France

A debate over surveillance cameras is raging in Paris, where police are in the process of establishing a widespread system of "video protection". Is it a necessary security measure or a needless infringement of civil liberties?

After years of tense negotiations between China and France, two giant pandas landed in Paris on Sunday. The bears have been loaned to Beauval zoo in the Loire region for ten years as part of China's "panda diplomacy".

DR Congo's Senate chief and former presidential candidate Leon Kengo (pictured) was attacked at a Paris train station on Saturday, allegedly by supporters of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, the Congolese government said on Sunday.

George Whitman, the founder of Paris’s most famous English-language bookstore, died Wednesday aged 98. For sixty years his shop has been a magnet for literary greats, aspiring writers and book lovers.

A controversial move by French lawmakers to prohibit prostitution by targeting those who pay for sex will put the lives of prostitutes in danger, organizations representing sex workers told FRANCE 24 this week.

A decade after abruptly pulling out of the French market, quintessentially British supermarket Marks & Spencer returned on Friday with the grand opening of a store on the Champs Elysées in Paris, attracting a queue of hundreds of people.

Protesters gathered in central Paris to mark fifty years since a deadly police crackdown on Algerian anti-war protesters, one of the darkest days in modern French history.

A man claiming to be an unemployed computer technician entered a Parisian job center Monday and took the director and deputy director of the job center hostage, according to police sources.

Paris is gearing up for a quiet revolution. All-electric Autolib' cars, based on the success of the city’s Vélib' bike-sharing scheme, will begin to appear on the streets of the capital in December.

The all-night Parisian art festival ‘Nuit Blanche’ is turning ten on Saturday, with interactive installations, music, dancing and illuminations to please the city’s sleepless residents and visitors.