A 67-year-old driver tried to ram through a gate of the French presidential palace yesterday, officials said. He was arrested and treated for light injuries.

A 67-year-old driver tried to ram through a gate of the French presidential palace today.

Police were hunting a lone gunman on the loose in Paris yesterday after he opened fire with a shotgun at the offices of a left-wing newspaper and a major bank before hijacking a car to take him to the Champs-Elysees avenue.

Troops from 13 African countries that took part in the French-led war against al Qaida-linked extremists in Mali marched with the French military during the Bastille Day parade in Paris to honour their role in the conflict.

Masked and armed thieves used the New Year’s Eve celebrations to rob the flagship Apple store in Paris.

The man arrested in connection with today's fatal shootings in a Colorado cinema has been named by police as local man James Holmes.

Perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain has been convicted by a French court of of making racist insults on national television and fined him €6,000.

FRENCH investigators have found jewels valued at €18 million hidden in a Paris rain sewer — part of the spectacular 2008 heist from luxury jeweller Harry Winston’s Paris boutique.

French investigators have found jewels valued at €18m hidden in a Paris rain sewer – part of the spectacular 2008 heist from luxury jeweller Harry Winston’s Paris boutique.

French farmers angry over financial woes today blocked the famed Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris and set hay on fire.

A judicial official says a French far-right activist has been released from prison seven years after attempting to assassinate then-President Jacques Chirac in a Bastille Day attack.

A reward of up to $1m (€770,000) was offered for information leading to the recovery of diamond rings, necklaces and watches stolen in an €8m robbery in Paris.

A towering 71-storey skyscraper to rival the Eiffel Tower is to be built on the edge of Paris.

Around 3,000 French police on motorcycles, in jogging gear and on skates will protect the Olympic torch relay today as it departs from the Eiffel Tower and criss-crosses Paris amid threats of pro-Tibet protests.

Youths set schools ablaze and torched cars before dawn today as pockets of violence persisted across France.

Prosecutors asked a court today to sentence a man accused of trying to shoot President Jacques Chirac in 2002 to six to eight years in prison as jurors began deliberating on a verdict.

The bells of Notre Dame rang out today on the 60th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle’s emotional march from the Arc de Triomphe to the cathedral in the city’s heart, closing a week of ceremonies to mark Paris’s liberation from the Nazis.