Pedestrians will rule the streets of Paris on New Year's Eve and into the early hours of 1 January under an ambitious "car-free city" scheme set up to celebrate the end of 2023. Under the city hall's "Paris Respire" project, the first, second, third and fourth arrondissements of the capital are already closed to most vehicles between 10am and 6pm one Sunday a month.On 31 December, the scheme will be rolled out through the night until 12:30am on New Year's Day.While revellers will take advantage
France will deploy more than 95,000 police and military personnel for New Year's Eve festivities amid a heightened terrorist threat that authorities say demands tighter controls.
The world's biggest spelling and grammar test will take place next month on Paris’s famed Champs-Elysées Avenue, which is to be transformed into a giant open-air classroom.
A French court has sentenced four men to between five and 15 years in jail for plotting an attack on Paris's emblematic Champs Elysées avenue. A fifth defendant walked free, having already served his…