France's anti-terrorism prosecutor has taken picture magazine Paris Match to court in an urgent effort to stop sales of its latest edition showing gruesome photos of the terror attack in Nice.

French President François Hollande’s ex-girlfriend writes in a tell-all book to be published today that months after their public breakup he was trying to win her back with flowers, dinner invitations, and barrages of text messages.

A journalist with French weekly Paris Match, who was arrested in Afghanistan after secretly entering the country disguised as a woman, was today paraded through streets as townspeople hurled stones at him.