Men in Calais see their chance.
EPA/Etienne Laurent
David Cameron seems surprised that desperate people are trying to come to the UK. He must only read the British press.
Rom-com with a twist?
Curzon
The recently released Les Combattants is just the latest addition to a fast-expanding body of Hollywood-style rom-coms to come out of France.
‘The queen’s vagina’.
EPA/Etienne Laurent
France’s paradoxical relationship with provocative artworks has, again, come to the fore.
Mixed feelings.
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From the UK, to Canada, Australia and the states – our opinions about the military are usually wrong.
Is the oldest profession anything of the sort?
Bob the Lomond
What do Northern Ireland, France, Norway, Sweden and Iceland all have in common? They’ve already gone where Scotland is debating following.
Vive la Résistance.
EPA/Philippe Wojazer
When he interred four anti-racist and secularist icons in Paris’s Panthéon, François Hollande perhaps hoped some of their legacy would rub off on him.
The Abbott government has announced a plan to strip dual nationals involved in terrorism of their Australian citizenship.
AAP/Lukas Coch
A number of countries – including Canada, France, the US and the UK – allow for the deprivation of citizenship on national security grounds. But the scope of ministerial discretion varies significantly.
Aerial vue of the Paris-Saclay campus under construction.
Paris-Saclay
A huge project to bring together 19 institutions in France is to enter its first full academic year in September.
François Hollande and education minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (right), have come under fire.
Philippe Wojazer/Pool/EPA
A chorus of teachers, unions and French intellectuals have criticised reforms in lower secondary school.
Pulling out all the stops.
Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA
Cannes manages to project a level of gravitas and glitter that is the envy of its rivals the world over.
Stage-managed diplomacy in Haiti.
EPA/Alain Jocard
François Hollande can’t avoid the issue of reparations for slavery, but nor can he take control of it.
The French National Assembly, where the surveillance bill was passed.
Ian Langsdon/EPA
Legislation is passed in France that would see state surveillance powers scale towards those in the US and UK.
Burning to live.
STUDIOCANAL
Girlhood expresses the irrepressible potential within us all not to follow, not to echo, but to live a life defined by those moments in which we feel joy.
Banned from speaking, Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to photo-bomb daughter Marine at the FN’s May Day rally.
EPA/Yoan Valat
The founder of France’s far-right movement and his daughter, the current president, have had a spectacular and very public falling out.
A French field kitchen in use by the French troops within half a mile of the Turkish lines on the southern section of Gallipoli Peninsula, 1915.
Ernest Brooks/Flickr
As Australians commemorate the Anzacs who died at Gallipoli, spare a thought for the 10,000 French soldiers who also died on the Dardanelles in the first world war.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
EPA
Jean-Marie and Marine need to split up in a way that benefits them both.
Germany’s ban on teachers wearing the veil has been in and out of the courts for over a decade.
Uli Deck/EPA
Banning teachers from wearing the veil at school is incompatible with the German constitution.
Candidates for the local elections will stand in pairs.
Facebook
A radical new system is to bring parity to regional councils.
Missing: Senegalese Tirailleurs, 1940.
RaBoe/Wikipedia
One of the darkest moments of France’s colonial history has never been properly acknowledged. That could be about to change.
Mission accomplished? Protesters outside the European parliament in Brussels.
Greensefa
Europe was supposed to be big business for fracking companies, but so far not so good. So what’s going wrong?