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Foreign minister Laurent Fabius warns measures against Russia could kick in soon if Moscow does not respond to Western proposals to solve crisis.

Website has launched a poster campaign called 'We will not be silent, O France' over French intervention in Mali and the Central Africa Republic.

Temperatures in the French capital reached 21.6 degrees Celsius, beating the 1880 record of 20.7 degrees Celsius, according to Meteo France.

The country's statistics office also says that French industrial output began the year on a weak footing due to a slowdown in energy production.

The move comes three years after railway formally admitted it transported thousands of Jews to their deaths during the Second World War.

Religious, emotional and practical reasons are behind the trend that has developed over the past decade, even involving reburial from French graves.

Bouygues Telecom's offer to sell its mobile network to Iliad, owner of Free, is dependent upon regulators approving its bid for Vivendi's SFR.

The Belgian opera company leader, who managed some of the world's greatest houses including the Paris Opera, was suffering from cancer.

Across the French capital, rated one of the most expensive to live in worldwide, examples abound of illegal rentals of cupboard-space lodgings.

Three paintings are to be returned to their rightful owners the day before the release of a film about a WWII army unit dedicated to saving artworks.