Clashes have broken out between protesters and riot police near France’s National Assembly building, hours after the country legalised gay marriage.

French lawmakers have legalised same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris.

Joern Utzon, the Danish architect who designed the famous Sydney Opera House, has died. He was 90.

Around 10,000 cafe owners and tobacconists marched through Paris today in protest at a smoking ban they fear will ruin their businesses.

Chad broke off diplomatic relations with neighbouring Sudan today, escalating tensions between the two African nations a day after a deadly rebel attack on the capital ended with at least 350 people dead.