Chef with 10 Michelin stars has designed meals for Sophie Adenot’s trip to International Space Station next year When the French astronaut Sophie Adenot travels to the International Space Station (ISS) next year, she will be heading for...
Damning report by MPs comes after inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at Notre-Dame de Bétharram school The French prime minister, François Bayrou , failed to act to prevent physical and sexual...
Detention of 18-year-old man part of anti-terror police force’s first case linked to involuntary celibate movement An 18-year-old French man suspected of planning attacks on women has been charged in the country’s first case of a terror...
This blog has now closed, you can read more on this story here In other high stake talks, EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič will be in Washington today in another attempt to strike a tariff deal with the US before the 9 July deadline next...
Former staff likened offices of video game company in Paris to a ‘boys’ club above the law’ Three former executives at the video game company Ubisoft have been given suspended prison sentences for enabling a culture of sexual and...
Call between French and Russian presidents comes as Tehran says it is ending cooperation with UN nuclear inspectors The French president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the first time in three...
Proposal faces the surprising opposition of France – despite most Europeans being firmly in favour of climate measures Europe live – latest updates For most of the past 30 years, the EU has led the world on climate action. The bloc had...
French far-right leader’s ‘grand plan’ to expand AC comes under attack, while Germany braces for possible record heat The European heatwave has moved east, threatening record temperatures in Germany, as a political row broke out in...
With net zero targets under attack from the populist right, dangerously high temperatures should refocus minds At times like now, with dangerously high temperatures in several European countries, the urgent need for adaptation to an...
Portugal and Spain suffer historic temperature highs for June, as French schools close because of heat Outdoor working has been banned during the hottest parts of the day in more than half of Italy’s regions as an extreme heatwave that...
Public health warnings as heatwave raises concerns about impact of climate change What you need to know about heatwaves The French prime minister François Bayrou , who attended a government crisis meeting over the heatwave, was asked...
NGO says rise in interventions has only increased danger as new data shows at least 15 children died in transit last year Children and babies coming to the UK on small boats from northern France have been teargassed and subjected to...
A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivals France’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most...
Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004 When 14-year-old Pascal Gélie saw a brochure for an elite French Catholic boarding school boasting swimming in summer and...
Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas iceberg One quiet Saturday night, Sandra Wiedemann was...
Phoebe Weston heads to Alsace, eastern France, to hear about a ban on drinking water caused by dangerously high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ Sandra Wiedemann was watching TV on a Saturday night when she first saw the news that the water...
Second day of blazes in Izmir with strong winds fanning the flames and some areas evacuated How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe? in Berlin Germany is bracing for its own heatwave this week, with temperatures...
Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings A vicious heatwave has engulfed southern Europe, with punishing temperatures that have reached highs of 46C (114.8F) in Spain and...
A careworn husband is accused of murdering his wife in a story inspired by a real life case that dispenses with the genre’s familiar brutality Here is a fictionalised true crime drama, but one that is more stately and sedate than the...
Under new rules anyone who lights up on a beach or in a public park from Sunday will be breaking the law Anyone who lights up on a beach or in a public park in France will be breaking the law from Sunday under new rules aimed at...