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Six people have been arrested for attacks on individuals performing the 'quenelle', a gesture associated with anti-Semitism, on social networks.

Not fitting the silhouettes put about by fashion magazines can make being fat synonymous with failure, argue champions of the more rounded.

After winds of up to130 k.p.h. caused havoc in western France, efforts were launched to try to fix damage to electricity network for Christmas.

French statistics institute INSEE predicts growth of 0.2% in 2013, thanks to 0.4% last-quarter growth that followed 0.1% third-quarter contraction.

After the derailment in Drancy, just north of Paris, a fire service official said radiological tests found no leaks.

A ban on Muslim headscarves for volunteer school monitors is maintained, despite a warning by the Council of State that it oversteps the law.

Minister says 500 firms were ordered to meet legal requirements, while private-sector gap between men's and women's salaries is estimated at 27%.

The young couple were shot at close range as they sat at a café terrace in a southern district of the capital, the gunman escaping.

After enjoying years of growing sales and exports, France's Champagne producers see sales falling even further than in 2012.

French president offered his 'sincere regrets' for causing any offence over a joke that his interior minister had survived a trip to Algeria this month.