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The move follows big donations from Louis Vuitton, Kering and L'Oreal, bringing the total to more than $735 million.

The iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris is ablaze as thousands of bystanders watch the 850-year-old landmark burn.

The blaze broke out in the cathedral on Monday afternoon, a Paris fire department confirmed, adding that a major operation to tackle the fire is underway.

Chris Brown and two members of his team have been arrested by French police after a woman claims she was raped by the singer in a hotel.

Paris was burning.

The three Americans who foiled the Thalys train terror attack in France in 2015 have returned to Paris where the Clint Eastwood film about their heroics opened Wednesday.

A French policeman shot three people dead on a street near Paris in an apparent domestic dispute, before killing himself, media reports say.

One of the five suspects was under government surveillance for radicalism, Interior Minister Gerrard Collomb said.

French police say a young girl was killed and several people were injured when a driver slammed his car into the sidewalk cafe of a pizza restaurant in a small town east of Paris.

Paris and Los Angeles are set to stage the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games - provided they can agree which should go first, as both want to host in 2024.

Police have shot and injured a man who attacked officers with a hammer near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, injuring one of them. The attacker was also armed with two knives, according to French media.

The attack raised questions over how yet another Islamist extremist known to police was able to bring terror to the heart of the French capital.

At least one police officer has been killed and another one injured in a shooting incident in central Paris, Reuters report, citing police sources. The suspected attacker was also killed, reports say.

A police source told the news agency that the man was on a police watch list for radical Islamic activity.

THE cockpit voice recorder of the crashed EgyptAir MS804 suggests attempts were made to put out a fire on board, investigation committee sources have indicated.

THE memory chips of EgyptAir 804’s black box voice recorder are intact and investigators should be able to access it, a committee probing the plane disaster said on Saturday.

THREE people are dead after a man attacked and stabbed a policeman and held his wife and young son hostage.

An EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, French President Francois Hollande confirmed.