Protesters have clashed with police in Paris during a demonstration against both candidates in the upcoming presidential elections.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has upstaged opponent Emmanuel Macron by making a surprise campaign stop to a home appliance factory.

A police operation is under way in a Paris migrant camp that has resurged in recent weeks in a new challenge to French government efforts to tackle the migrant crisis.

A 76-year-old businesswoman has been freed two days after she was kidnapped in the southern French city of Nice.

A court in France will decide today whether to overturn the ban on women wearing a burkini.

France’s highest administrative authority is studying whether local bans on full-body burkini swimsuits are legal, amid growing concerns in the country and abroad about police forcing Muslim women to disrobe.

One of the terrorists involved in slitting the throat of a priest in Normandy was wearing an electronic surveillance tag at the time of the attack.

A nun who escaped said she saw the attackers video themselves.

Thousands of dock workers poured into a public square in the French port city of Le Havre, setting off smoke bombs as part of escalating nationwide protests against a labour bill that undermines worker protection.

A second attacker is suspected of taking part in the bombing this week of a Brussels subway train and may be at large, according to Belgian and French media reports, amid signs that the same Islamic State (IS) network was behind the attacks in Brussels and bloodshed in Paris last year.

After a four-month manhunt, police have captured the top fugitive in last year’s deadly Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighbourhood where he grew up.

The head of France’s far-right National Front made a final push for votes, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial elections, promising pragmatism over ideology in any regions won by her anti-immigration party.

Flash flooding around the French Riviera has killed at least 16 people, including some trapped in cars, a campsite and a retirement home.

No terrorist link to vehicle that crashed through Paris barricades

A group of gunmen broke into a discount clothing store near Paris yesterday, trapping 18 people inside for hours, before fleeing and prompting a manhunt throughout the area, police said.

Families of the hostages of a radical gunman who killed four in a kosher supermarket are suing a French broadcaster over its live coverage of the attack, saying it endangered the hostages’ lives.

French security forces will get better weapons and protection to fight terror and the country will hire 2,600 new counter-terrorism officers, the prime minister has announced.

Up to 10,000 troops are to be deployed to protect sensitive sites.

France has ordered 10,000 troops on to the streets to protect sensitive sites - half of them to guard Jewish schools – as it hunts for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorised the nation.

Nearly 5,000 police officers have been deployed to protect Jewish schools across France as the country remains on the highest state of alert after last week's terror attacks.

The common-law wife of one of the perpetrators of last week’s terrorist rampage in France crossed into Syria from Turkey on January 8, Turkey’s foreign minister said today.

Security forces dramatically ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical magazine, and an associate who seized a kosher supermarket to try to help them escape.

A French doctor was acquitted of poisoning charges after giving lethal injections to seven terminally ill patients, and Britain’s Supreme Court said an assisted-suicide ban is incompatible with human rights, fuelling the arguments of those who say the duty of doctors is to end the suffering of those beyond treatment.

Senior diplomats from the major players trying to find an end to the crisis in Ukraine are gathering in Paris.

French police have identified the man arrested for shooting a newspaper assistant photographer and carrying out three other attacks.

France is ready to prevent new terror attacks after its military operation to push back al-Qaida-linked insurgents grabbing territory in Mali, the country’s top security official said today.

The French government will shelve €1 billion of planned spending this year, on top of a three-year spending freeze that kicks in in 2013, said Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac.

A lawyer said she has evidence the young man accused of killing seven people in attacks on French soldiers and a Jewish school claimed his innocence to police.

Arabic news network Al-Jazeera has been given footage of the deadly attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school in France, but said it will not air the tapes.

Surveillance videos aired publicly for the first time show former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leisurely checking out of a New York hotel where he was accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid, and his accuser appearing to act out the alleged attack.

The offices of a French satirical magazine have been firebombed after it named Muhammad as a guest editor.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled off a plane in New York moments before it was to depart for Paris and arrested over sex attack allegations involving a hotel maid.

The area under Paris' Eiffel Tower has been opened up to tourists again after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat and police combed through the famous monument looking for suspicious objects.

Cooley Distillery have appointed Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium as the exclusive distributors of Cooley Premium Irish Whiskeys.

Cooley Distillery has appointed Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium (BRM) as the exclusive distributors of its premium Irish Whiskeys range.

EUROPEAN Central Bank council member Christian Noyer said excessive currency fluctuations may hurt global economic growth.