Sources: Reuters
French journalist Antoni Lallican is killed and photographer Hryhoriy Ivanchenko is injured by a Russian drone strike in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 2025-10-3
Spanish Civil Guard police arrest five French tourists and one Swiss tourist for allegedly raping an 18-year-old British woman on the island of Mallorca. 2023-08-16
Benoît Maria, a French human rights activist who helped indigenous people in Guatemala, is shot dead while driving near San Antonio Ilotenango in Quiché. 2020-08-11
French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses the English Channel on the jet-powered Flyboard Air. The 22-mile (35.4-km) journey took 22 minutes with one refueling stop about halfway to Dover, England. 2019-08-4
French artist Laure Prouvost wins the 2013 Turner Prize for a video installation set in a mock tea party. 2013-12-2
Four French hostages held in Niger by an Al-Qaeda offshoot since 2010 are released. 2013-10-29
The New York Police Department orders an investigation into the death of French academic Richard Descoings who was found nude in his hotel room. 2012-04-3
Two Western journalists are killed in the Syrian city of Homs, American Marie Colvin working for the "Sunday Times" and French photographer Remi Ochlik. 2012-02-22
Two freed French journalists, Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, return to France after being held captive in Afghanistan by the Taliban for 18 months. 2011-06-30
Three French foreign aid workers disappear in Yemen's Hadramout province. 2011-05-29