-
President Nicolas Sarkozy reignites France's long-running battle over Sunday shopping this week as lawmakers begin debate on a bill that would allow more French stores to open on the day of rest.
-
Mark Cavendish leads a sprint into Brignoles on the way to victory in the second stage of the Tour de France.
-
Where do the natives go for outstanding beaches, high culture and top cuisine? Ally Carnwath asked six French insiders for their holiday recommendations.
Newsletter and Feeds
This French Life
This French Forum
France What's On
Selected Articles
Property Buying
Traffic and travel
Translation tool
Online at
July 06, 2009
July 05, 2009
-
The Front National's leader-in-waiting is confident of winning a municipal election today in the classic heartland of French socialism, and pollsters agree with her.
-
Residents of St Marc sur Mer, whose sandy beach and shambolic Hôtel de la Plage won a special place in the hearts of 1950s film buffs, are rebelling against the removal of their village's name from some road signs.
July 04, 2009
-
Calais' intractable problem is worsening – a no-man's land of hundreds of migrants desperate to get to the UK, sleeping rough with no sanitation, plagued with skin disease and cajoled by smugglers and people traffickers.
-
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees wants to offer Ehsan and others like him an escape route. It is trying to encourage them to seek asylum in France and has opened an office in Calais.
-
Lance Armstrong's real intentions at the 2009 Tour de France remained enigmatic as the countdown to today's Grand Départ in Monaco continued.
-
After days of protests at the Marseilles airport by angry Comorans following Tuesday’s crash off the Comoros, Yemenia airlines announced it was suspending flights to and from the Mediterranean port city.
-
Thirteen people were injured Friday with six suffering serious wounds when a train derailed near the south-western French city of Limoges after hitting a trailer.
-
A French court has jailed the Algerian singer Cheb Mami for five years for abducting a former partner and forcing her to undergo an attempted abortion.
-
The report by French crash investigators into the crash of an Air France plane in the Atlantic last month runs to 126 pages. It is remarkably detailed considering how few facts have so far been established.
-
French investigators trying to find out why an Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic say they believe it broke up on contact with water, not in the air.
July 01, 2009
-
French media reports said the rugby player told friends that he was suicidal after being sent home from France’s tour to New Zealand and Australia. LÉquipe, the sporting daily, said he jumped into the Seine at the weekend.
-
Airbus is expected to face calls to ground its worldwide fleet of long-range airliners tomorrow when French accident investigators issue their first account of what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash off Brazil on June 1.
-
Israel's foreign ministry has accused France of unacceptable meddling in its internal affairs over a reported comment by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
-
A Yemeni plane which crashed into the Indian Ocean was banned from France because of "irregularities", the French transport minister has said.
-
A French rescuer said he had spotted the 14-year-old-girl in choppy waters amid bodies and wreckage.
-
A cap on the cost of sending a text message while abroad in the European Union comes into force for the first time.
-
Eurostar told the Commons Home Affairs select committee that under French law it was unlawful for anyone other than law enforcement agencies to collect the information.
-
Algerian singer Cheb Mami is to stand trial in France over allegations that he forced a former partner to undergo an attempted abortion.
-
A Yemeni airliner with many French and Comoran passengers on board crashes in the Indian Ocean
June 30, 2009
-
The trigger event is a 2002 suicide bomb attack on a bus full of French shipyard workers in Karachi.
-
The large-scale national loan outlined by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for financing domestic projects will be created at the beginning of 2010 and will help finance France's future.
-
France's far-right National Front party was in pole position to take its first town council in more than a decade after winning the first round of voting in Henin-Beaumont.
June 29, 2009
-
Guillaume Chauvin and Rémi Hubert, read out a statement admitting to the hoax, stating that they had wanted to make a "powerful artistic gesture" attacking the "voyeurism" and gullibility of parts of the press.
-
The French parliament will debate a bill, brought by parliamentarians, to approve the return of tatooed Maori heads to New Zealand.
-
Threat to livelihood sparks anger in Mediterranean port as celebrities campaign over plight of species.
-
François Fillon said that the only way the government can make its retirement payments is to raise the legal retirement age.
June 28, 2009
-
Polls suggest a majority of Martinique's inhabitants only want greater autonomy and want to remain part of France.
-
Activists campaigning for the abolition of migration controls are holding a demonstration march in Calais.
Other Adverts
Long term rental Dordogne: Family property available, 4 beds, countryside location.
French mortgage services: Advice and best buy table for a French mortgage loan.
Holiday home insurance: Intasure property insurance for gîtes in France.
This French Car Hire: Rent a car from town centres, stations and airports.
Eurostar ticket tips: Book a ticket and make use of simple advice.
