Running battles developed after mobs turned on television crews and press photographers

Funerals for British soldiers who had lain undiscovered in a French field since WWI

The French, as we all know, are universally law-abiding, thoughtful and polite. Elizabeth Truss, the childcare minister, must have a point: it begins with the discipline instilled in nursery schools.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Paris today in a final attempt to block a vote in parliament tomorrow that is set to legalise gay marriage.

Scuffles broke out in the French parliament in the early hours of as right-wing opposition to a gay marriage law becomes increasingly strident and ill-tempered.

A French family, – including four young children – taken hostage on the Cameroon-Nigeria border two months ago, has been released unharmed.

Prosecutors have begun a formal investigation into allegations that the former President, Nicolas Sarkozy, took more than €50 million (£43 million) from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, it emerged.

Breast implant firm’s founder faces fraud charge alongside four colleagues

John Lichfield charts the 40-year-old's progress from teen delinquent to the notorious crime boss inspired by Hollywood gangsters

The Independent had pointed out that there had been no public follow-up on the promise to donate the former England captain's wages to chairt