France's junior minister for digital affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, has told Apple it must halt sales of its iPhone 12 after the country's radio frequency watchdog found that it emits excessive amounts of electromagnetic radiation, which Apple disputes.
The widow and daughter of French tycoon Bernard Tapie, whose chequered life included a conviction for match-fixing, a ministerial post, ownership of Adidas and an order to repay around 400 million euros awarded to him from the public purse in questionable circumstances, have sharply criticised Netflix over a biographical series about his life, due to begin on Wednesday, and for which they say they were never consulted.
A 24-year-old woman who was hit in the head on Sunday evening in her bedroom in Marseille by what police believe was a stray bullet fired in clashes between drug gangs, and which regularly blight the southern port city, died on Tuesday.
Paris has fewer green spaces than London, Madrid or Berlin, and in the search for more of them as summers become increasingly hot, portions of a disused, overgrown circular railway line around the capital are being opened to the public.
French actor and filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz said the serious motorbike accident he had earlier this month on a closed circuit, and which led doctors to consider amputating part of his leg, was because he was an 'idiot' and wanted to be a 'superhero' for his daughter following behind.
Marion Maréchal, the niece of Marine Le Pen, figurehead of the far-right Rassemblement National, is to be the lead candidate for its far-right rival party - Reconquête, led by the polemicist Éric Zemmour - during elections to the European Parliament next year.
As French schools returned for the new academic year this week, the education authorities said almost 300 girls nationwide turned up for classes on Monday wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, despite a new ban on the garment as part of the country's secularist rules prohibiting the wearing of ostentious religious dress or insignia.
The French government has prepared a decree banning vegetarian products from being sold using labels associated with meat products, such as 'steak', but now awaits confirmation it abides by European Union legislation.
Massive security measures were in place on Tuesday as Rédoine Faïd, 51, and 11 accused accomplices went on trial in Paris for his dramatic escape from prison in 2018 using a hijacked helicopter, the second time the armed robber had broken out of jail in audacious circumstances.
French film actress Emmanuelle Béart, 60, reveals during a documentary she co-directed about incest that she was herself sexually abused by an unnamed family member as a child, but insisted it was not her late father, the singer and songwriter Guy Béard.
