England kick off their summer schedule with a warm up clash with France on Friday. The game will not be an official Test match and will be contested between two "XV" teams. It comes before both sides kick off their Nations Championship campaigns,

Landon Donovan said Les Bleus were approaching the game in an "arrogant" and "casual" manner. Thierry Henry did not agree.

However, Giroud is not merely jumping on the bandwagon following Ayyoub Bouaddi's impressive World Cup debut for Morocco against Brazil last week. The pair are club team mates at Lille and Giroud has personally witnessed Bouaddi's desire to get better day in, day out.

France wants to play a role in talks dealing with Iran’s nuclear programme and will not approve the lifting of UN sanctions unless it is satisfied by the terms of a final accord, its foreign minister said on Friday.

Mathieu van der Poel returned to racing on Wednesday at the Tour de Suisse. That appearance is mainly about building towards the Tour de France. We didn't yet see him at the front of the race. What does that mean heading into the Tour de France?

Western Europe’s heat wave is forecast to intensify this weekend, putting France on track for record temperatures and testing power grids as demand for air conditioning surges.

By Leo Marchandon PARIS, June 16 (Reuters) - France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government bodies and critical operators to shift away from older systems.

More than half of France's population were dealing with scorching temperatures on Friday, according to AFP's calculations, with hundreds of schools adapting their timetables to keep students out of boiling classrooms.