The Latest Breaking News from France

France encountered severe turbulence over the past 12 months, roiled by a long and bitter battle over pension reform as well as crippling droughts, sizzling heatwaves and nationwide rioting. FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of the top stories from a year of turmoil.

Sonia and Olivier, both 61, fell in love in the spring of last year after meeting at his restaurant. They live together in France

Cheaper than Champagne but no less celebratory, why not add Crémant to your basket?

Twenty-five of the mostly Indian passengers, bound for Nicaragua, have now claimed asylum in France

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

A makeshift courtroom was set up in a French airport to investigate human trafficking concerns.

A charter plane that was grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation arrived in India with 276 Indians aboard Tuesday, authorities said. The passengers had been heading to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside a rural French airport for four days in an exceptional holiday ordeal.

Fifty figures from the French entertainment world signed an open letter published Monday defending actor Gérard Depardieu as he faces more than a dozen rape and sexual assault allegations spanning two decades. Most of the accusations have come from those he worked with, with one actress saying his reputation in…

A Marylebone office building that served as a secret Second World War training centre for spies preparing to be dropped into Nazi occupied France has been sold for around £3 million.