France will ban smoking on beaches and in parks, public gardens and bus shelters from Sunday, the government said.

Four French policemen will stand trial for beating a black musician and producer five years ago -- an attack condemned by ...

A French senator accused of having drugged a parliamentary deputy with the intention of sexually assaulting her has been sent ...

Huppé - pronounced oo-pay - can refer to a bird that has a huppe (puff of feathers) on its head, but its more widely-used ...

As part of its ongoing plan to tackle healthcare shortages, the French government has unveiled a list of 'priority' areas to ...

Days after deadly storms broke France’s first heatwave of the summer - and the 50th since 1947 - forecasters are predicting ...

The French prime minister has hailed small steps of progress at his pensions 'conclave' - including one change which has ...

A two-year-old boy has died after being left in a car in southern France, which is currently in the grip of a heatwave.

Tout ça pour ça - roughly pronounced as too-sah-por-sah - literally translates as 'all that for this'. It's used when the ...

A top European court has condemned France for failing to protect the rights of a Frenchman who had accused his country’s ...

From the toxic green algae swamping France's northern coast to the dark side of Champagne, via swimming in the Seine and how ...

French wine is pretty famous, so if you're spending time in the country's it's far from unlikely that you’ll want to visit a ...