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Former football star suggested Didier Deschamps may have left Hatem Ben Arfa and Karim Benzema out of Euro 2016 squad on racial grounds.

Oil refineries, nuclear power plants and transport hubs were hit, motorways and bridges were blocked and protesters clashed with police.

French workers are staging an eighth day of industrial action against labour law reforms as nuclear staff aim to reduce plants' power output.

They say the hundreds of objects to be sold in Paris next week are 'living beings' and that their sale is like the 'slave auctions' of the past.

The structures made from hundreds of stalagmites were discovered in Bruniquel Cave in south-west France and date back 175,000 years.

The number out of work in France fell by 19,900 in April, giving a boost to President Hollande in his fight to bring down unemployment.

Head of France's oil industry federation says country has been using reserves, which could last for three months, for first time since 2010.

In a 3-day hearing more than 1,000 people want details on how their loved ones died and how such a tragedy could have happened in Paris.

Special operations gendarmes, the equivalent of Britain’s SAS, will be among 23,000 police deployed to combat terror threat at July's race.

President Hollande is forced to deny his country faces a ‘May revolution’, comparable to the students and workers’ revolt of May 1968.