President Emmanuel Macron is on Sunday to set new French defence targets in the face of a menacing Russia and a potential United States disengagement from Europe, his office said.

An accord between France and New Caledonia, creating a state within a state and hailed by President Emmanuel Macron as "historic", hit immediate fierce criticism in the Pacific territory on Sunday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned US President Donald Trump's threat to impose 30-percent tariffs on the European Union, calling on the bloc to "resolutely defend European ...

A French archbishop's decision to promote a priest who was sentenced to jail for raping a teenaged boy has drawn new condemnation of the Roman Catholic Church for its record on sex abuse.

France's prison service said Saturday it had launched an investigation after a man escaped by smuggling himself into his cellmate's bag as he left jail, having served his sentence.

European countries are not all equally exposed to the US market and so will not suffer the same consequences should President Donald Trump go ahead with his threats to impose 30-percent tariffs on the ...

Gisele Pelicot, who became a feminist icon by publicly testifying over the mass rapes she endured, and rapper-turned-fashion designer Pharrell Williams were among 589 people awarded France's top civic ...

Cata - pronounced as cat-ah - is an abbreviation of catastrophe (cat-as-troff) which translates exactly as you would expect. While you can use la catastrophe in everyday conversation, la cata is a bit ...

This week’s must-reads feature France’s Fête nationale, wildfire readiness, alternatives to air conditioning, paperwork timetables, whether language exchanges are worth the expense, and why everyone ...

The summer holiday season continues with the big annual Fête Nationale events on Monday, while another anniversary is marked later in the week ...

Paris will be under tight police surveillance Sunday and Monday for a key football match for local champions PSG, and France's national holiday, with both events potentially creating public ...

The UN's cultural organisation on Saturday included the megaliths of Carnac and the banks of Morbihan, a vast area including famous alignments of menhirs in western France, on its World Heritage List.