During a debate in the European parliament, MEPs expressed grave concerns over Mr Sarkozy’s policy or returning the Roma from illegal camps to Eastern Europe. Social Democrat, Labour and Liberal MEPs will vote on Thursday a European Parliament...

An 80-year-old Frenchman was recovering in a state of shock in hospital on Saturday after being freed from a year locked in a laundry room by a wife half his age and her alleged lover. French paramilitary police rescued the unnamed man from his home in...

A female lawyer allegedly ripped another woman’s burka off in a clothes shop - and told her to ‘clear off to your own country’. The 26-year-old Muslim convert said the 60-year-old lawyer made ’snide remarks’ about her...

Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught on film telling off a young man who wiped his hand on a friend’s sweater after shaking the French president’s hand.

Disneyland Paris is investigating after two chefs employed at the park committed suicide within six weeks of one another. A Eurodisney chef hanged himself at his home near Paris last Friday, on the same day he was due to return to work after a period...

The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country’s National Institute...

The 23-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he is withdrawing from a bid to run the country’s top business district. The bid by Jean Sarkozy, who is yet to complete his undergraduate law studies, had triggered accusations of...

The heavily taxed French like to grouse about all the levies they pay, but there’s a new tax that’s turned that constant grumble into a roar. Called la taxe carbone, or the carbon tax, the new levy would charge businesses and individuals...

A number of iPhones that reportedly “exploded” in France were not due to the battery overheating as had been suggested, Apple has said. The firm said that all of the handsets they had seen with broken screens were caused by an...