Extreme temperatures are set to make a return to France next week. Find out where the heatwave will be worst.

LA MONGIE (VN) – Beaming like he has not for many years in the Village Depart is French legend Raymond Poulidor, nicknamed 'Pou Pou' and 'The Eternal ...

It was a day for Frenchmen on the first of the Tour de France's famous mountain climbs as Julian Alaphilippe extended his overall lead over defending champion ...

Students chip and chisel away at heavy slabs of stone in the workshops of the Hector Guimard high school, less than three miles from Paris' Notre Dame ...

A village in southern France has been named as the record holder of the country's all-time hottest temperature reached in June's heatwave.

After one of his best time trials in recent times on stage 13 in Pau, much was expected of Richie Porte as the Tour de France moved into the Pyrenees with stage ...

Jeremy Whittle witnessed Rohan Dennis's shambolic Tour de France exit and watched in horror as his own dirty laundry was aired in public.

Between 1990 and 2015, EU countries reforested an area the size of Portugal.

Tens of thousands of Algeria supporters across France celebrated the Desert Foxes' victory against Senegal in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations on Friday ...

Nairo Quintana's yellow jersey dreams faded on the slopes of the Tourmalet on Saturday. The two-time overall runner-up was dropped from the GC group well ...

A German foreign ministry spokesman said, "We urge Iran to release (this)... ship and its crew immediately.

With the annual summer dash under starter's orders, we suggest how to turn a schlep into a road trip, staying in treehouses, chateaux and cool hotels en route.

Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi has called on the team's fans to "respect the countries where we are living" after celebrations in France en route to Friday's Africa ...

A nation 'dares to dream' as Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe proudly continues his stint atop the podium as the Tour de France celebrates 100 years in yellow.

Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission, a new French plan for a space command must overcome the reluctance of its European allies to weaponize space.

France has squeaked past Italy to become the country with the biggest debt load in the euro area in absolute terms, according to quarterly data from Eurostat.

French authorities rejected a nurse's application to be naturalised, arguing that she works too much. The prefecture in Val-de-Marne, near Paris, denied her ...

Australian time trial world champion Rohan Dennis went AWOL for over an hour after abandoning the Tour de France and his Bahrain Merida team ...

ALBI, France — I was late, oh so late, and my car's GPS had expired in the midst of remote vineyards and stands of cypress and golden fields of ...

Finance minister hopes to agree global action on tech giants at G7 meeting this week.

France recently approved a 3% tax on revenues generated by large digital companies in its territory, a move that is now being investigated as a potentially unfair ...

France has rejected an immigrant nurse's application for citizenship on the grounds that she was working too many hours a week in breach of the statutory ...

Tour de France organisers are looking to launch a major women's Tour which “would be to women's cycling what the Tour de France is to men's cycling”, they ...

Watch: A mountain bike rider realized a childhood dream this week when he successfully jumped over the peloton during the Tour de France.

With a minimum of 30 days of paid leave per year, French people have the reputation of being on vacation all the time. During the summer months of July and ...

French President Emmanuel Macron paid his first official visit to Tokyo last month, reflecting his commitment to step up his country's bilateral relations with Japan ...

If you want peace and quiet on your next summer holiday in France, here are the places where most tourists don't go and reasons why you should.

Australian Richie Porte was one of those trapped behind Geraint Thomas as crosswinds caused chaos in the peloton in the climax of Monday's 10th stage.

Prominent researcher Fariba Adelkhah was arrested in June, reports say.

A time trial. A chase car. A wild ride at the Tour de France.

A look at the new custom jerseys at this year's race.

Pau, France (CT) – Four days after his debut Tour stage win, in a technical conclusion to a tricky time trial, it all went wrong for Wout van Aert. On this ...

Italy is now attracting more foreign tourists than France, according to new figures from the Italian Government Tourist Board (ENIT). But is that true?

