The French cabinet has given the go-ahead for the president to force through highly controversial labour reforms, circumventing parliament.

A human-like robot scuba dives and discovers archaeological treasure in a ship that sank off the coast of Toulon, France in 1664, reports Business Insider.

A Dutchman dubbed the "dentist of horror" is sentenced to eight years in France for mutilating the mouths of some 120 patients.

The Embassy of France and the European Union Ambassador to Bangladesh strongly condemns the gruesome murder of AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, a professor at of Rajshahi University.

Hollywood stars turned directors Jodie Foster and Sean Penn will show their latest films at the Cannes festival next month, organisers say.

The suspected surviving bomber in the Brussels attacks has told interrogators the group initially planned a new attack on France, Belgian prosecutors say.

The first soldiers to face justice in a huge sex abuse scandal that has rocked the UN and France went on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has changed his mind and will not fight extradition from Belgium to France, his lawyer says.

France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.

Facebook gives three months to stop tracking non-members of its social network without their consent in France.

French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira steps down from her job, shortly before MPs are due to debate plans to strip people convicted of terrorism of their citizenship.

France will seek to keep its state of emergency until a "total and global war" against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over, Prime Minister Manuel Valls tells the BBC.

France returns the head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century more than 130 years after it was taken away in the name of research.

Belgian prosecutors believe to have found a Brussels apartment where one of the Paris jihadists have been hiding after the 13 November attacks.

A man is shot dead by police as he tries to attack a police station on the first anniversary of the jihadist assault on Charlie Hebdo had a knife and what appeared to be an explosives vest, the government says.

French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez passes away at the age of 90.

Zinedine Zidane replaces Rafael Benitez as Real Madrid coach.

French police have foiled a terror attack on police and army personnel in the region of Orleans, the interior minister has said.

An emergency landing of an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris in Kenya was caused by a false bomb alert, the airline's chief says.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is to stand trial in France for alleged negligence over a €400m (£291m; $434m) payment to a businessman in 2008, local media say.