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Five people identified as Eta suspects in a surveillance video were in fact Catalonian firemen on holiday
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The message on Twitter by Aude Baron, a French online journalist, and repeated by other reporters, set the internet alight.
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Kevin Rushby thought he didn't get on with horses. But a two-day ride across beautiful countryside of Provence was the start of a new love affair
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There are more and more French speakers in the world, the International Organisation of La Francophonie - which represents the French-speaking world - said as it turns 40 this year.
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According to the local government body the Association des Maires de Grandes Villes de France, local councils contributed about €4m to the cost of the prevention campaign, such as hiring temporary staff and paying overtime.
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March 21, 2010
March 20, 2010
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A consortium led by Thales Alenia Space of France will enter into negotiations for a 1.3bn-euro (£1.2bn) contract to build Europe's next weather satellites.
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A court in Normandy on Thursday convicted a 38-year-old woman of killing six of her newborn babies – a crime she acknowledged – and sentenced her to 15 years in prison.
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Officials from both countries have discussed a deterrent-sharing scheme but Britain has so far opposed the idea
March 19, 2010
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French MPs are calling for bordellos to return to France more than 60 years after they were banned.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has repeated calls to postpone an international ban on trade in bluefin tuna until after the release of a scientific report on the fish due next year.
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French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade says the future of Paris Saint Germain football club is "at stake" after a fan dies of injuries sustained during clashes between rival supporter groups.
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France on Thursday vowed a "merciless" campaign to stamp out ETA on its soil after a member of the Basque separatist group was accused of shooting dead a French policeman.
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France coach Marc Lievremont has hit out after receiving letters claiming Guadeloupe-born back Mathieu Bastareaud shows a lack of allegiance to France.
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Veteran feminist politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil Wednesday becomes an "immortal", as members of France’s most prestigious intellectual club, the Académie Française, are known
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Edonys, a private group which hopes to start broadcasting later this year, has been warned by France’s Higher Audiovisual Council that it will receive authorisation only if it drops plans for programmes featuring wine-tastings and expert discussions.
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An aid worker with joint UK-French nationality has been freed in Sudan's Darfur region after five months.
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A disturbing French TV documentary has tried to demonstrate how well-meaning people can be manipulated into becoming torturers or even executioners.
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French photographer Sophie Ristelhueber has won this year's Deutsche Borse Photography prize.
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Lalie Walker wrote latest thriller as a tribute to a Montmarte fabric store, but store's owners say the book is defamatory
March 18, 2010
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Lalie Walker wrote latest thriller as a tribute to a Montmarte fabric store, but store's owners say the book is defamatory
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A small and shrinking newspaper with roots going back to the French Resistance was reborn Wednesday thanks to a risky euro50 million ($68.78 million) bet by one of Russia's most influential tycoons.
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Police have arrested five people in Spain and France who are linked to the kidnapping of a 5-year-old British boy in Pakistan
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A phone call made from Spain instructed the Oldham boy's father to travel to Manchester and then Paris, where police saw him pay cash in a public street.
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The chief of the French chef's association has barricaded herself into her office in an attempt to stop union members from giving her the sack.
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The French railway operator, SNCF, has mistakenly put a dramatic statement on its website saying more than 100 people had died in a train explosion.
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Spain's prime minister has blamed the killing of a French policeman shot dead near Paris on the Basque separatist group Eta.
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A French TV documentary features people in a spoof game show administering what they are told are near lethal electric shocks to rival contestants.
March 17, 2010
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La Poste fears it could have to pick up a €115m (£103.5m) tab for le pressing after a Toulouse court ruled it should pay for 12 postal workers to keep their uniforms spotless.
March 16, 2010
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The musician died in hospital in Aubenas in the south of France, where he had been admitted a few days earlier
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British and Australian governments are to announce the first results of a project aimed at pairing bones with DNA samples given by soldiers’ living descendants.
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A 38-year-old French mother went on trial Monday for killing her six newborn babies and hiding their bodies in rubbish bags in her cellar.
March 15, 2010
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The election of France’s regional councils combines proportional representation with a majority, or first-past-the-post, system.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party trailed in the first round of regional elections Sunday, projections showed, and looked headed for a severe defeat in next week's run-off.
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The south of France isn't all celebs and over-priced cocktails. Ten miles from Marseille lie the hidden bays of the Calanques, accessible only by boat – or good hiking boots
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Two French hostages seized in the Central African Republic on 22 November have been freed in neighbouring Darfur
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David Cameron has angered the French government by apparently mocking the diminutive height of Nicolas Sarkozy.
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After delays caused by bad weather and technical problems, French investigators are spending $14m (£9.2m) on the search for the wreckage of Air France flight 447
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More than 13,000 full-time students from France — enough to fill an entire university — have enrolled on British courses.
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Sarkozy braced for poll defeat as angry French voters look to the left | World news | guardian.co.ukSocialists and Greens expect significant gains in regional elections as ruling party blamed for poor economic situation
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