French riot police fired teargas to disperse masked protesters from the Champs Élysées after the annual Bastille Day military parade ended in Paris on Sunday.

The cycling world was in shock when Rohan Dennis quit the Tour de France mid-race. Here's what tipped him o...

Our man in Bagnere-de-Bigorre has all the latest on Simon Yates's first Tour de France stage win and the mysterious abandonment of Rohan Dennis.

France has hit back at a US investigation into a new French tax on major internet companies, saying threats were not the way allies should resolve disputes.

Attitudes in France are hardening on wealth, whether you're a civil servant overdoing the expenses or a billionaire offering to pay for Notre Dame.

The organisers of the Tour de France are reportedly looking to launch a major women's race which “would be to women's cycling what the Tour de France is to ...

Team PYSO is on a high coming off a scorching Episode 13, and the Tour de France gets even higher as we head into the mountains. Cue the Floyd's of ...

Worries are growing that thousands of Brits in rural France are still unaware of just how Brexit could impact them, especially in the event of a no-deal, because ...

Temperatures in France are set to rise once again from next week, with predictions that the mercury will hit 40C in certain parts of the country from Monday.

Inside one day of the hardest job in sports commentary.

The US has set the stage to retaliate against a French tax on Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other American technology giants by implementing punishing tar...

Veteran cycling photographer Chris Auld captures the racing, scenery, and drama of the 2019 Tour.

Because the riders have to consume so much food, eating can feel like work, so the chef prepares meals that are as delicious as they are nutritious.

EasyJet has joined European rival Air France in condemning France's plans to add a new eco-tax to flights. The new charge, which ranges from $1.70 (€1.50)

The French military will employ a team of “futurologists and sci-fi writers” to consider future threats to the country and its interests. The policy from the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday and expressed concerns about the country's proposed digital services ...

A bike is a bike, right? Wrong. Especially if you're a professional bike team. With margins for the winner of a stage of the Tour de France often down to less than ...

Since the May 2018 visit to Australia by French President Emmanuel Macron, Australian commentators have continued to assert that French colonial control in ...

Liberians will no longer need to travel to Cote d'Ivore only to get a France short-stay visa. Terrance Wills, French Ambassador in Liberia announced the news ...

France has announced restrictions on water use in two-thirds of its départements as drought grips the country ahead of the summer holiday season. The ministry ...

We've said it again and again: there's so much more to France than just a trip to Paris. Case in point? The South of France—a.k.a. the Provence-Alpes-Côte ...

Nineteen bison that had escaped from a farm in southeast France have been shot dead for safety reasons, officials have said. The animals had wandered from ...

With France raising taxes on big tech firms, Washington says American companies are being unfairly targeted.

The Citroën 2CV seemed like the perfect car for a road trip through the Cévennes region. And in its own slow, cranky way, it was.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is set to spend two months off the bike in order to recover from his crash suffered during the stage 13 time trial at the Tour de ...

PARIS – “We're leaving because of the situation for the Jews in France,” said Simon and Alice Midal, long-time residents of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy suburb ...

France's long term “ambition” is to work with several other states to create a European Army to share in procurement, command and operations, Defense ...

A bit of misguided protectionism could spiral into a dangerous confrontation.

The French government has announced it will stop reimbursing patients for homeopathic treatment from 2021 after a major national study concluded the ...

France on Saturday detained 21 African migrants who surged into the Pantheon in Paris to push their claims for regularised status, police said.

'The Jerusalem Post' visits Paris with the Jewish Agency and takes an in-depth look at the state of the Jews in France.

France has launched the first of its six next-generation nuclear attack submarines in a ceremony in Cherbourg before a crowd of construction personnel and ...

For the second consecutive year, we were treated to a captivating chase and thrilling late catch at the finish to determine the champion of La Course. Whereas ...

EMMANUEL MACRON looks more fragile than ever after the French capital descended into another furious wave of protests and “screams of revolution” filled ...

