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French president insists makeshift migrant camp will be 'definitively' dismantled, as issue looks set to be a theme in 2017 presidential election.

The reported request to Swiss authorities to hand over client information for the bank accounts is part of a French probe into alleged tax fraud.

French ambassador to UN said Syrian government is targeting civilians in the city, where 250,000 people live under siege conditions.

The Sunday car ban covered larger part of the city than last year's event, closing off more than 400 miles of roads in fight against air pollution.

The charismatic former president’s declining health continues to dominate French front pages a week after being admitted for a lung infection.

Villagers in the Loire Valley are outraged that a small local château is to be France's first Centre for Prevention, Integration and Citizenship.

During a visit to a refugee reception centre in Tours, west-central France, President François Hollande said that about 9,000 migrants living rough in the Channel port would soon be dispersed to similar centres around the country.

Ed Llewellyn, David Cameron's former chief-of-staff with whom he attended the elite Eton College and who was given a peerage just weeks ago, has been appointed to replace Julian King who takes up a post as EU Commissioner for security issues.

At the start of a visit to Senegal, Manuel Valls dismissed comments by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, campaigning in a bid to retake power, who said the ancestors of all French nationals are the Gauls, saying 'our country’s strength is its diversity'.

The Versailles appeal court ruled that Kerviel, who was previously ordered to pay back 4.9 billion euros he was accused of having cost the Société Générale in rogue trading in 2008, should now pay back just 1 million euros.