The coin bearing the name of Sponsian was considered apocryphal and had been locked away in a museum cupboard.

Mass testing is taking place after more than 160 cases are linked to a bar in the capital.

The Israeli PM joins President Macron to commemorate a mass arrest of Jews in Nazi-occupied France.

France's centrist candidate wants firms to release encrypted messages between terror suspects.

The Aquarius, carrying 629 people rescued from the Mediterranean, is told to stay put.

President Ilham Aliyev vows to keep fighting in an upsurge of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

France's new president woos opposition Republicans with his choice of Edouard Philippe.

Ex-economy minister Emmanuel Macron says he will revolutionise French politics if elected president.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron resigns from the government ahead of an expected centrist bid for the presidency in next year's election.

President Francois Hollande threatens economy Minister Emmanuel Macron with the sack after a speech in which his ambitious rival came close to declaring he would run for president.