Charles de Gaulle was perhaps the most thoughtful and impressive statesman of the twentieth century. His only possible rival in this regard is Winston Churchill, ...

France has registered its highest temperature since records began as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe.

He may have finished below all of his GC rivals for the Tour de France podium in the Pau time trial on stage 13 on Friday but, according to his sports director, ...

Two thousand metres above sea level, the Col du Tourmalet has regularly provided the canvas on which some of the Tour de France's most enduring tales have ...

The iconic Tour de France yellow jersey began on a whim. At the inception of the 5,560-kilometer cycling competition in 1903, no clear indicator existed that ...

CHERBOURG, France — French shipbuilder Naval Group on Friday launched the Suffren nuclear-powered attack submarine here under the gaze of President ...

A blessing or a curse? Fourth overall and decked out in the white jersey, Enric Mas couldn't have asked for much more from his debut Tour de France as it ...

Algeria is through to the Africa Cup of Nations final, and fans in France are thrilled, but celebrations after the semi-final were marred by clashes with police and ...

Caleb Ewan sprints to victory in Toulouse after a short flat stage through the Tarn region of France.

Woman run over by celebrating Algerian fan in Montpellier while shops looted in Paris after team's quarter-final win.

The French government has banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood within a year of sexual activity since 2016. On Wednesday it said it would lower ...

President Donald Trump could fight back against France's new tax on U.S. technology companies by unleashing biting tariffs on key French goods, according to ...

Dave Watson was the first person ever to gap over the Tour de France on a mountain bike in 2003. The Canadian, who was 21 at the time, soared over the ...

The new tax could bring in some $200 million that would be used to support modes of travel that pollute less — such as trains.

Bernard Arnault is now the world's second-richest person, according to Forbes' calculations. The luxury goods titan behind such brands as Louis Vuitton and ...

As thousands of tourists head to France by car this summer, drivers have asked The Local to warn of some of the scams being carried out against foreign ...

The Financial Markets Authority (AMF), France's top financial organization, plans to release an experimental regulatory framework for crypto firms later this ...

We are schizophrenic about the French. We have been for centuries. They are cheating arrogant blighters who deceive stout-hearted Britons with regularity.

France celebrates Bastille Day with a French inventor hovering above the Champs-Élysées on a jet-powered flyboard.

A mountain bike rider has performed a stunt jump over the peloton of the Tour de France, in the same week as the famous yellow jersey celebrates its 100th ...

For the time trial, teams and riders use technology to gain every advantage possible. We talk rider position vs aerodynamics. Metabolic efficiency vs wind tunnel ...

On stage 10 of the 2019 Tour de France, in what is becoming something of a tradition, a mountain biker jumped over the peloton. Some people think this stunt is ...

Tehran praises French efforts to de-escalate nuclear crisis as Macron's top diplomatic adviser visits Iran for talks.

Italy had more overnight stays by foreign nationals than tourist hotspot France, it's been claimed.

In Australia, they are the late-night spinners — a global network of Tour de France television spectators who sit at their spinning wheels creating yarn.

Which smart trainers and power meters are the Tour de France riders using? Here's all the details you wanted to know.

France is falling behind on tackling the climate emergency despite ambitious promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a new report has found, saying ...

From Tour de France pros to beginner cyclists, we all sweat. But we don't sweat the same – at least in terms of how much sodium we lose. What this means is ...

This year, festival organisers have chosen to focus on the contemporary issues of refugees, exile and exclusion.

Australian Richie Porte loses more time in the Tour de France as crosswinds cause chaos at the front of the peloton, while Caleb Ewan and Michael Matthews ...

Rohan Dennis simply "vanished" in the middle of Stage 12 in the Pyrenees.

Australian Tour debutant Caleb Ewan has missed out on a maiden stage victory at the Tour de France by a matter of centimetres in a thrilling, high-paced sprint ...

France through the French Agency for Development is working in Pakistan providing technical and financial support in energy sector where Euros 315 million ...