Police investigating the murder of a British man killed along with three other people in the French Alps have released an image of a male motorcyclist they would like to track down.

'It was an execution.' Questions remain about the deaths of two veteran French journalists - including how such an attack was carried out near a UN base.

By many measures, to be Interior Minister in France today is to have the country's toughest job.

The Greeks brought wine to Provence, but the Romans have left an incomparable mark on the landscape, finds Pamela Wade.

Barack Obama has spoken to France's President Francois Hollande as a row rages over claims that a US spy agency eavesdropped on millions of phone calls of French citizens.

France wants answers from the US after it was revealed the NSA swept up - and in some cases recorded - 70.3 million French phone calls and emails over a month.

Deborah Telford plunges into polishing up her command of French with practical lessons in a Provence village.

Anthony Peregrine sees the best of Nice, a magnet to the rich for centuries.

After his jaunt with royalty, Prime Minister John Key will return to business with a thud tonight.

This amazing GoPro cam footage captured some amazing scenes as it was placed upon an eagle flying through Mer de Glace glacier and Montenvers Railway on northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps.

In a televised address, French President Francois Hollande says he hasn't ruled out the "military option" against Syria.

An 84-year-old man has been killed near Paris after an elephant belonging to a local circus escaped from its pen and hit him with its trunk.

French and British investigators probing a quadruple murder in the French Alps say they are looking at a dispute over a multi-million-dollar family inheritance as a motive for the slayings.

An enormous hand-sculpted rock carving in France nearly six years in the making could be the largest work of Maori art in the Northern Hemisphere.

Judges have described Dominique Strauss-Kahn as "king of the party" and the "linchpin" of soirees with prostitutes that resembled "carnage on a pile of mattresses", in a damning indictment of the disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief.

Paris has launched a new kind of tourist guide: not a guide for tourists, but a guide to different types of tourists.

Two wheels is the ideal way to travel the back roads, writes Trish Murphy.

A train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed and crashed into a station outside Paris on the eve of a major holiday weekend.

Three stylish women, frequent visitors to France, share their favourite Parisian haunts.

Fire has ravaged a Qatari-owned 17th-century mansion in the heart of Paris.

When Francois Hollande became France's leader, it was with the insistence that he was a man of the people, who despised patriotic pomp and shunned the splendours of the Elysee Palace and its use as a political prop.

France's Government spies on its own citizens in the same way as the United States, it was claimed yesterday.

Although I spend lengthy periods every year living in a town of about 12,000 people in southern France I sometimes forget the two, sometimes three-hour lunch.