French police mounted a weekend raid to free a man who had been kidnapped in Paris to force his crypto-millionaire son to pay a ransom, prosecutors said, adding four people were arrested.

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From a week of potentially disruptive French rail strikes to the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe and Emmanuel ...

Actually nothing to do with food, this is an expression that you might hear flung about during political debates.

Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including ...

Être en PLS or je suis en PLS - roughly pronounced zhe swee en pay el ess - literally means 'I am in the PLS (Position Latérale de Sécurité)', which is the medical position you put an unconscious ...

From France's May Day protests to the 'bread famine', via doctor strikes and whether Azealia Banks may have a point about ...

A French man accused of stabbing a 22-year-old Malian to death in a mosque appears to have acted alone on an obsessive "urge ...

It's the call that no-one wants to get from the garage - telling you that your car is only good for scrap. But how do you ...

France's justice minister has ordered a probe into why investigators did not follow up two rape cases despite finding links to Dominique Pelicot, convicted in December for organising the rape of his ...

France comes alive in every summer, with events and festivals great and small taking place the length and breadth of the country – here’s our pick of ones to visit in summer 2025.

After calling the ground 'Swiss cheese', the mayor of a town in central France is commissioning a special mapping exercise to ...