Teachers and parents in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris have staged several weeks of strikes and protests in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, leveraging the Games as they call for urgent measures to help struggling state schools in mainland...
The tornado damaged hundreds of homes.
A police crackdown that aims to clear a poor suburb of petty crime and street vendors before the Paris 2024 Olympics is putting pressure on an overcrowded prison operating at almost double its capacity.
Deposits taken on the first stage or 180 units amount to around $100m of sales.
The NSW State Emergency Service received more than 4000 calls in the last 24 hours.
His clandestine factory produced a nationwide supply of 'Pink Porsche' ecstasy tablets.
Times: Last year the drug killed more young Americans than car accidents or guns.
Review highlights the 'scale of impact' of Mount Maunganui's polluted airshed.
Rumours that French pop star Aya Nakamara may sing at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics have triggered a flurry of attacks from the French far right, questioning the host country’s ability to appreciate the globally acclaimed talent...
The organisers of the Paris Olympics are set to take the keys for the athletes' village on Thursday a day ahead of schedule, reinforcing growing confidence that they will be ready for the Games.
A French court handed down Friday suspended jail sentences to three officers in a rare case of alleged police brutality after a black man suffered irreversible rectal injuries.
Three policemen went on trial in France on Tuesday over an assault that inflicted severe rectal injuries to a black man during a stop and search in 2017 in a case that provoked shock across the country.
It bills itself as the biggest art and antiques market in the world, but Saint-Ouen’s famed flea market is also known for the vast array counterfeit luxury goods on offer. Now, with Paris set to welcome millions of visitors when it hosts the 2024...
French police conducted identity checks on a "massive" scale in 2021, despite not having a doctrine to define their objectives or good practice during such checks, France's public audit office, the Cour des comptes, said in a report on Wednesday.
A new application that rewards businesses for making their toilets accessible to the public and helps users to find them is being rolled out in a Paris suburb. If everything goes to plan, the ICI Toilettes app could make its way into the capital –...
With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games a year away, construction for the Village that will host some 14,000 athletes is in full swing in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, which is the poorest in mainland France.
A team of social workers tasked with preventing public disorder in the Paris suburb of Malakoff did the rounds ahead of Bastille Day after weeks of rioting. On a sunny weekend evening, the modus operandi of engaging with the community appeared to...
During almost a week of riots that shook France after the death of Nahel M., killed by police during a traffic stop, youth associations and elected representatives spent time with young people on the ground. Their presence helped lower tensions,...
When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades...
How can France pick up the pieces? From the anger over a police shooting and its attempted cover-up, to the riots and destruction that have left a local mayor's wife in hospital, has the violence now drowned out the legitimate outrage over what...
After two nights of rioting, battle lines are drawn over Tuesday's police shooting of Nahel, the 17-year-old driver who tried to flee the scene in Nanterre, west of Paris. One officer faces potential murder charges. The fact that he is even in...
