13 December 2018 - Police union officials identified the suspected assailant as Frenchman Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a thick police record for crimes including armed robbery and monitored as a suspected religious radical.
12 December 2018 - A man who had been flagged as a possible extremist sprayed gunfire near the city of Strasbourg's famous Christmas market, killing three people, wounding 12 and sparking a massive manhunt.
11 December 2018 - France's interior minister says that two people have been killed and up to eight wounded in a shooting near Strasbourg's Christmas market.
3 December 2018 - Anti-government protesters gained new allies as French paramedics and students joined ongoing rallies while the prime minister met with political rivals in a bid to ease the anger following riots that rocked Paris.
13 November 2018 - Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron met Saturday at the Elysee Palace and discussed defense, trade and other issues.
1 October 2018 - His death was confirmed by the singer's producer, Gerard Drouout Productions, and the French Culture Ministry.
10 September 2018 - Authorities say police have arrested a man who rammed his car through two glass doors at Lyon's international airport and sped onto the runway.
6 August 2018 - French master chef Joel Robuchon has died at the age of 73.
16 July 2018 - France's 4-2 win over Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow marked the second time in 20 years that France has won the World Cup.
2 July 2018 - The federal prosecutor's office said that as well as the Belgian security services, the DGSI French internal intelligence service and German judicial authorities were instrumental "in avoiding a terror attack on French soil."
1 July 2018 - Disturbing video footage of the incident went viral in June 2018.
29 May 2018 - Mamoudou Gassama, from Mali, has been dubbed "Le Spiderman" for climbing five storeys of a Paris apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony.
