France

France's far-right National Front party leader has vowed to hold a referendum on whether France should stay in the EU if she wins the 2017 presidential election.

The city of Nice has lifted a controversial ban on burkinis - the latest French seaside resort to do so, in line with a national court ruling.

The leader of French Polynesia's pro-independence movement Oscar Temaru has met the French President Francois Hollande during his quest to become a candidate in the French presidential election.

The French overseas minister George Pau-Langevin has resigned, citing personal reasons.

The Australian woman credited with creating the burkini says bans on the full-bodied Islamic swimsuit in France have boosted sales.

The leader of French Polynesia's pro-independence movement Oscar Temaru says a win in Tahiti in next year's French presidential election would amount to self-proclaimed independence.

Wildfires in southern France are threatening the country's second largest city.

French Polynesia's Protestant church has decided to take France to the International Criminal Court over the legacy of the French nuclear weapons tests.

A fire during a birthday party at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen has killed at least 13 people and injured six.

One of the men suspected of killing a priest at a church in northern France was being monitored by police and was wearing a surveillance tag at the time of the attack, officials say.

Two attackers have killed a priest and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France before being shot dead by French police.

The French Prime Minister has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice, where an attacker driving a lorry killed 84 people.