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E-scooters, operated by Tier Mobility and Lime, parked in a dedicated scooter bay in Paris

Paris to ban rental e-scooters from streets

Paris will this week ban rental electric scooters from its streets, leaving fans desolate but relieving those who loathed their "nuisance" factor.

News Lens • 30 Aug 23

Cemetery authorities have started a major drive to 're-naturalise' the site

Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery goes greener

The Père Lachaise in Paris, the most visited cemetery in the world thanks to celebrities buried there, is welcoming crowds back after years of Covid restrictions with a back-to-nature setting that helps them keep cool in the summer heat.

World • 12 Aug 23

Staff at JDD have been on strike for more than a month

French newspaper journalists in standoff over editor

Journalists at France's sole dedicated national Sunday newspaper have vowed to press on with a strike in protest at the appointment of a new editor close to the far right, pursuing the longest such action in French media for almost half a century.

World • 25 Jul 23

Cars on fire after today's march in memory of the victim turned violent

Third night of riots in France after police shoot teen

Violence has erupted for a third night in major French cities as President Emmanuel Macron fights to contain mounting unrest triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.

World • 29 Jun 23

The blast left four people seriously injured, while 33 others sustained lesser injuries, according to police

One missing, 6 in critical condition after Paris blast

Six people remained in critical condition and one person was believed still missing, a day after a blast ripped through a building in central Paris, the city's public prosecution office said.

World • 22 Jun 23

A camp for people who are homeless in a car park near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

Homeless to be moved out of Paris before 2024 Olympics

The French government plans to move homeless people out of Paris ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in the capital, sparking criticism from some mayors of regional towns and villages which are expected to house them.

Europe • 24 May 23

Taxes paid by workers rose last year as higher wages pushed earners into higher tax brackets, the OECD said today

Workers' wages hit by higher taxes and inflation - OECD

The Paris based think-tank, the OECD, has said taxes paid by workers rose last year as higher wages pushed earners into higher tax brackets.

Business • 25 Apr 23

A placard reading 'Macron, go for your retirement, not ours' is seen outside the Institute of Political Studies in Lille

French govt face no-confidence vote over pension reform

French President Emmanuel Macron's government faces no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house.

World • 18 Mar 23

A demonstration on Place de la Concorde in Paris after the government pushed pension reform through parliament without a vote

Protests in France after pension reforms forced through

French police have intervened to clear demonstrators from a central Paris square where thousands of people have gathered in front of parliament to protest President Emmanuel Macron's pensions reform.

World • 16 Mar 23

A broad alliance of unions had called on workers to join the eighth day of nationwide demonstrations since mid-January against the unpopular policy

Protesters march for eighth day in French pension row

Protesters marched across France in a last-ditch effort to convince politicians not to back President Emmanuel Macron's pensions reform bill that would raise retirement age by two years to 64.

World • 15 Mar 23

Air France-KLM reported its highest fourth-quarter revenue at €7.1 billion, up almost 50% year-on-year

Air France-KLM reports better than expected Q4

Air France-KLM said today that its 2023 bookings were almost back to pre-pandemic levels as it reported a better-than expected fourth-quarter operating profit with global travel demand seeing a rebound.

Business • 17 Feb 23

The attack happened at Gare du Nord station

Six wounded in stabbing at Paris train station

An attacker stabbed six people at the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris before being shot and apprehended by police, authorities said.

World • 11 Jan 23

Earlier protesters clashed with police following an event which had been organised as a peaceful protest

Paris shooting suspect moved to police psychiatric unit

A 69-year-old suspect in yesterday's fatal shootings of three people in Paris has been taken from police custody to a police psychiatric unit, the French prosecutor said.

World • 24 Dec 22

Protests erupted amid reports that the suspect faces charges over an earlier sabre attack on a migrant camp

Three dead, three injured in Paris shooting

Three people have been killed and others have been injured in a shooting in central Paris.

World • 23 Dec 22

130 people were killed during the gun and bomb attacks in Paris in November 2015

Surgeon fined for trying to sell Bataclan attack X-Ray

A Paris court has convicted a surgeon for trying to sell online an X-Ray image of a wounded arm of a woman who survived the 2015 terror attacks in the French capital.

World • 30 Nov 22

Mehran Karimi Nasseri died of natural causes just before midday

Iranian man stuck in Paris airport for 18 years dies

An Iranian man who got stuck for 18 years in a Paris airport - inspiring a Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks - died today at the terminal, an airport official said.

World • 15 Nov 22

The Eiffel Tower, usually bathed in a warm glow until 1am, will now go dark after the last visitor leaves at 11:45pm

Paris scales back monument lighting amid soaring cost

Paris will start switching off the ornamental lights that grace city monuments hours earlier than usual, plunging the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks in the dark to cope with surging electricity costs.

Business • 13 Sep 22

That decision means major disruptions are not likely to happen this weekend

Paris airport workers call off weekend strikes

Workers at France's main airport operator ADP said they would remove a strike notice for the weekend, as did the firefighters at Paris's international Charles de Gaulle airport the day before, a union source told Reuters.

Business • 08 Jul 22

A door of the Bataclan venue was decorated with the mural in 2018

Eight on trial for stealing Banksy art from Bataclan

Eight men will go on trial in Paris accused of stealing a Banksy artwork, painted on the door of the Bataclan concert venue to honour 90 people killed in the 2015 terror attacks.

World • 08 Jun 22

Some €180m of new spending is earmarked for infrastructure, including plans for major bike routes across the city

Paris investing €250m to create '100% bikeable' city

The city of Paris has promised to develop its network of secure cycling lanes as part of a five-year plan to make the French capital "100% bikeable" with €250 million of extra spending.

News Lens • 21 Oct 21

Isabelle and Claudine van den Bergh Cooke are dancers with the Moulin Rouge in Paris

Irish sisters high-kick it back onto Moulin Rouge stage

Two Irish sisters are preparing to return to the stage of the world-famous Moulin Rouge as it reopens in Paris tonight.

Paris • 10 Sep 21

Katie Healy Nolan, and her now husband David, were at the Bataclan concert hall, when three jihadists stormed the performance, killing 90 people

Bataclan survivor - 'Something we live with every day'

An Irish woman, who along with her then boyfriend, survived the 2015 Paris attacks has said the opening of today's criminal trial in France "can only be a good thing".

World • 08 Sep 21

French Gendarmes escort Salah Abdeslam to the trial which is expected to last until May 2022

Paris terror attack suspect Abdeslam appears in court

France's biggest trial in modern history has opened in Paris over the November 2015 attacks that saw 130 people killed.

World • 08 Sep 21

Police estimated some 13,500 people demonstrated on the streets of Paris

Thousands protest against Covid health pass in France

Thousands of people have protested in Paris and other French cities against a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to a wide array of public venues.

Coronavirus • 31 Jul 21

Jewellery and precious stones were stolen from famed jeweller Chaumet's store near the Champs-Elysees

Two held after Paris jeweller e-scooter robbery

French police have arrested two suspects after a robbery at a Paris jewellers where a thief made off with up to €3 million worth of jewellery after arriving and making his getaway on an electronic scooter.

Europe • 28 Jul 21