Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time'

Joan of Arc is a patron saint and military leader of France from the 15th century who led a demoralised French army to several key victories in the Hundred Years War with the English - before she was caught by her opponents and burned at the stake aged around 19.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, vowed on Wednesday that she would withdraw France from the military command of NATO and promote a rapprochement with Russia ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou survived his first major test in the National Assembly on Thursday ... motion put forward by hard-left party La France insoumise (France Unbowed).

After major investments in a bid to restore its lost national culinary prestige, France savoured victory Tuesday at the world's most prestigious international cooking competition, the Bocuse d'Or.

Dozens of demonstrators have attacked several foreign embassies, including those of Rwanda, France and Belgium, to protest the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into a major city in the country’s conflict-battered east.

Zack Albert profiles the long and colorful history Bowman Gray's history, hot dogs and the home of the hot modifieds.

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.

Britain's first teacherless AI classroom may be an "outlier", but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say.

As Maro Itoje gets out of a shiny car, all suited and booted, the voice of Ugo Monye declares that rugby "has never been as hot as it is right now".

Three riders from the Mapei-GB team raise their arms in triumph as they roll over the finish line, almost three minutes ahead of their closest rivals. Winner Johan Museeuw smiles and half-turns to his teammates Gianluca Bortolami and Andrea Tafi.

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.