A new French board game illustrates modern wealth inequality by forcing players to fight each other as they struggle to be accepted by the rich.

French authorities on Wednesday banned two US pesticides which ecologists deem harmful to bees.

The accommodation-booking service Airbnb does not need an estate agent's licence to operate in France, Europe's top court has ruled. The French tourism association had complained that Airbnb did not comply with French property laws. It means the app's users avoid a threat of disruption to its service in the country.

French yellow vest protesters set fires along a march route through Paris on Saturday to drive home their message to a government they see as out of touch with the problems of the poor: that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn't the only problem France needs to solve.

France’s Yellow Vest protests are the latest Western uprising against rule by technocratic insiders. By Christopher Caldwell.

A €2,000 prize is offered for whoever can decipher a weird rock inscription in western France.

Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said. Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies – one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region in central France.

Thousands of protesters gathered across France and in over 30 cities around the world to march against the activities of Bayer-Monsanto and others agrochemical giants on Saturday, while Monsanto lost its third lawsuit in the US.

Amazon warehouses in the U.K. and France routinely discard unused products, with one facility sending 293,000 items to the trash heap during a nine-month period, according to media reports. Reporters posing as Amazon employees found a site dubbed the "destruction zone," where they secretly filmed Amazon workers loading brand new toys, kitchen equipment and flat-screen TVs for transportation to dumps, according to a report in Britain's Daily Mail.

The first mass was held at Notre Dame since a ferocious fire destroyed the roof, spire and part of the Paris cathedral's vault — with all present wearing hard-hats, Euronews reports.

Paris is about to get even more beautiful.

France’s interior minister has asked the Paris police chief to explain a controversial riot police operation to remove climate activists from a bridge, after a video of officers using pepper spray and dragging protesters went viral on social media. The interior ministry said the police operation to clear the demonstrators was “necessary to restore traffic circulation in the centre of Paris”.

Most people might not be really that informed about how bees help humans and the environment. Bees are one of the insects that assist the pollination process. Pollination is how insects such as bees and butterflies transfer pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma which leads to fertilization resulting to the production of a new seed.

The Trump administration says the new 3% tax on sales in France will harm US online giants.

This is the tale of a man who fled from desperate confinement, whirled into Polynesian dreamlands on a plank, sailed back to “civilization,” and then, his genius predictably unremunerated, had to tour the universe in a little room. His biographer calls him “an unfortunate fellow who had come to maturity penniless and poorly educated.” Unfortunate was likewise how he ended.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday he had approved the creation of a space command within the French air force to improve the country's defence capabilities.

The French army is to create a "red team" of sci-fi writers to imagine possible future threats. A new report by the Defence Innovation Agency (DIA) said the visionaries will "propose scenarios of disruption" that military strategists may not think of. The team's highly confidential work will be important in the fight against "malicious elements", the report states.

France will block an EU trade deal with Brazil and its neighbours over the country's handling of fires in the Amazon rainforest, a spokesperson for Emmanuel Macron has said. Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has been criticised around the world for his response to the fires, which scientists say are man-made and campaigners have linked to businesses looking to exploit the land.

Joint private-law enforcement efforts shuts down two-year-old Retadup malware operation for good.

Activists say stinking sludge is linked to nitrates in fertilisers from intensive farming