France’s constitutional court has ruled that mayors cannot refuse to carry out same-sex marriages.

France says it will fine Google €300,000 for breaking rules on data privacy.

Twitter has suspended the account used by Somali militants after the insurgents used the micro-blogging site to post a hostage video and death threat.

A French court has ruled that Twitter, which has steadfastly refused calls to police its millions of users, must hand over data to help identify the authors of racist or anti-semitic tweets.

The leader of France’s main far-right party said today that she is demanding a recount after her razor-thin loss to a Socialist in northern France as part of nationwide legislative elections.

France’s main pilots’ union and unions at Air France have called for a strike.

France’s Socialists and sympathisers are choosing their nominee for next year’s presidential election – an expected showdown with embattled conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy.

HAVING quit rugby union for rugby league and then come back again, France centre Fabrice Estebanez has finally made up his mind what he wants to do: shine at the World Cup.

French star Gerard Depardieu has been accused of urinating in an airliner’s cabin ahead of takeoff.

A French court has decided to investigate new IMF chief Christine Lagarde’s role in a $400m (€280m) arbitration deal in favour of a controversial tycoon.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s allies are hoping that new doubts about the New York chambermaid who accused of him of sexual assault can help revive his French presidential bid.

IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the front runner in the latest opinion polls to win next year’s presidential election in France and replace Nicolas Sarkozy.

The cockpit voice recorder of an Air France plane which plunged into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people on board, has been found and recovered, France’s Accident Investigation Agency said.

PADDY Power has distanced itself from fresh speculation that it is in the running to acquire the Tote betting network in Britain, which the government there is looking to sell in the coming months.

France’s National Assembly approved a sweeping retirement reform plan today, including a highly contested measure to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62.

The widow of the former Rwandan president whose death sparked the country’s 1994 massacres was arrested on genocide charges in France today.

UNFAITHFUL spouses in France beware: Passionate text messages sent to mistresses and lovers can now be used as evidence against you in a divorce.

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s governing conservatives trounced France’s Socialists in voting for the European parliament, while an ecology-minded party vaulted to a surprisingly strong third place, according to early official results.

France’s Senate has given final approval to a law that would punish people who download music and films illegally by cutting off their internet connections.

IT’S no longer a theory after 103 years, scientists have proved German-born genius Albert Einstein knew exactly what relativity is.

A bike-sharing scheme launched in Paris a year ago has proved so popular that the city’s mayor wants to extend it to include electric cars.

France’s government is to speed up financial aid for fishermen – many of whom have led angry protests over high fuel prices.

France’s Socialist Party today expelled politician Georges Freche after he was criticised for saying there were too many black players on the national football team, party officials said.

France’s Constitutional Council was today expected to rule on whether to strike down the government’s new job contract for youths, which has prompted massive protests.

France’s Interior Ministry has said the “no” vote on the EU Constitution has 57.26% with nearly 83% of ballots counted.

A titanium strip that fell off a Continental Airlines jumbo jet onto a Paris runway was the main cause of the crash of a Air France Concorde four years ago, judicial experts reported today.

French staff of a US owned company, tired of struggling with company e-mails, manuals and meetings in English, took their fight to court today.

In a dramatic twist to French Polynesia’s political crisis, the ousted president declared that he and his ex-government had started a hunger strike to protest at what they called unlawful elections.

Wine flavoured with wood chips was, until recently, just the kind of thing France’s vintners were proud to have nothing to do with.

Bank of France Governor Jean-Claude Trichet went on trial today on charges that could thwart his bid to become the next president of the European Central Bank.