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Mr Macron’s outgoing government will remain in place until mid-August

Plus: one club represented by all four semi-finalists; more comebacks kings and queens; and on-field player arrests

At the end of a narrow suburban street north of Paris, a giant structure shrouded in a skin of mesh and steel looks like a football stadium, but is in fact a vast data centre.

France is yet to greenlight an edict from Pacific leaders to visit its territory of New Caledonia after riots, saying it remained the president's prerogative.

The speed, skill and flair on display in rugby sevens makes it an ideal Olympic sport. The Paris games should be no exception, especially given France’s own great rugby tradition.

French President Macron extends caretaker government until Olympics end, appoints Lucie Castets as prime minister. Political landscape in France remains di...

France's President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he would maintain the current centrist caretaker government through the end of the Paris Olympics to avoid “disorder”. His remarks came just after the leftist New Popular Front bloc, which won the most seats in parliament during the snap elections this month, finally…

UFC bantamweight Cody Gibson wants to head to France for a showdown with Taylor Lapilus, and then stay to make memories with his family.

France's left-wing New Popular Front alliance said on Tuesday it has agreed to propose Lucie Castets, a senior civil servant with the Paris Mayor's office, as their candidate for prime minister. Castets accepted the nomination “in all humility but with great conviction".