French authorities have handed preliminary terrorism charges to a fugitive extremist suspected of helping organise the deadly 2015 attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

A violent storm has left some 200,000 households without power across France, including 30,000 in the Paris region, the national electricity provider said.

As French authorities question airport staff who had access to EgyptAir Flight 804, cleaning crews are among those drawing attention.

An eight-year-old boy from the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros has been in a transit zone at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for 10 days after trying to enter France illegally.

French unions and president Nicolas Sarkozy go head to head again today in the continuing row over his plans to raise the retirement age.

Japan issued a travel alert for Europe today, joining Britain and the US in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in their stride.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is returning to rehab.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been reportedly been accused of making a racial slur when he was banned from boarding a plane.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers was reportedly banned from boarding a plane because he was too drunk.

CityJet and Air France are to start twice-daily flights from Shannon to Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on February 4.

Tony Blair will travel on Concorde to Washington next week on the first day the supersonic jet flies passengers from Britain since last year's air disaster.

An Air France Concorde has flown from Paris to New York for the first time since last year's Paris crash.

Lawyers for Air France and other companies connected to last year's Concorde crash say they hope to have reached a final out-of-court settlement with families of the victims.