A French schoolboy has dug up a glass jar containing severed human fingers preserved in alcohol which police believe may belong to a local carpenter who lost four digits in an accident 30 years ago.

Nancy Wake, the French Resistance fighter who became Australia's most decorated World War II heroine, has died in a London hospital at the age of 98. Born in New Zealand and raised in Sydney, Ms Wake was nicknamed "The White Mouse" by the Gestapo because she was so hard to captu …

The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked.

Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week.

A sculpture of a Mayan warrior that sold for more than $4 million at a Paris auction house this week is a fake, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

Nearly 222 years after the French Revolution, a desk made by royal cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener is back in the Versailles Palace after being acquired by the French state for 6.75 million euros ($9.5 million).

French police have found stolen jewellery worth 14m euros (£12m; $19m) hidden in a drain in a Paris suburb.

French police say they have arrested a 63-year-old woman who was leading her 40-year-old companion along a busy shopping street by a leash attached to his exposed penis.

A World War II Spitfire which became the tomb of an Australian pilot missing for almost seven decades is expected to be transferred to Melbourne's Point Cook RAAF Museum.

An amateur wine group has paid a record $77,000 for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France's eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction.

Arguably the most widely recognised structure in the world, the Eiffel Tower was designed to stand for only 20 years -- and some predicted it would collapse long before then.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named "Man of the Year" by France's Le Monde newspaper, one of the five publications to cooperate with the whistleblowing website on its its latest release of leaked documents.

Les échanges ont été tendus à l'Assemblée, mercredi soir, où l'atmosphère rappelait celle entourant l'adoption de la loi antipiratage Hadopi.

A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes.

A French court will today declare whether who, if anyone, is to blame for the crash of a Concorde airliner outside Paris that killed 113 people more than 10 years ago.

A RETIRED French couple have come forward with 271 undocumented works by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth at least £50 million.

During the last week, French Internet users have been starting to receive letters as part of the graduated warning system built in to the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. The email warnings are being sent by Hadopi via France's ISPs.

French police are hunting thieves who sneaked on to a farmer's land under cover of darkness and harvested his entire crop of cabernet sauvignon grapes.

An 80-year-old French man is recovering in a state of shock in hospital after being freed from a year locked in a laundry room by a wife half his age and her alleged lover.

Reporters Without Borders (RWF) on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.

Letter stolen by notorious 19th-century book thief Guglielmo Libri had been gathering dust in a US college library

A French prisoner killed his cellmate then sliced open his chest to remove and eat his heart, a court has heard.

The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine.

In response to the country's "3 strikes" Hadopi legislation, last week a French ISP began offering a service to block file-sharing on customer connections for 'just' 2 euros per month.

A daring heist by armed bandits who made off with 200kg (440lb) of gold jewellery worth £5.5m has left French detectives baffled and quietly impressed.