Boy finds 30-year-old human fingers in jarSource: Reuters
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.
War heroine Nancy Wake diesSource:
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 …
Net giants challenge French data lawSource: BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake
Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week.
Mayan relic sold for $4 million is a fake?Source: Reuters
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.
Marie-Antoinette's desk back in VersaillesSource: abc.net.au
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).
Penis-leash couple nabbed at shopsSource: watoday.com.au
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.
Hi tech pays tribute to Eiffel Tower's originsSource: Google
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.
French court to rule on Concorde crashSource: Guardian Unlimited
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.
French ISP Refuses to Send Out Hadopi File-Sharing WarningsSource: torrentfreak.com
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.
Grape thieves get away red-handedSource: abc.net.au
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.
Man freed after year in wife's laundry prisonSource: abc.net.au
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.
Cyber-shelter for battered bloggersSource: theage.com.au
Reporters Without Borders (RWF) on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.
French jewel heist nets £5.5m haulSource: Guardian Unlimited
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.