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LATEST FRANCE NEWS WITH UPDATES ON ISLAMIC STATE ATTACKS

French police charge four suspects with robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint and leaving her bound and gagged in Paris apartment…and six more remain in custody

12/01/17 23:02

Four men have been charged for their involvement in the armed robbery of Kim Kardashian in Paris. The reality TV star had a gun pointed at her, her hands and feet bound with cable ties and was left in the bath after masked men with police badges on their jackets burst into her room at a hotel in the city's exclusive 8th arrondissement. Four men - aged between 27 and 64 - have now been charged and will remain in provisional detention. One of the men facing a prison sentence is Yunice A, 63. Six more people could also be charged on Friday, the prosecutor's office said. ...read

12/01/17 10:31

Guy Wildenstein, 70, was on Thursday cleared by a Paris court of hiding properties and millions of euros in paintings by artists such as Monet and Picasso from the taxman.

11/01/17 17:11

Further details of the gang that held up Kardashian in the terrifying jewel heist in Paris have emerged. The thieves are said to include men nicknamed 'Old Omar', 'Broken Nose' and 'Marceau the gypsy'.

11/01/17 15:09

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Far-Right National Front, is ahead in the polls as France heads towards the first round of presidential elections in the spring.

11/01/17 14:54

Production of the taxis, named the Sea Bubble, will start next month and tests of the vessels will be carried out in the French capital next year.

10/01/17 14:41

The two brothers are among 17 alleged criminals linked to the armed robbery of the 36-year-old reality TV star in Paris, France, in October.

10/01/17 14:03

Bridget Malcolm, 25, appears to have embarked on a second honeymoon with Nathaniel Hoho after the model posted a snap from Paris to Instagram on Tuesday.

10/01/17 11:30

There is ‘some discussion’ within Nato over the future of Britain holding the No 2 position in Nato, currently held by General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, pictured, according to military experts.

10/01/17 07:05

Kim Kardashian's chauffeur was among the 17 arrested in connection with her armed robbery in Paris, it emerged tonight. It gives weight to theories the brutal crime was an inside job.

09/01/17 18:59

The 36-year-old wife of Kanye West was robbed at gunpoint of about 9million euros worth of jewellery by masked men who tied her up in her apartment in the French capital early on October 3.

09/01/17 11:11

She lost millions of pounds worth of jewellery during a harrowing armed robbery in Paris on October 3. 

09/01/17 08:55

He is the doctor whose book offering simple, but revelatory, advice on how to live longer has taken France by storm. Now Michel Cymes is sharing his medical insights and research with us Brits, too.

08/01/17 19:30

Former EastEnders star Sid Owen's beautiful French mansion left Through The Keyhole viewers in disbelief on Saturday night.

07/01/17 13:36

The Daily Mail has calculated a half-term skiing jaunt for a family of four costing £4,340 everything-included at Les Arcs 1950 family resort above Bourg Saint Maurice in France.

06/01/17 23:56

Foreign visitors to the Louvre (pictured) decreased by a fifth to 7.3 million last year, from just under 10 million in 2015, when it was the most-visited museum in the world.

06/01/17 23:34

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to sell its French clearing business to Euronext for £434million, in a bid to win regulatory approval for its controversial German takeover.

06/01/17 18:58

The 48-year-old leader of the National Front (FN), who is an MEP, is said to have employed two EU-funded assistants but then used them for her non-parliamentary work.

06/01/17 18:40

Le Pen, who has promised to dump the euro and hold a Brexit-style referendum, has recently appeared to soften her stance, saying she is open to a 'common currency' alongside a national currency.

05/01/17 21:11

As the French government enacted a new law forcing employers not to send staff emails outside of working hours, managers said the country's workforce is having to adjust to the change.

05/01/17 20:55

French companies will be required to guarantee their employees a 'right to disconnect' from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking.

05/01/17 18:05

Incredibly Osama Aoukili was unhurt in the drama, which happened near France's border with Switzerland on Friday. He said: 'I told myself this was my father's car and that it meant a lot to him.'

05/01/17 14:40

The body of the unnamed man was found in the lorry at a cafe in Ashford, Kent - despite the fact French authorities had checked the vehicle prior to its departure from a Calais port.

05/01/17 08:04

A French farmer (pictured), who has become a folk hero for helping African migrants slip across the border from Italy and giving them shelter, went on trial today for aiding illegal arrivals.

04/01/17 23:04

Investigations found 'a probable link between the death and the administration of Uvesterol D', France's ANSM health agency revealed.

