Fiachra Gibbons

Social distancing and face masks were largely forgotten as thousands of French people danced and partied well into Monday in the first big blow out since the coronavirus lockdown

Wolfgat, whose mostly female staff have no formal training, opened just two years ago in a 130-year-old cottage and cave on the beach at Paternoster

Two government ministers said new rules will be tabled before the end of June to force YouTube and social media platforms to pull hateful posts.

More than 42 000 people have already signed a petition protesting the 'crazy, moronic and shameful decision'

Within minutes of the shooting at YouTube offices in California, social media was awash with conspiracy theories

As an actress since she was 17, Deneuve admitted that during her career she had been "a witness to indelicate situations" between men and women.

Silencio, David Lynch's new Paris nightclub-cum-salon-cum-laboratory of the weird, is certainly an unusual place to spend an evening.

Beryl Bainbridge, the eternal Booker prize bridesmaid, was last week snubbed for a sixth time when her novel failed at the penultimate hurdle for Britain's greatest literary prize, writes Fiachra Gibbons.

He has made a fortune by airing tacky domestic conflicts on primetime TV,and is now playing a villain in a movie opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme -but Jerry Springer has a serious side too. He spoke to Fiachra Gibbons in Cannes.

Rivers of blood have been spilt - figuratively at least - in a propaganda battle between Greek and Macedonian nationalists over who has the right to claim the all-conquering hero Alexander the Great as their own, writes Fiachra Gibbons in London.

Some find Melvin Burgess's new novel of adolescent discovery aimed at teenage boys upsetting, writes Fiachra Gibbons.

Montreal-based author Yann Martel has won the 000 Man Booker Prize in the most surreal of circumstances, seven days after the organisers mistakenly announced his victory on their website, writes Fiachra Gibbons.