French member of parliament Sandrine Josso, 48, has detailed how a senator allegedly spiked her glass of Champagne with ecstasy, and how its effects left her in fear of having a heart attack.
A French pilot with a skydiving school in south-west France has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he decapitated a skydiver with the wing of his plane moments after the latter had jumped out.
A report published by Unicef, the United Nations agency for children's welfare, highlights the plight of the young in a number of France's overseas territories, where poverty is exacerbated by limited access to healthcare and education.
One of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's distinctive bicorne hats has been sold at an auction in Fontainebleau, near Paris, for 1.9 million euros to an unanmed buyer.
The French defence ministry on Sunday announced a successful test flight of an upgraded long-range ballistic missile, designed to carry nuclear warheads and be launched from submarines.
Director Ridley Scott's latest film, Napoleon, which has been largely acclaimed by critics ahead of its launch in cinemas later this month, has attracted positive reaction in France from historians and Napoleonic associations for prompting fresh interest in the controversial emperor.
Centre-right senator Joël Guerriau, 66, has been placed under investigation on suspicion of spiking Member of Parliament Sandrine Josso's glass of Champagne with the drug ecstacy.
A group of 12 NGOs active in assisting asylum seekers living in insanitary conditions in northern France, most waiting for the weather to ease before attempting to cross the Channel to the UK, have warned government officials that there situation has become 'catastrophic'.
In its latest annual report, major French charitable organisation Secours Catholique sounds the alarm over rising poverty in France which it says worst affects women and children, notably those in one-parent households.
After her move to ban the rental of electric scooters was approved in a referendum earlier this year, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced another referendum of the capital's inhabitants for next February in which she will seek approval to raise parking fees for SUVs.
