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Trial begins of 22 gang leaders of a child pickpocketing ring said to have been behind 75 percent of the thefts on the Paris metro.

The same-sex marriage bill's passed, but the deep social and political divisions surrounding it will prove a challenge to resolve.

President François Hollande has urged France to put the divisive gay marriage debate behind it, calling for 'calm, understanding and respect'.

The British soldiers, killed in action during WWI, have been buried with full military honours after their remains were found in a field in 2009.

French magistrates have opened an investigation into alleged illegal solicitation of clients and money laundering by the HSBC bank.

The French embassy in Tripoli was targeted by a car bomb on Tuesday, injuring two French guards and causing significant material damage.

Tributes pour in for François Jacob, a Free French fighter whose later work in genetics earned him a share of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

In French rural heartlands, the Jérôme Cahuzac scandal and the growing economic crisis has deepened disillusionment and anger at political class.

Two days before a final vote onFrance's same-sex marriage bill, thousands of opponents demonstrated in Paris in a last bid to block the legislation.

France's same-sex marriage bill has prompted vigorous national debate but, unlike in other countries, the world of showbiz has kept out of the fray.