Macron orders probe into France’s role in Rwanda genocide

China congratulates France's centrist politician Emmanuel Macron on his presidential election victory.

Emmanuel Macron becomes France's youngest ever president on Sunday, taking over from socialist Francois Hollande in a solemn ceremony.

France's former President François Hollande on Sunday said that "it was an honour" to lead France, and that he was leaving the country "in a far better state" than how he found it when Nicolas Sarkozy left office in 2012.

President helps Emmanuelle Assmann to the front row for the photograph.

President Emmanuel Macron's "La République En Marche" party is having its first teething problems, as it transitions from a grassroots movement to France's most powerful political organisation.

"I am not asking for la bella vita, just a little room and some dignity." The words of homeless pizza chef Moncef in an open letter to Emmanuel Macron published in Libération - one of several papers calling on the government to take action to end homelessness.

French President Emmanuel Macron met with a Malian migrant who scaled the facade of a four-storey building in the north of capital to save a child hanging from a ledge.

Yellow Vest movement: Can the French president quell the nation's anger?

Macron's G7: The French President's team-building exercise

Emmanuel Macron's allegation the alliance is brain-dead has raised more questions about the French leader's own state of mind than about NATO. DW's Teri Schultz looks at the aftermath of the Macron blast.

French President Macron visits troops stationed in Ivory Coast

As France enters the "Green Zone" lower risk state against COVID-19 on Monday, Emmanuel Macron vows to prop up the economy along with the rest of Europe. France has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus.