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A man walks by a closed RER gate during a strike of Paris public transports operator RATP employees over French government's plan to overhaul the country's retirement system, in Paris, on December 5, 2019 as part of a national strike.

French government does not give in to strikers, strikes to continue

Saad Hariri, Lebanon's Prime Minister, announced his resignation on October 29, 2019

Lebanon asks France and other allies for financial help

French president Emmanuel Macron offered China's Xi Jinping a bottle of Romanée-Conti 1978 on a recent visit to Beijing, valued at several thousand euros.

FRANCE - Alcohol

People make a living out of wine, but it's also killing them: welcome to the French paradox

Former leader of the Modem party François Bayrou inculpé ce vendredi 6 décembre pour «complicité de détournement de fonds publics ».

FRANCE - POLITICS

French centrist leader Francois Bayrou charged over public funds misuse, but says he'll stay put

The US military base in Pensacola in Florida with USS John F. Kennedy in the foreground.

Military student shoots dead three, wounds eight at US base in Florida

Polar bears in Murmansk region, Russia

Russia - Climate change

Melting Arctic ice sees 56 hungry polar bears gather near a Russian village

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg attends a news conference, before a climate change protest march, as COP25 climate summit is held in Madrid, Spain, December 6, 2019.

Teen activist Greta Thunberg mobbed on arrival at Madrid climate summit

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In 'Made in Bangladesh', women textile workers in Bangladesh rise up against their working conditions

'Made in Bangladesh': exploited women factory workers fight back

Crowds congratulate police officers after they killed the four suspects. 6 December 2019.

India - Sexual violence

Celebrations and outrage in India as police kill rape-murder suspects

Auschwitz main camp.

Merkel visits Auschwitz, pledges €60 million to preserve site

Sona Jobarteh resettled in The Gambia in 2014 to focus on her cultural Academy

World Music Matters

Sona Jobarteh changes the tradition of kora playing to make sure it survives

Toy aisle, with blue toys for boys on the left and pink toys for girls on the right

Unisex toy store in Strasbourg challenges pink/blue divide

French writer and 1957 literature Nobel prize laureate Albert Camus, reading a newspaper in Paris in 1953.

France - Literature

Was French writer Albert Camus killed by the KGB?

Spotlight on France episode 25

Spotlight on France

Podcast: France's alcohol dilemma, gender-neutral toys and the day secularism became law

Przewalski or Takhi horses on the Causse Méjean plateau in the southern Cevennes region in France. Here stallion Lou Ravi with the distinctive raised mane and stripes across its legs.

Wildlife Conservation

Wild Przewalski horses: a journey from France to Mongolia

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