Polanski’s victim tells her side of storySamantha Geimer’s autobiography to be published in SeptemberSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:03
Mali heads into crucial presidential electionLegitimate poll would free up €3.25bn in aid promised at donor conferenceFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:23
UMP members walk out of fraud Cahuzac inquiryParliamentary commission in crisis after walk-outFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
Paris train crash investigation under scrutiny in wake of Santiago derailmentIncident a fortnight ago killed two passengers and four people on platformFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
French deputy condemned for for saying ‘Hitler didn’t kill enough’ TravellersMayor faces expulsion from centre-right UDI partyWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Cahuzac’s memory fails him at tax fraud inquiryCommission investigates Hollande administration’s handling of former budget minister’s tax evasionWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Streamlining the system? If only it were that simpleParis letter: to an observer who long felt she was watching bureaucracy sap the lifeblood of France, the ‘choc de simplification’ looks like the best thing goingMon Jul 22 2013 - 01:00
Francophile Bono receives honour from a grateful nationU2 singer made commandeur de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in ParisWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
James Joyce’s historic sojourn in Nice recalledBono and Guggi among guests at unveiling of plaqueTue Jul 16 2013 - 01:00
Bastille Day festivities fall flat as Hollande itemises work donePresident promises to fight French pessimismMon Jul 15 2013 - 00:00
French nobles give Bastille Day right royal ‘non’France’s 6,000 aristocrats struggle to slow the erosion of their traditionsSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Yasmina Reza: Drama queenShe is the most successful French playwright of her generation and her work is performed around the world. Lara Marlowe talks to Yasmina Reza, author of ‘Art’ and ‘Carnage’, about writing, working with James Gandolfini, and a rumoured liaison with disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-KahnSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
At least six dead and 22 injured after train derails near ParisRailway cars fell on their sides, crushing waiting passengers on the platformSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
There’s nothing very convincing about Sarkozy’s retirementFormer French president says again he might have to come back, ‘if I am needed, out of duty’Fri Jul 12 2013 - 06:00
French judges order seizure of substantial Tapie assetsLagarde's status may change from ‘assisted witness’ to being placed under investigationThu Jul 11 2013 - 02:00
Fire causes ‘irreversible’ damage to historic Parisian mansionBlaze destroyed the 17th century Hotel Lambert on the Île Saint-Louis, half a kilometre from Notre Dame cathedralThu Jul 11 2013 - 01:00
Rogue trader Kerviel fails in bid for SocGen sacking inquiryJérôme Kerviel is free pending a second appeal against his 2010 convictionFri Jul 05 2013 - 01:01
Marine Le Pen loses immunity over Muslim ‘occupation’ commentsNational Front leader can now be prosecuted in France for inciting hatredWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
French ex-con still ‘coming up from ashes’ at 70Paris letter: Businessman Bernard Tapie says the system is out to humiliate himWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
France struggles to take hordes of jobless youth under bloated administrative wing of the stateSchemes to target socially challenged areas with jobs seem to be having limited successMon Jul 01 2013 - 00:00
Disgraced former French minister protects socialist government in hearingJérôme Cahuzac faces commission of inquiry over tax fraud chargesThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Row between Barroso and Paris deterioratesFrance will not take orders from Brussels, says French prime minister Jean-Marc AyraultTue Jun 25 2013 - 22:27
French confirm to Creighton support for EU retroactive recapitalisation of banks‘It is important that agreement to break link between sovereign and bank debt be implemented,’ says minister of stateTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:01
Creighton says she would be “very disappointed” if Fine Gael moves against those not supporting abortion billMinister of State says she still has deep reservations about suicide clauseTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:00
Meeting of two mistressesManet’s Olympia and Titian’s Venus of Urbino, two paintings depicting courtesans believed to have had affairs with the artists, are finally hanging side by sideSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Depardieu fined €4,000 and banned from driving for six months for drink drivingFrench actor found to be three times over legal limit when he fell off scooter last NovemberSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Hollande’s promise on parliamentary privilege proves short-livedLaw debated this week says constituents will be able to look at deputy or senator’s wealth declaration, but publishing information will be an offenceFri Jun 21 2013 - 01:00
Hollande faces wrath of unions at social conferenceMeeting of ministers, business and trade unions will confront thorny issues of pensions, unemployment and the status of France’s civil serviceThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Algeria urged to reveal truth of decapitated monks’ deathsFamilies want François Hollande to push Algiers to co-operate over 1996 killingsThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Trial of Ribéry and Benzema for sex with underage prostitute postponedJudge refers case to the court of cassation, which will take it up in January 2014Wed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
French officials face investigation into €403m Tapie paymentMagistrates say settlment the result of a ‘sham arbitration’Tue Jun 18 2013 - 06:00
Hollade and Barroso clash over trade dealRow between French PM and Commission President as G8 summit beginsTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:00
Research clinician prized for his efforts in scientific discoveryAn Irish medic has helped revolutionise how we treat heart attacks with his research on aspirinTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:00
Otherworldly hush descends for Seamus Heaney’s readings in ParisIrish poet’s 90-minute performance the highlight of month-long Marché de la Poésie festivalFri Jun 14 2013 - 01:00
France eager to have corporation tax discussed at Lough Erne summitHollande will use summit to press for new peace talks on SyriaThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:00
Samantha Power’s remarks on Israel may complicate confirmation as UN envoyIreland has secured another friend in the high echelons of the US administrationFri Jun 07 2013 - 01:00
The calculated rise of madame mayorThe next mayor of Paris will be a woman and the ‘bling-bling, divisive’ Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is in pole positionFri Jun 07 2013 - 01:00
Hollande oscillates between structural reform and the rhetoric of the French social modelThe debate over whether France’s president and his socialist party are social democrats exemplifies the confusion surrounding his government’s policySat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Hollande and Merkel agree to mobilise €6bn to spend on unemployed youthLeaders call for solidarity and competitiveness across EuropeFri May 31 2013 - 01:00
Golden era of French popular song closes with death of singer Georges MoustakiTroubadour of love, tenderness and anti-racism gave France some of its best-loved musicSat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Hollande and Cameron alter position on Syria solutionLeaders step back from previous commitment to arm Syrian rebelsThu May 23 2013 - 01:00
Vigilante’ editor seeks out corruption and abuse in French political and financial lifeMon May 20 2013 - 13:00
Hollande vows to launch European initiativePlan would set up an economic government for euro zone, says French presidentFri May 17 2013 - 01:00
Hollande in Brussels for first meeting with European CommissionVisit the first by a French president with commission since 1997Wed May 15 2013 - 01:00
Hollande rejects demand for slavery reparationsRepresentative Council of Black Associations to file lawsuit against French state-owned bankSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
France’s Europe Day blues replace decades of red-blooded celebrationsSince 2004, the number of French people who say they lack confidence in the EU has risen from 40 to 56 per centFri May 10 2013 - 01:00
Are the French lazy? Perhaps not, but they exhibit a definite preference for leisureIMF charge of ‘preference for leisure’ rings trueWed May 08 2013 - 06:00
French president François Hollande marks first year in office with government seminar“What we have done in one year is substantial, and what remains to be done is considerable.”Tue May 07 2013 - 06:00
Self-styled heir to Robespierre hopes to mobilise 100,000 to retake BastilleJean-Luc Mélenchon says demonstration will be a ‘show of strength’ against President François HollandeSat May 04 2013 - 06:00
