This year was France’s hottest since the start of the 20th century.
Laurence Baptiste-Salomon takes us to the MacVal exhibition centre to see a new collection devoted to the French summer holidays.
Is Hosni Mubarak's trial a good idea? What's on Silvio Berlusconi's mind? Why are the French seeing more UFOs? ?
Every summer for the last ten years, the authorities have shut down the highway along the River Seine in the centre of Paris, and turned it into a beach.
President Nicolas Sarkozy promised a billion euros of aid to French farmers struggling with drought caused by the hottest spring since 1900.
Serious traffic jams are forecast for this weekend as a second wave of French holidaymakers hits the roads.
