35 h. ago AP PHOTOS: Tattoos, clay and bouncing hair bring the French Open to life

It’s the small details that bring the French Open to life — a ball smashing into the strings of Quentin Halys’ racket as he serves, red clay staining a ball boy’s hand, or the burst of dust as Andrey Rublev knocks clay from his shoes.

Culture

5 d. ago Inside Dawn French's quiet life after ditching £6.6m mansion

The actress sold her home in 2021 for £6.6million.

Economics

6 d. ago Dawn French's life in Cornwall's quietest village after leaving £6.6m mansion behind

Dawn French has been a fixture in Cornwall for almost two decades and has shared some delightful insights into her coastal life with husband Mark Bignell in recent years

Economics

7 d. ago Car ploughs into crowd celebrating PSG Champions League win in French city of Grenoble leaving four members of the same family injured as young woman fights for life

A young woman was said to be the worst injured and 'fighting for her life' after being hit first.

Sport

1 week ago DS 4 Review: Fancy French flair for fans of the finer things in life

Motoring writer Gareth Butterfield has spent a week in DS’s gorgeous DS 4 Pallas Hybrid

Politics

2 w. ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst

Corruption and greed have eroded morality in public life. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply“Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it,” Jean Jaurès, the French philosopher and Socialist party leader, told a group of high school students in 1903. “It is not yielding to the law of the triumphant lie as it passes, and not echoing, with our soul, our mouth and our hands, mindless applause and fanatical jeering.”When the first world war reared its ugly, pointless head, Jaurès refused to give in to mindless fanaticism and attempted to coordinate a Franco-German general strike to stop the rush to war. In 1914, he paid for those efforts with his life when a 29-year-old French nationalist shot him twice in the back.Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French

Cannes film festivalFoster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel AuteuilRebecca Zlotowski serves up a genial, preposterous psychological mystery caper: the tale of an American psychoanalyst in Paris, watchably played by Jodie Foster in elegant French, who suspects that a patient who reportedly committed suicide was actually murdered. Zlotowski is perhaps channelling Hitchcock or De Palma, or even late-period Woody Allen – or maybe Zlotowski has, like so many of us, fallen under the comedy spell of Only Murders in the Building on TV and fancied the idea of bringing its vibe to Paris and transforming the mood – slightly – into something more serious.Foster is classy shrink Lilian Steiner, stunned at the news that her client Paula Cohen-Solal (Virginie Efira) has taken her own life. She is also furiously confronted by Paula’s grieving widower Simon (Mathieu Amalric), who believes she bears some resp...

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2 w. ago Scarlett Johansson looks elegant in a strapless baby blue gown as she joins glamorous Eva Herzigova, Elsa Hosk and Toni Garrn at Cannes Film Festival's A Private Life premiere

The stars certainly captured attention as they were among the first stars to step out at the premiere of French film Vie privée (A Private Life), starring Jodie Foster.

Politics

2 w. ago Scarlett Johansson looks elegant in a strapless baby blue gown she joins glamorous Eva Herzigova, Elsa Hosk and Toni Garrn at Cannes Film Festival's A Private Life premiere

The stars certainly captured attention as they were among the first stars to step out at the premiere of French film Vie privée (A Private Life), starring Jodie Foster.

Politics

3 w. ago Insane moment jockey holds on for dear life as French rider clings onto TWO horses at once after falling off favourite during jump

The crowd were cheering on their favourites for success in the race, with the horses still grouped together as those watching on waiting in anticipation to see who would emerge as the front-runner.

Politics

3 w. ago French horse racing jockey 'hangs on for dear life' in incredible incident at Auteuil

The rider was left in a nightmare situation after being unseated from his mount

Politics

3 w. ago Fruit and vegetables you should be planting from June onwards

Expert gardeners tell you what you should be planting this summer.

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