French President Emmanuel Macron, inaugurating his project of a centre documenting and celebrating the French language, dismissed what he called the 'fashionable trend' gaining ground in the country for writing words in a form that includes the masculine and feminine, such as habitant.e instead of either 'habitant' or 'habitante' or iel in place of 'il' and 'elle', and which the Academie Française has called a 'mortal peril'.
Seven people were in police custody on Monday over disturbances before a football match, subsequently cancelled, between League 1 sides Marseille and Lyon, notably an attack with beer bottles and stones on a bus carrying Lyon coach Fabio Grosso, whose facial injuries required urgent medical attention, including 12 stitches.
President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that the process of enshrining the right to abortion in France's constitution was underway, promising on social media that 'in 2024, the right of women to choose abortion will become irreversible'.
In a part of south-west France which was swept by massive forest fires last year, the maritime pines still standing are now threatened by an outbreak of stenographer bark beetles, a brown, airborne insect measuring half-a-centimetre which spreads after attacking pines damaged by fire or storm.
Vincent Reynouard, 54, a French secondary school teacher who fled to Scotland after he was convicted in his native country on two charges relating to Holocaust denial, has said he will appeal a Sheriff's order for his extradition.
Rédoine Faïd, a 51-year-old French armed robber whose dramatic jailbreaks earned him the nickname of 'getaway king', has been handed a 14-year prison sentence by a Paris court for his 2018 escape by helicopter from a prison where he was already serving 25 years for a botched heist in which a policewoman was killed.
The French government has allowed hunters to continue using horizontal net traps to catch wild birds, mostly thousands of skylarks, in what it called a temporary 'experimental study' and which one leading bird protection activist called 'unworthy of a country that claims to be a leader in the recovery of biodiversity'.
A French navy helicopter-carrier, the Tonnerre, has left its home port of Toulon for Gaza where, President Emmanuel Macron has announced, it will 'support' overwhelmed hospitals in the bomb-pounded Palestinian enclave with medical supplies and, if required, provide on-board hospital care for civilians.
French President Emmanuel Macron, during whistlestop visits to meet leaders in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, when he declared France's 'full solidarity' with Israel but called on it to refrain from any massive invasion of Gaza, has proposed the creation of a 'regional and international coalition' against the Hamas group that rules over the Palestinian enclave.
US actor Dwayne Johnson has asked the Musée Grevin gallery in Paris to modify his waxwork effigy, presented to the public this month, over 'some important details, starting with my skin colour'.
