains.

His death brings total number of French military personnel killed in Mali since January 2013, when French operation there began, to 18.

Massive database marks the first time the country has collected population data on such a scale since the start of the Nazi Occupation in 1940.

Some have headed for Grande-Synthe refugee camp at Dunkirk but many migrants are sleeping in ditches near coast and still trying to reach UK.

More than 3,000 migrants have been living in a sprawling camp in the Stalingrad district in the north east of the capital.

France is still Europe's biggest hunting nation with around one million hunters but thirty years ago the numbers were double that.

Frenchman Mehdi Nemmoucheis accused of May 2014 shooting in which an Israeli couple, a French woman and a Belgian man were killed.