Kim Willsher

As thunderstorms raged in the area last week, the symbolism was potent: the picket-line bonfire hissed and went out.

If Francois Hollande becomes president of France, it will be a job he has worked for and hankered after for most of his adult life.

French social media users have been warned not to "bugger" the country’s election by talking about exit poll results before voting is officially over.

Damaging new claims have emerged about the funding of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign and his links with slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Capital trials new electric car-sharing scheme — and hopes to have 5 000 vehicles on the roads by 2013.

An earthquake, hurricanes, cholera, political crises — it seemed Haiti’s woes could not get worse.

Armed robbers have stolen four priceless works of art in a brazen daylight raid on a French museum, writes Kim Willsher.