Mark Moogalian, a 51-year-old professor at the Sorbonne, was the first passenger to wrestle with Ayoub El-Khazzani.

It was just after 5.50pm on the high-speed Amsterdam to Paris train when a slightly-built young man emerged from a lavatory brandishing a Kalashnikov automatic rifle.

France has launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Reunion Island.

President Francois Hollande has resolved a spat with Russia over the future of two advanced warships Moscow ordered from France before its annexation of Crimea poisoned relations with the West.

Desperate nightly dash for a better life reaches fever pitch as Britain prepares more daunting fencing.

Twitter photos show support for a young woman who was beaten up by a gang of girls as she sunbathed in a park wearing a bikini.

Protests by French farmers and sailors, desperate migrants and traffic chaos is causing major disruptions on both sides of the English Channel.

An experienced New Zealand paraglider has died in a horror crash attempting a high-altitude launch in the French Alps.

French bathers have accused the Saudi royal family of commandeering a public Riviera beach for their own private use during a forthcoming visit.

Q&A with Nick Ferneyhough and Chrystelle Baran, founders of Baran de Bordeaux, about doing business in NZ.

Q&A with Guillaume Nicoli, founder of Ma Cherie, wholesaler and retailer of French pastries, about business in NZ.

Q&A with Thomas Dietz, founder of TOMeTTe, about starting a French food company in New Zealand.

Q&A with Nadine Plet, president of the French New Zealand Chamber of Commerce and Industry, about business in NZ.

To mark Bastille Day and 70 years of diplomatic relations between France and New Zealand, the French ambassador Florence Jeanblanc-Risler looks at the relationship between the two countries.

Its a classic rags to riches story that's almost too much of a cliché to be true, but an Israeli teenager with no experience strode down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week.

Q&A with Jean-Christophe Poizat, founder of French fine wine merchant Maison Vauron, about doing business in NZ.

Cruising along the Seine from Paris to Normandy is the perfect way to travel, finds Penny Lewis.

The cool thing about ridesharing on your travels isn't just the savings on cash - it's the people you meet, writes Ben Stanley.

In what a police source called a "macabre mise en scene", the unnamed man's head was found attached to a fence outside the factory.

Rainbow Warrior saboteurs carried out practice missions before bombing Greenpeace's flagship in Auckland 30 years ago, according to sources in France.

Just when you thought men's tennis had settled into a steady pattern under the absolute monarchy of Novak Djokovic, the unassuming Stan Wawrinka popped up.

Talk of a permanent memorial for former All Black Jerry Collins is something Porirua mayor Nick Leggett is open to - but only once the family has had time to grieve.

Family and friends have made it to Montpellier to be beside Jerry Collins' critically-injured baby daughter, including her aunt from Canada and extended Samoan rugby family.

The woman who died alongside All Black great Jerry Collins in a horror crash that left their baby daughter fighting for her life never planned to be a mum.

Little more than six months are left before France is supposed to steer the world to the most demanding and complex deal on climate change ever attempted.

France's national assembly has vowed a crusade on food waste in the country by passing a law that will stop supermarkets destroying unsold food.

Joanna Norris is chair of the New Zealand Media Freedom Committee and editor of the Press. The Canon Media Awards to be held on Friday celebrate media freedom.

Heidemarie Puetz visits a region where truffles have been cultivated since the early 19th century.

Playing rugby in France was "too testing" for former All Black Zac Guildford, who is returning to NZ just halfway through a four-year contract.