The spread between French and German benchmark bond yields widened, signaling investor unease about France's public finances.

In a divided nation struggling with polarised politics, high debt, and a ballooning deficit, the task before 73-year-old ...

Mayotte is France's poorest region and is nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - one witness said the damage wreaked by the cyclone looked like "the aftermath of a nuclear war".