More than 400 US citizens of Yazidi origin have filed a civil suit in a New York court against French concrete maker Lafarge over its dealings with the Islamic State group to keep a cement plant open during the Syrian civil war.
As restoration work on the Paris landmark, which was severely damaged by fire in April 2019, continues apace ahead of its planned re-opening next year, a new phoenix-like sculpture of a cock was this weekend hoisted on top of the cathedral's equally new spire.
The former French tennis champion, who was ranked world number three at the height of his career in the 1980s, and who has skippered his country's Fed Cup and Davis Cup teams to victory, has been appointed captain of France's men's wheelchair tenis team ahead of next summer's Paralympic games in Paris.
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the recent apparent suicide of Emmanuelle Debever, a former actress who accused French actor Gérard Depardieu, currently facing multiple sexual abuse claims, of sexually assaulting her during the making of the feature film Danton.
Alex Batty, from the English town of Oldham, who was allegedly abducted in 2017 at the age of 11 by his mother and grandfather, has reportedly been found in south-west France.
The planned naming of a metro station after the late singer-songwriter, a major figure of France's post-war musical scene, has prompted an online petition against the move which cites his alleged "violence towards women and his paedophile criminal and even incestuous tendencies".
The incident in the northwestern city of Rennes is the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.
Teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work as the establishment grappled with a crisis sparked by the showing in class of a painting containing several nude women.
President Macron then rejected the offer from interior minister Gérald Darmanin to step down, instead ordering him to find new ways to break the deadlock and push the legislation through.
France's President Macron wants to reform immigration law with stricter deportation measures; the new proposed legislation will be debated in the National Assembly this Monday.
