French club Lyon have been demoted to Ligue 2 because of the poor state of their finances. The club were provisionally demoted by the DNGC, the body which oversees the accounts of French professional football clubs, in November. Lyon officials including owner John Textor, met with the DNGC on Tuesday but failed to convince the...
This was a twist on the knives that have been plaguing Europe lately, but it sure is a ghastly development and still involves stabbing – random syringe attacks. There was a nationwide music festival, the Festival of Music 2025 (Fête de la Musique), throughout France this past Saturday. For 44 years, the organizers have hosted concerts...
The United Kingdom is circling the drain in so many ways, it’s hard to keep track…but we try. Between giving chunks of the kingdom away (like Chagos), screwing over the parts they’re still sort of keeping… It’s taken a week for the Independent to catch up with what we all realized straight away – “Spain...
Conditions for grape-pickers in France’s champagne business lie at the heart of a human trafficking trial that has opened in the eastern city of Reims. Three people – a woman from Kyrgyzstan, a man from Georgia and a Frenchman – are accused of exploiting more than 50 seasonal workers, mainly from west Africa. The workers...
Andrew Harding Reporting fromFrench coast, south of Calais A number of French gendarmes watched the boat being boarded but declined to intervene As the weather in the Channel clears, the French police are struggling to halt a potentially record-breaking surge of people from reaching the UK in small boats organised by a growing network of...
Sabalenka, a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, has lost both of the major finals she has reached this year. She lost to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final, where she was two-time defending champion, before the defeat by Gauff. She committed 70 unforced errors against Gauff, one of the best defenders on the women’s...
Paris Baguette Paris Baguette operates six stores in France and three outlets in the UK Head into the basement of any bustling mall in Singapore and the chances are you will smell the sweetness of fresh, buttery baked goods. Long lines of people swarm the counters of Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Singaporean bakeries – tray...
Getty Images Bill Pallot was considered the top scholar of French 18th Century chairs Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French royals such as Marie Antoinette. Georges “Bill” Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars as well as longer suspended...
In BBC Sport’s weekly snapshot of the tennis world, Jonathan Jurejko reviews a fun French Open and looks ahead to the grass-court season. Read full article at source...
Alcaraz emulated his childhood hero Rafael Nadal – a record 14-time champion at Roland Garros – by winning his fifth major at the exact same age of 22 years, one month and three days. Sinner, meanwhile, is the youngest man to reach three consecutive Grand Slam singles finals since 14-time major winner Pete Sampras in...
With an opening game lasting 12 minutes, it felt inevitable that the final between the two best players in the world would be a marathon. In the end, Alcaraz and Sinner put everything on the line for five hours and 29 minutes – the longest French Open final in history. Just as the fifth set...
Sinner was aiming for a third successive Grand Slam triumph, having won the US Open at the end of last year and then defended his Australian Open title in January. The 23-year-old’s level over the past fortnight – he arrived in the final having not dropped a set – was even more impressive considering he...
The world number two had never previously won a match after losing the opening two sets. Alcaraz is the first man to win a Grand Slam title after saving match point since Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in the 2019 Wimbledon final. Sinner, who was bidding for his maiden Roland Garros triumph, was denied his...
Cherki is only the latest talent fresh off the Lyon production line, but may be the best yet. He joined Lyon at the age of seven from AS Saint-Priest and, aged 16 years and 140 days, Cherki became the youngest goalscorer in the Ligue 1 side’s history in a French Cup tie back in January...
Following in the footsteps of Rafael Nadal as the second Spaniard to reach five major men’s singles finals, Alcaraz could emulate his childhood hero by winning his fifth major at the exact same age: 22 years, one month and three days. The two-time Wimbledon champion has taken just 82 matches to reach 70 wins at...