‘How can we make opera relevant to our times, make it more than pure entertainment?’Stéphane Lissner, the director of the French national opera, is going all out to recruit new opera-loversSat Nov 12 2016 - 00:00
Trump’s climate change denial poses big threat to global fightUS president-elect has promised to tear up the Paris climate accord ratified last yearThu Nov 10 2016 - 18:50
Lara Marlowe: The world has just become a more dangerous placeAnger and disillusionment that propelled Trump to power is an epidemic in the WestWed Nov 09 2016 - 15:47
Remains of migrant life strewn across the Stalingrad campThe ‘Paris Jungle’ was home to nearly 4,000 people who have now been evacuatedFri Nov 04 2016 - 19:13
Women lead in prestigious French literary awardsLeila Slimani wins the Prix Goncourt and Prix Renaudot awarded to Yasmina RezaThu Nov 03 2016 - 18:29
How do Garda earnings compare with their counterparts elsewhere in Europe?Police in France and Spain have staged protests and withdrawn from some dutiesThu Nov 03 2016 - 16:37
French authorites move final 1,500 minors from Calais campChildren dispersed around France, possibly complicating proposal to bring 200 to IrelandWed Nov 02 2016 - 11:33
Hollande vows Calais site will be cleared of minors ‘within days’‘They haven’t said they want to go to Ireland,’ says interior ministry figureWed Nov 02 2016 - 01:00
Former general Michel Aoun elected president of LebanonElection of military man (81) with support of Syria ends 2½ years of political stalemateTue Nov 01 2016 - 01:00
French officials begin evacuation of Calais ‘Jungle’Calm prevails throughout camp as first buses depart for reception centres across the countrySun Oct 23 2016 - 13:03
Henri Fantin-Latour: ‘The painter of silence’The first monographic exhibition in Paris since 1982 of the neglected 19th century masterSat Oct 22 2016 - 06:00
Anthony Foley: French inquiries into death to take several weeksOfficial says no evidence to ‘suspect anything untoward’ happened to late Munster head coachWed Oct 19 2016 - 18:56
Anthony Foley died of acute pulmonary oedema caused by heart diseaseMunster head coach’s remains will be flown home to Shannon Airport on WednesdayTue Oct 18 2016 - 19:20
‘Words can’t say it . . . I miss him’: Limerick pays tribute to FoleyMinister for Finance and bishop join tributes to late Munster coachTue Oct 18 2016 - 12:54
Loadsa Monet: the rich Russian who patroned Picasso, made MatisseAfter being trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Russia’s Shchukin collection, including works by Picasso and Matisse, is back in Paris for a blockbuster showTue Oct 18 2016 - 06:00
Cause of Anthony Foley’s death may be known on WednesdayOnce autopsy is completed Munster head coach will be released to his familyMon Oct 17 2016 - 18:09
Conservative candidates set out stalls in French presidential raceEx-prime minister Alain Juppé edges ahead of six rivals in Les Républicains TV debateFri Oct 14 2016 - 18:45
François Hollande’s comments raising hackles across FrancePresident manages to offend almost everyone, including judges, footballers and his exThu Oct 13 2016 - 19:27
Disliked François Hollande spills all on love and enemiesFrench president says political right is ‘steeped in revenge, reaction, regression’Wed Oct 12 2016 - 18:51
Putin cancels visit to Paris in midst of Franco-Russian crisisDiplomatic row around situation in Aleppo, where France accuses Russia of war crimesTue Oct 11 2016 - 14:40
François Mitterrand’s love letters reveal passion for mistress‘You were the chance of my life,’ late French president wrote to Anne PingeotMon Oct 10 2016 - 15:17
Islamist saboteurs ‘tampering with French planes’Air France personnel find ‘Allahu akbar’ scrawled on fuel tanks of almost 40 aircraftFri Oct 07 2016 - 01:00
Evidence of co-ordination of European terrorist attacksA computer found in a bin in Brussels points to concerted efforts to orchestrate attacksFri Oct 07 2016 - 01:00
Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint, jewellery worth millions stolenKanye West abruptly ends concert in New York citing a ‘family emergency’ at Paris hotelMon Oct 03 2016 - 18:33
‘Angry’ French education minister hits back at Pope FrancisPontiff’s claim that schools in France teach ‘gender theory’ draws condemnationMon Oct 03 2016 - 16:30
