Sarkozy joins Healy-Rae and Trump on grasp of climate change‘Sahara became a desert, not because of industry’, says French presidential candidateThu Sept 15 2016 - 16:29
Schiaparelli’s Mars landing will be a giant leap for EuropeEuropean Space Agency’s ExoMars programme to determine if there’s life on MarsThu Sept 15 2016 - 01:00
Assuring France that Muslims feel responsible but not guiltyA voice for the silent majority of French Muslims calls for an Islamic reformationWed Sept 14 2016 - 01:00
François Hollande vows to defend democracy as popularity tanksFrench president slams terrorists, the right and City of London in combative speechThu Sept 08 2016 - 17:52
Memorial unveiled in Paris to designer Eileen GrayPioneering talent remembered in magical moment almost 40 years after her deathWed Sept 07 2016 - 18:11
Migrant crisis: Paris mayor unveils refugee camp planMayor Anne Hidalgo says Paris refugee camp is the first in a dense urban zone in EuropeWed Sept 07 2016 - 01:00
Manuel Valls rejects New York Times account of anti-Muslim ‘apartheid’French prime minister lashes out at “intolerable” New York Times articleTue Sept 06 2016 - 21:19
Migrant crisis: Calais marches to demand closure of JungleUp to 10,000 now living on wasteland site in tents and without adequate water or toiletsTue Sept 06 2016 - 08:26
Nicolas Sarkozy may be tried for illegal campaign financingProsecutor believes former French president knew of €18m in bogus bills sent to UMPMon Sept 05 2016 - 19:21
Apple tax ruling: EC ‘certain’ decision to charge €13bn is validPierre Moscovici: Apple ‘a company which didn’t pay as much tax as it should have’Sat Sept 03 2016 - 01:00
French will convict Ian Bailey of murder, says lawyerJournalist could receive 30-year prison sentence in absentia for voluntary homicideFri Sept 02 2016 - 01:00
Marc Riboud wandered world capturing life on cameraLegendary photographer’s image helped change US public opinion on Vietnam WarThu Sept 01 2016 - 14:58
France’s Emmanuel Macron quits, paving way for presidential bidOutgoing minister delivers resignation speech laced with criticism of Francois HollandeTue Aug 30 2016 - 22:06
François Hollande issues unilateral French deadline for BrexitIn foreign policy address, French president also seeks to impose deadline for BrexitTue Aug 30 2016 - 18:16
French presidential polls to be battle of unpopularityWhile Francois Hollande has yet to declare, there is little doubt he will seek re-electionTue Aug 30 2016 - 01:00
The world catches up with Stefan Zweig’s visionThe Austrian writer of the 1930s, a friend of James Joyce and inspiration for Wes Anderson, is back in vogue as his view of a world changing for the worse captures the zeitgeistWed Aug 24 2016 - 06:00
Terror attacks: France’s war on jihadism marked by turmoilFrustration and confusion often permeates the state’s reaction to suspected IslamistsWed Aug 10 2016 - 01:00
French PM vows plan to tackle jihadist-related prison crisisSharp increase in prisoner numbers fuels overcrowding and appalling conditionsTue Aug 09 2016 - 01:00
Burkini pool day sparks controversy in FranceSmile 13’s plans to rent out a water park near Marseille is described as ‘hardcore sectarianism’Fri Aug 05 2016 - 18:33
Failure to tackle terror in France points to sociological solutionGiven the war with Isis could take years, French society must look beyond securityThu Aug 04 2016 - 23:39
Versailles shows the enduring power of the French stateTourists still flock in their droves to gawk at Louis XIV’s red and gold brocade bedThu Aug 04 2016 - 01:00
Slain priest’s funeral asked: ‘Must there be further slaughter?’Fr Jacques Hamel eulogised in Rouen, but what does future hold for France’s Muslims?Tue Aug 02 2016 - 19:24
Priest’s killers were Isis apprentices who met through app19-year-old Normandy attackers knew each other only four days before they struckTue Aug 02 2016 - 01:00
French police investigate assault of Irish woman in Avignon25-year-old was attacked by three men with a motorcycle chain lockMon Aug 01 2016 - 15:30
UK delays €21bn deal for nuclear plant at Hinkley PointFrench firm EDF left in lurch as move seen as crucial to its future is postponedFri Jul 29 2016 - 21:35
Little hard evidence about effect of media coverage on aspiring jihadistsRecent attacks have sparked media debate in France on the ethics of coverageThu Jul 28 2016 - 19:48
France church attack: tensions mount in town after priest killingMurder of Fr Jacques has destroyed fragile ethnic balance in Saint-Étienne-du-RouvrayWed Jul 27 2016 - 17:56
Normandy attack: France aims to prevent ‘war of religions’François Hollande to meet faith leaders after murder of priest by Islamic State supportersWed Jul 27 2016 - 08:33
‘Unnameable’ Islamic State atrocity stirs fears of escalationRight-wing figures pounce after priest’s throat is slashed in Normandy townWed Jul 27 2016 - 01:00
Attacker who killed priest in Normandy was wearing tagOne of ‘soldiers of Islamic State’ who forced cleric to kneel before murder identifiedTue Jul 26 2016 - 22:19
French minister rejects allegations of Nice cover-upPolicewoman claims she was told to alter report about police presence on July 14thTue Jul 26 2016 - 01:00
Christine Lagarde to stand trial over arbitration award of €405mSarkozy alleged to have put pressure on Lagarde to approve award for Bernard TapieSat Jul 23 2016 - 01:00
May plays for time as Hollande tells Britain to get on with itBrexiteers’ possible strategy: play France and Germany off each otherThu Jul 21 2016 - 21:44
Nice killer had accomplices and planned for year, says prosecutorFive to be arraigned in connection with complicity in a terrorist undertakingThu Jul 21 2016 - 19:01
Hollande to meet Kenny, Higgins in Dublin for security talksBrexit, the Easter Rising and Irish in France during first World War also on agendaThu Jul 21 2016 - 01:00
Poet plays peacemaker as Montague’s adopted Nice is torn apartJohn Montague and Elizabeth Wassell are heartbroken over the attack in NiceWed Jul 20 2016 - 01:00
France remains on edge after latest security scaresCountry to vote on extending state of emergency after man stabs mother and daughtersTue Jul 19 2016 - 19:34
Truck driver planned and rehearsed Nice attackInquiry advances as prosecutor says Laouaiej-Bouhlel not a practising MuslimTue Jul 19 2016 - 01:00
Nice massacre: Angry crowd boos French prime minister at ceremony‘The terrorists want to divide us, and the politicians are doing it for them’Mon Jul 18 2016 - 15:40
Nice attack: Police focus inquiry on killer’s associatesSix people have been placed in custody in connection with Bastille Day massacreMon Jul 18 2016 - 11:59
Nice terror attack: ‘I knew my son was gone’Families remember those killed in the Bastille Day truck assault in the French cityMon Jul 18 2016 - 01:00
Nice’s florists unable to cope with city’s need to express grief‘Incomprehension, stupefaction, silence and fear’ tempered with ‘a sense of togetherness’Mon Jul 18 2016 - 01:00
Nice attack: Who was the killer and what motivated him?Islamic State claimed Mohamed Laouaiej-Bouhlel as one of its ‘soldiers’Sun Jul 17 2016 - 12:08
France is left reeling as terror threat takes a new formNice survivors struggle to adjust to reality in the aftermath of the Bastille Day attackSat Jul 16 2016 - 01:00
Incredulity at Nice attack gives air to right-wing proposalsHollande caught between allegations of too much and too little actionSat Jul 16 2016 - 01:00
Nice attack: France in mourning after 84 killedIrish man among 200 injured, 50 of whom are critical, after lorry ran into crowdFri Jul 15 2016 - 20:36
‘I saw the bodies...I saw a man get hit,’ says Irishman in Nice'It shouldn’t have happened. On the best of days, you wouldn’t be able to drive anything that size down the promenade'Fri Jul 15 2016 - 12:51
Bastille Day Attack: 80 people dead after truck drives through crowd in NiceDriver shot dead as France opens terrorism inquiry into attack that left at least 50 others injuredFri Jul 15 2016 - 09:01
Refusing to look away – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Brian Maguire’s paintings on the migrant crisisMon Jul 11 2016 - 01:01
Stunning French intelligence failures in Paris attacksParliamentary inquiry finds security agencies need a radical overhaul to fight jihadismSat Jul 09 2016 - 01:00
