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Officials from about 30 countries are meeting in Paris to plan four years of commemorative events for the 100th anniversary of World War I.

US movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen have each been made Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in recognition of their filmwork.

Thousands of schoolchildren demonstrated in Paris and elsewhere against the expulsion of a girl student to Kosovo and another to Armenia.

France's huge network of tobacconists are to offer a stripped-down banking business as major banks cut back their services in a stagnating economy.

The French branch of the Church of Scientology was found guilty of organised fraud in 2009, a ruling already upheld after a February 2012 appeal.

An archaeological dig in Wiltshire, England, has unearthed evidence of frog legs being eaten in Britain in Mesolithic times.

A reform intended to bolster the finances of France's indebted pension system has been passed by 270 votes in favour and 249 against.

The 54 year-old died after a bull escaped an enclosure and charged him and his wife as they cycled along a lane in the Camargue region.

France, whose troops this year halted an Islamist assault towards Mali's capital, is now in demand from another of its former African colonies.

The controversial new court set up at Charles de Gaulle airport began hearings this week, with the first defendant ordered to return to Senegal.