A Frenchman detained last month with a large cache of arms was planning mass attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday, Ukrainian officials say.
The French cabinet has given the go-ahead for the president to force through highly controversial labour reforms, circumventing parliament.
India signs a deal with France to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.
French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez passes away at the age of 90.
Prince Charles is expected to call for better protection of the world's forests at the UN climate conference in Paris.
World leaders open an historic summit in Paris aimed at ending decades of political gridlock and forging an elusive agreement to avert calamitous global warming.
People wearing hold signs as they participate in the human chain demonstration near Republique Square on the eve of the COP21 Conference opening, Paris, France, 29 November 2015.
David Cameron is holding talks in Paris with French President Francois Hollande on co-operation in the fight against so-called Islamic State.
France's President Francois Hollande says the attacks in Paris that killed at least 127 people and wounded more than 180 are an "act of war" organised by Islamic State.
Violent storms and flooding have hit south-eastern France, killing at least 16 people with three more missing, officials say.
France claims to have carried out its first air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria following nearly three weeks of surveillance flights.
Presidential guard officers in Burkina Faso seize power in a coup, with more than 10 people reportedly killed as protests break out in the capital.
Three American men are being hailed as heroes for overpowering a heavily-armed gunman on a train in northern France.
Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says that the Greeks made a "brave choice" in voting to reject the terms of an international bailout.