The French government will begin closed-door talks with lawmakers this week in a bid to salvage a budget from a bitter, slow-moving parliamentary debate that risks toppling Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

Cement group Lafarge goes on trial in France Tuesday, accused of paying the Islamic State group and other jihadists protection money to build its business in war-torn Syria.In a similar case in the United States,

France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.

Senators voted 327-0 in favor of the bill, which states that "any non-consensual sexual act constitutes sexual assault."

The robbers used explosives to gain entry to a precious-metal company in Lyon, French officials said. The police recovered the items.

The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.