French news

Six people have now died and one person is missing after severe flooding in southeast France, as the region suffered intense storms twice in just over a week.

Flights at French airports and TGV and Eurostar trains are all expected to be disrupted on Thursday along with many other transport services.

The fédération de chasse des Ardennes said that it 'strongly condemned' the hunt 

A court will rule in January over a case of alleged maltreatment of a hippo by a French circus.

Gas prices rise again, local railway timetables are set to change, help to buy electric bikes, and some tax deadlines you may need to know

Red weather alerts have now been lifted for the Var and Alpes-Maritimes, but three departments in the southeast are on orange flood alert following the weekend's storms

A French patissier who was imprisoned and then released on conditional parole for two years in China for his part in the 2017 expired flour scandal has arrived back home in France.

Outdoor heaters used by restaurants to heat terraces may soon be banned in France due to their high levels of pollution - with the city of Rennes having banned them already.

Two departments in southeast France are on red alert for rain and flooding today (December 1) and three are on orange alert, as a state of natural catastrophe is declared after last week’s deadly floods.

An animal refuge has told how they had to cut one kilogram of dreadlocks off the back of a cat which had become too fat to clean itself – and that the cat has now been adopted.