The Latest Breaking News from France

France 6-40 England: The World Cup favourites looked in frightening form in Mont-de-Marsan

England overpowered France in a 40-6 warm-up win before the Women’s Rugby World Cup, with Lark Atkin-Davies scoring twice in Mont-de-Marsan

France, Spain, Greece and Turkey are all battling wildfires as a new heatwave brings record temperatures surpassing 42 degrees Celsius.

About 1,400 firefighters have been deployed in France's southern Aude region to prevent the country's largest wildfire in decades from reigniting

Les Bleues wing is in combative mood before the pre-World Cup clash with Red Roses. ‘We’re not talking a warm-up match,’ she tells Raphaël Jucobin

Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.

Fleur Breteau tells of how case was merely a symptom of a wider problem contaminating food and water systems

French Prime Minister François Bayrou is turning to YouTube to defend deep budget cuts aimed at bringing the country’s soaring debt under control. He says France is running out of time to fix its finances and wants the public to understand what’s at stake.

Officials warn the fire could reignite amid a forecasted heatwave, with 1,000 people still unable to return home and over 1,300 homes without power.

Travellers are warned to be vigilant as temperatures exceed 30C

The largest wildfire France has seen in nearly 80 years – ripping through forests, villages and vineyards in the southern Aude department – has been contained, but officials warn it will keep burning for days. Among the hardest-hit areas is the Corbières wine region, where flames destroyed vineyards already weakened…