Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Légion d'honneur, an award officially handed to those who have provided "eminent" services to France, as a result of his conviction ...

Marthe Cohn, who became fluent in German through her upbringing in north-east France, and was famed for her heroic actions during the Second World War as a spy for France's Resistance movement, when ...

A small group of Tesla clients in France are suing the brand for termination of their leasing contracts, claiming that the political behaviour of the carmaker's CEO, Elon Musk, has turned their ...

The wreck of a 16th-century merchant ship carrying Italian plates and jugs, cauldrons and defensive canons, has been found intact in the Mediterranean Sea off south-east France and lying 2, 567 ...

Four adults were killed and more than 20 others were injured, several seriously, after a coach carrying Ukrainian teenagers home after an exchange trip crashed on a motorway in north-west France on ...

Mediapart is publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians. Nour ...

The number of suicides among prisoners in France is steadily increasing, while overcrowding of prisons is soaring. Often, the ...

A 31-year-old teaching assistant died on Tuesday moring after she was repeatedly stabbed by a 15-year-old boy during a ...

A Paris appeals court has released from detention in mainland France Christian Tein, a leader of the Knak independence movement on France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, along with three ...

In what is the first legal move of its kind in France, a woman has filed a formal complaint for war crimes, crimes against ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of Spain's Vox party  and ...

Georges 'Bill' Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars along with suspended sentences for selling fake 18th-Century chairs to collectors including the Palace of Versailles and a ...