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Medical ethics council rules that assisted suicide be allowed when ailing patients make "persistent, lucid and repeated requests" to end their life.

The French meat processing company knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef, says French government, and its licence is being suspended.

Hopes of economic recovery in eurozone thrown into doubt after figures confirm its two largest economies have performed worse than forecast.

The ex-president, still smarting from his defeat in the 2012, may run for office again in 2017, according to former minister Alain Juppé.

French football braced for another possible child prostitution scandal after it emerged that an international player was under suspicion.

Police tried to stop the man, 43, who was declared ineligible for unemployment benefit, but he doused himself in petrol and set himself alight.

Result is the worst in the firm's history, but France's number one carmaker insists it has built foundations for recovery.

Paris court hands two year jail terms to two members of French charity Zoe’s Ark for trying to smuggle 103 children from Chad to France.

The measure, approved in 329-to-229 vote in National Assembly, puts France on track to join about a dozen nations that allow gay marriage.

New institution in Wembley to be modelled on the oversubscribed £10,000-a-year Lycée Francais Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington.