The Latest Breaking News from France

Students’ union calls for sanctions over posts on social network that have also contained homophobic abuse

Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon veers from battlefield to boudoir, portraying Bonaparte as a caricature of masculine excess.

A former France basketball player serving as an ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympics has been forced to quit her role because of a controversy linked to a social media post related to the situation in Gaza

Emerging civil defence groups in Taiwan have vowed to make the island's population better prepared for a potential attack by Chinese troops. Two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted an unprecedented grassroots mobilisation in favour of civil resilience, a large number of Taiwanese are still afraid that the…

Yamaha has just announced the renaming of its MBK Industrie facility in France to Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Europe (YMME), which will serve as the company's European production hub.

Gabriel Attal attempts to set tone as Macron government tries to counter rise of Marine Le Pen’s far-right

The latest Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu quit the government in a shock move on Monday, leaving the country facing political chaos

Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet’s courtroom thriller about a writer accused of murdering her husband at their isolated mountain chalet, has won Golden Globes for best non-English language film and best screenplay. It is a triumph for French arthouse drama, which has been in decline in recent years.

Olympic Basketball 2009 meadlist, Emilie Gomis, has resigned as ambassador of the Paris Olympics Games after the organising committee held a meeting on Wednesday to address a controversy linked to a social media post about the Gaza war made by the former sports star.