04/01/17 22:27

French firebrand socialist Arnaud Montebourg has proposed a supertax on banks to raise 5 billion euros (£4.25 billion) and has said that he would be prepared to nationalise a bank if elected president.

04/01/17 19:02

The reputation of Paris as the City of Love has been given a huge boost by a new survey that shows its residents have more than twice as many lovers as Londoners.

04/01/17 18:20

The estimates from Eurostat confirm the expectation that Britain, already the most crowded major European country except for Holland, will continue to grow quickly in numbers.

03/01/17 18:02

All six defendants have gone on trail at Nanterre Correctional Court and are accused of invading the Duchess's privacy when she chose to sunbathe topless in public view during a holiday in France.

03/01/17 10:30

Fr Andrea Contin, pictured, is also accused of making home made pornographic videos and hiding the movies in plain sight by placing them in boxes featuring the names of various popes.

03/01/17 08:12

Francois Hollande stressed that supporting Iraq was one of the surest ways of securing Europe, while visiting Baghdad days after an ISIS suicide bomber killed 32 people in the Iraqi capital.

02/01/17 10:05

A switch to immobilise HGVs is being secretly developed by Government scientists who fear terrorist massacres in the UK like those seen in Nice and Berlin last year.

30/12/16 14:48

French parents have been banned from smacking children under new legislation which has been enacted and couples getting married in the country will have to vow not to beat their offspring.

29/12/16 17:07

In what will amount to a test case with huge ramifications for Europe's immigration crisis, lawyers representing 36 teenagers who lived in the Calais Jungle say they have been treated unlawfully.

29/12/16 14:08

In one reference to the crash, which claimed 92 lives, the French magazine depicted a jet hurtling downwards along with words translated as: 'Bad news... Putin wasn't on board'.

29/12/16 12:08

Passengers at the French capital's main airport have reported being asked to leave part of the terminal as police descended on the scene.

29/12/16 05:05

Jacqueline Sauvage, 69, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting her husband, Norbert Marot, three times in the back with a hunting rifle in 2012.

28/12/16 17:23

Laforêt advertised the apartment in the Levallois-Perret suburb of the capital, with a message: 'important attention for the selection of tenants: French nationality compulsory, no blacks.'

28/12/16 13:18

Julien Sanchez, the Front National mayor of Beaucaire in southern France, insists he has received 'lots of support from Britons' after christening the road Brexit Street.

27/12/16 11:50

The sprawling Jungle migrant camp in Calais was razed in October with thousands of migrants transported around France to new official accommodation.

24/12/16 01:19

It is hoped that the solar panel road in Tourouvre-au-Perche could eventually provide enough energy to power the small Normandy village's street lights.

23/12/16 20:18

Benedetto Bufalino covered the drum of a cement mixer in mirrors and set up spotlights. The truck was on display outside a construction site in Lyon, France earlier this month.

23/12/16 01:16

Australian actor Joel Edgerton is rumoured to be dating French model Dayana Reeves after the pair were spotted attending Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

23/12/16 00:27

The pupils from science class STD2A at the Lycee Federic Mistral high school in Avignon said they wanted to do something original for their end of term snap and posed naked.

21/12/16 17:19

Friends of the 24-year-old Syrian Hamoude Kahlil have raised suspicions that he is just as interested in citizenship as in his fiancee Sarah Gayton, whom he met in the Calais Jungle.

21/12/16 10:10

Estate agent Sandrine Devillard, who was 25 years younger than husband Marcel Amphoux, challenged a 'will' written on the back of an envelope which cut her from his inheritance.

21/12/16 10:08

A spooky statue with half its face missing is among the creepy items found in an abandoned mansion in the French countryside but the photographer will not reveal the location.

20/12/16 12:51

They split their time between LA with their father Johnny Depp and France with their mother Vanessa Paradis.

19/12/16 12:07

The amorous animal even nibbled the wrist of Yves Courtel, who was filming, to get her to join him in the water off the coast of Brittany, France - but she refused because of his bad breath.

17/12/16 16:07

French police have torn down a migrant camp which sprung up in the shadow of the Eurostar in Paris - near a much criticised £6million help centre for refugees - and evicted 500 settlers.

16/12/16 20:12

The youngsters were served classic dishes from the country like frog's legs, steak tartare and dessert cheese in a video made by digital content agency The Cut and asked what they thought.

15/12/16 02:11

TV channel France 2 went undercover in various areas with high Islamic populations in Paris to show how conservative Muslim men are enforcing social segregation in public spaces.

13/12/16 17:54

Simon Beck, from Bracknell, Berkshire, walks the equivalent of up to 25 miles as he shuffles through the snow to create giant patterns in the French Alps.