Paris goes Wilde over Oscar exhibitionNew collection at Petit Palais celebrates the rebellious writer’s life and workMon Oct 03 2016 - 00:00
Emotions high as lights go out on ‘Rosetta’ for last timeIrish scientists on team applaud success of mission after 8bn kilometres of travelFri Sept 30 2016 - 18:34
Alain Juppé only candidate who could defeat Marine Le Pen, study showsFor now, a left-wing candidate has little chance of getting to the second roundThu Sept 29 2016 - 13:22
Apple tax: IDA chief unravels vexed issue of avoidance and low rateMartin Shanahan pleads case on corporate ruling before Bar of global foreign investorsWed Sept 28 2016 - 18:01
François Hollande promises to demolish the ‘Jungle’President says Britain has an obligation to France over immigrantsTue Sept 27 2016 - 01:00
Reporting terror: France learns the hard wayBetween the Charlie Hebdo and Nice massacres, French media changed their approach to such violent attacks, and the public’s reaction changed tooSat Sept 24 2016 - 06:00
Brexit a concern for Oxford’s Irish vice-chancellorProf Louise Richardson fears dramatic increase in fees for university’s studentsTue Sept 20 2016 - 01:02
Sarkozy joins Healy-Rae and Trump on grasp of climate change‘Sahara became a desert, not because of industry’, says French presidential candidateThu Sept 15 2016 - 16:29
Schiaparelli’s Mars landing will be a giant leap for EuropeEuropean Space Agency’s ExoMars programme to determine if there’s life on MarsThu Sept 15 2016 - 01:00
Assuring France that Muslims feel responsible but not guiltyA voice for the silent majority of French Muslims calls for an Islamic reformationWed Sept 14 2016 - 01:00
François Hollande vows to defend democracy as popularity tanksFrench president slams terrorists, the right and City of London in combative speechThu Sept 08 2016 - 17:52
Memorial unveiled in Paris to designer Eileen GrayPioneering talent remembered in magical moment almost 40 years after her deathWed Sept 07 2016 - 18:11
Migrant crisis: Paris mayor unveils refugee camp planMayor Anne Hidalgo says Paris refugee camp is the first in a dense urban zone in EuropeWed Sept 07 2016 - 01:00
Manuel Valls rejects New York Times account of anti-Muslim ‘apartheid’French prime minister lashes out at “intolerable” New York Times articleTue Sept 06 2016 - 21:19
Migrant crisis: Calais marches to demand closure of JungleUp to 10,000 now living on wasteland site in tents and without adequate water or toiletsTue Sept 06 2016 - 08:26
Nicolas Sarkozy may be tried for illegal campaign financingProsecutor believes former French president knew of €18m in bogus bills sent to UMPMon Sept 05 2016 - 19:21
Apple tax ruling: EC ‘certain’ decision to charge €13bn is validPierre Moscovici: Apple ‘a company which didn’t pay as much tax as it should have’Sat Sept 03 2016 - 01:00
French will convict Ian Bailey of murder, says lawyerJournalist could receive 30-year prison sentence in absentia for voluntary homicideFri Sept 02 2016 - 01:00
Marc Riboud wandered world capturing life on cameraLegendary photographer’s image helped change US public opinion on Vietnam WarThu Sept 01 2016 - 14:58
France’s Emmanuel Macron quits, paving way for presidential bidOutgoing minister delivers resignation speech laced with criticism of Francois HollandeTue Aug 30 2016 - 22:06
François Hollande issues unilateral French deadline for BrexitIn foreign policy address, French president also seeks to impose deadline for BrexitTue Aug 30 2016 - 18:16
French presidential polls to be battle of unpopularityWhile Francois Hollande has yet to declare, there is little doubt he will seek re-electionTue Aug 30 2016 - 01:00
The world catches up with Stefan Zweig’s visionThe Austrian writer of the 1930s, a friend of James Joyce and inspiration for Wes Anderson, is back in vogue as his view of a world changing for the worse captures the zeitgeistWed Aug 24 2016 - 06:00
Terror attacks: France’s war on jihadism marked by turmoilFrustration and confusion often permeates the state’s reaction to suspected IslamistsWed Aug 10 2016 - 01:00
French PM vows plan to tackle jihadist-related prison crisisSharp increase in prisoner numbers fuels overcrowding and appalling conditionsTue Aug 09 2016 - 01:00
