Angelique Chrisafis

angelique chrisafis at the stade de france Yseult performs My Way at the Stade de France as a fireworks display lights up the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Marie-Amélie Le Fur hopes Paris Paralympics can be a springboard to improve accessibility to sport for disabled people in France

When the athlete Marie-Amélie Le Fur was hit by a car while riding her scooter and had her left leg amputated beneath the knee aged 15, her swift return to the running track saved her mental health and changed her life.

France’s best-loved Paralympian tells Angelique Chrisafis of his extraordinary journey, how sport saved his life and a ‘rendezvous with destiny’ in Paris

Tuesday’s sinking underlines how security around Calais has led to dinghies launching further along the coast – and taking bigger risks at sea

A French woman whose husband allegedly drugged her and invited more than 80 men to rape her at her home for almost a decade has told a court her world collapsed when police told her of the alleged crimes.

Gisèle Pélicot says ‘police saved my life’ when they investigated her husband, who is accused of drugging her

He calmly but firmly negotiated the UK's departure from the EU after years of British squabbling over Brexit, and he prefers consensus to political punch-ups.

A councillor at 22, now country’s oldest premier in modern history, the former Brexit negotiator must win over a divided parliament

Fifty men are on trial for allegedly taking part in the rape and abuse