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.

Emmanuel Macron is being sworn in as France's President after last week's election victory.

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

President François Hollande casts his vote in Tulle, France, in the second round of France's presidential election.

France heads to the polls on Sunday to elect their new president.

Premier League club West Ham United are raided by tax fraud investigators, part of a wider investigation into fraud spanning other parts of England and France.

France Unbowed Political Advisor Sophie Rauszer discusses the French election.

Moments before France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen cast her vote at a polling station in Hénin-Beaumont in northern France, six topless Femen activists staged a protest nearby, wearing Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen masks and shouting "Marine, President" sarcastically.

People in France are voting in the first round of presidential elections amid tight security.

An emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Friday cast the divide over America's missile strikes on a Syrian government airbase into stark relief, with Britain and France supporting the U.S. action but Russia warning it off 'extremely serious' consequences.

Britain and France on Wednesday renewed their call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to go, after a suspected chemical weapons attack by Damascus killed scores of people in a rebel-held area.

EU powerhouses France and Germany warn Britain to expect no favours from Brussels once negotiations on the terms of Brexit finally get underway next week.