Sources: BBC
Two prison guards are taken hostage at a prison in Condé-sur-Sarthe, Normandy, France. One of the hostages is injured. The hostage-taker later surrenders. 2021-10-5
Nursery and primary schools reopens in France after a three-week closure in the first step of the partial lockdown easing. 2021-04-26
French Environment Minister Barbara Pompili announces that France will ban the use of terrace heaters in restaurants and cafes by the end of this winter to cut down on carbon emissions. 2020-07-27
A fire inside Nantes Cathedral in Nantes, France, destroys the 400-year-old grand organ, which had survived two major fires in 1944 and 1972, and some stained glass windows. Police are treating the fire as arson, saying three fires appear to have been started deliberately. 2020-07-18
Bruno Le Roux resigns as France's Minister of the Interior amid a jobs scandal involving two of his daughters. Using public funds, Bruno had hired his 15 and 16-year-old daughters as parliamentary assistants while he was serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly. 2017-03-21
Millions of Guineans vote peacefully in the West African country's second free election since gaining independence from France nearly 60 years ago. Ballot counting started; the provisional outcome is not expected until the end of this week, an official said. Incumbent President Alpha Conde is expected to win reelection. 2015-10-11
A French journalist is killed, along with eight others, by a mortar in the Syrian city of Homs. 2012-01-11
French and Ugandan scientists discover a 20-million-year-old skull of a tree-climbing ape in the Karamoja region of Uganda. 2011-08-2
French riot police take over the Grandpuits Total S.A. oil refinery which had been blockaded by strikers for more than ten days. 2010-10-22
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is cleared of charges of complicity to false denunciation in the "Clearstream" affair. 2010-01-28