5 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: My friends in France say their country's ban on smoking in public will be ignored with a Gallic shrug. Will we be as defiant when it happens here?

Can this really be la belle France, which gave us such classic images as the young Brigitte Bardot smoking a cigar and Audrey Hepburn holding a cigarette holder as long as a magician's wand?

Politics

6 d. ago Voices: I’m gay – I don’t want to be surrounded by children on holiday

As France is told that their adult-only hotels and restaurants are ‘violence against children’, Gary Nunn says that’s another country off his bucket-and-spade list

Politics

6 d. ago The country that made smoking sexy is breaking up with cigarettes

After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet

Politics

6 d. ago Lighting up on a French beach will cost more than £100 under national smoking ban

But the ban does not cover e-cigarettes, and smoking on cafe terraces will still be permitted

Economics

6 d. ago France to ban smoking in public places including at beaches and parks

The ban follows similar measures across an increasingly smoking-averse Europe

Politics

7 d. ago France to ban common object in public places from July 1 with hefty fines

The new rule could catch people out if they're not aware before heading to the country this summer

Politics

7 d. ago Give them the sack! Lynx's ad for 'lower body spray' shows men sniffing each other's crotches as baffled Brits ask 'who came up with this?'

The ad, promoting the French brand's new Lower Body Spray, shows a young basketball player dousing his crotch area with the spray before leaping mid-air to score.

Politics

1 week ago A basketball player was sidelined for her headscarf. France may now ban them in all sports

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because rules in several disciplines ban uniforms and other clothing carrying a religious or political significance

Sport

2 w. ago France looks to ban children from wearing Muslim headscarf as government tackles 'political Islamism'

The ban proposed would forbid 'minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public spaces,' It added the hijab 'seriously undermines gender equality.'

Politics

2 w. ago American basketball player could face firing squad in Indonesia after allegedly trying to smuggle cannabis candy

Police raided the former college basketball star’s apartment after package from Thailand addressed to him was flagged at airport

Sport

3 w. ago How Albania's 6ft 7in former basketball player Prime Minister towered over Keir Starmer on his day of humiliation as his long

Edi Rama, a former professional basketball player who won a fourth term as PM on Sunday, left his British counterpart red-faced over his latest attempt at a migrant crackdown.

Politics