12/12/16 22:47

She was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris apartment on October 2. Now over two months since the harrowing incident Kim Kardashian looks to be no closer to justice.

12/12/16 21:28

Brothers Jack and Harry Williams, who co-wrote the hit BBC drama, revealed they were inspired by 'genius' detective Jean-Francois Abgrall, who cracked the case of a serial killer in France.

12/12/16 21:05

A previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci of the martyr San Sebastian has been valued at £12.6m after being brought in for valuation out of the blue by a retired French doctor.

12/12/16 13:31

A manhunt is underway after the gang of four thieves targeted the van on a major road near the town of Dardilly, near Lyon in France.

12/12/16 10:25

Traffickers have drawn some of the children brought to Britain from the Calais Jungle into prostitution or slavery, it has been claimed. Council leaders have reported that some have disappeared.

12/12/16 09:18

The French prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said it is 'absolutely necessary' to extend the state of emergency in place there since the Paris attacks (pictured) until July 15 next year.

12/12/16 00:22

Shot by photographer Fred Goudon the calendar sees the young male farmers from the regions of Normandie, Provence, Champagne and Picardie go about their day - only sans vêtements.

10/12/16 11:05

Following the closure of the Calais Jungle, UK schools will be taking in hundreds of child refugees. Councils have already processed 200 minors and have been told to expect more in 2017.

09/12/16 20:13

Khalid Safi, 18, pictured, was stabbed through the heart near the entrance to the University of Arts London in Acton last week - Scotland Yard are still hunting for his killer today.

09/12/16 12:46

Tourist attractions across the French capital have been temporarily closed due to a rising rodent problem which has been blamed on increased littering in Paris.

08/12/16 19:38

A small study in France has found prolonged marijuana use could wear down retinal ganglion cells, the nerves that sit just behind the retina.

08/12/16 17:01

Benoit de Juvigny risked further inflaming tensions ahead of the looming negotiations by boasting about the prospects of business moving across the channel.

08/12/16 16:37

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said today the children of illegal immigrants should be refused school places and free healthcare.

08/12/16 15:00

An Australian woman, Chelsea Wilson, has won the title of Le Meilleur Pâtissier, the French version of the Great British Bake Off.

08/12/16 00:06

An 'electrical problem' halted all trains between London and Paris today, with hundreds of passengers stranded for hours.

07/12/16 16:15

Paris is suffering its worst winter pollution in a decade even though the city has imposed traffic restrictions and offered free transportation to commuters.

07/12/16 05:24

Willow Smith and her mum Jada were never far from each other's side as they attended the Chanel Collection des Metiers d'Art 2016/17: Paris Cosmopolite on Tuesday.

07/12/16 03:00

Lionel Richie's daughter turned heads with her statement head corsage as she prepared to walk for Lagerfeld.

06/12/16 23:41

From the beaches of the Cote D'Azur to the roof of the Paris opera house, the blockbuster movie Befikre - 'Carefree' in English - is filled with picture postcard scenes of France.

06/12/16 22:55

The 20-year-old strutted down the storied catwalk at Paris' Grand Palais for the annual event, which was broadcast on Monday night. Older sister Gigi Hadid got emotional, telling her 'I'm so proud.'

06/12/16 17:04

A prank gone wrong has left two french men facing manslaughter charges, after they left their drunk, naked friend outside in temperatures below 3C and he died in Seine Saint-Denis, France.

06/12/16 08:23

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced his candidacy for next year's presidential election. Mr Valls will face other contenders in the Socialist primary next month.

05/12/16 15:31

A 32-year-old French man has been ordered two years of jail time and a £30,000 fine after repeatedly visiting pro-ISIS websites. His conviction has been criticised by human rights activists.

05/12/16 15:09

The exotic dancers appeared at the Christmas Market in Brest, western France before a guerrilla performance on several poles, including one on a children's merry-go-round.

05/12/16 13:15

The Victoria's Secret Angels couldn't hide their excitement as they prepared to jet to Paris for this year's fashion show on Wednesday.

05/12/16 13:14

The Victoria's Secret Angels have arrived in Paris after flying in style by private plane.

05/12/16 13:13

The blonde and brunette beauties, 21 and 22, showed off their leggy figures in matching white jeans as they hit the shops - guarded by the team of Kim Kardashian's fired bodyguard Pascal Duvier.

04/12/16 17:12

A judge warned the town council of Publier - on the shores of Lake Geneva -  that it will be fined €100 a day if the marble effigy is not removed within three months.

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