PARIS: A driver who ran over a cyclist following an altercation in central Paris has been charged with murder in a case that shocked the capital.

PARIS: The Paralympics closed on Sunday with a giant music-fuelled party as chief Paris 2024 organiser Tony Estanguet said the Games and the Olympics had created a “historic summer.”

THE end of the widely hailed Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris yesterday will be greeted with pride and relief, as well as trepidation in a country in the throes of a deep political crisis.

PARIS: The French capital will pay tribute to Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her boyfriend, by naming a sports facility in her honour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Friday.

Plans by Paris mayor to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower have been condemned by designer Gustave Eiffel’s descendants and provoked a backlash from some Parisians.

PARIS: Medals are up for grabs in track cycling, swimming, table tennis and taekwondo when the action begins on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics, which opened in a colourful and hope-filled ceremony ahead of 11 days of competition.

PARIS: Paris on Sunday celebrated the 80th anniversary of its liberation from German troops in World War II with tributes, military marches and the hoisting of a flag at the Eiffel Tower.

PARIS: Organisers cleared the Olympic women's and men's triathlons to go ahead on Wednesday after the latest Seine river water tests showed lower levels of bacteria, ending days of uncertainty over whether the central Paris swim was viable after heavy rains.

PARIS: The men’s triathlon at the Paris Olympics will not go ahead as planned on Tuesday as pollution levels in the Seine remain too high, World Triathlon said in a statement, dealing a blow to organisers and leaving athletes facing more uncertainty.

PARIS: The first training session for triathletes at the Paris Olympics was scrapped today due to pollution in the River Seine, organisers said.

PARIS: The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and French President Emmanuel Macron rejected Tuesday a Palestinian demand that Israel be barred from the Paris Games over the war in Gaza.

Following the horse-trading to win the Games, came the French infighting over how to host them.

PARIS: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a long-awaited swim in the murky waters of the Seine on Wednesday amid joy and relief that the river is finally clean enough for outdoor Olympic swimming events later this month.

PARIS: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took the plunge today when she jumped into the River Seine in Paris to show the water was clean enough to host Olympic swimming events starting later this month.

PARIS: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo finally swam in the River Seine on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to try to convince doubters that its waters will be clean enough to hold Olympic swimming events.

PARIS: The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, swam in the murky waters of the Seine today to demonstrate the river is now clean enough for outdoor Olympic swimming events.

PARIS: French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera swam in the Seine on Saturday, raising hopes the river will be clean enough for competitors at the Paris Olympics which start in less than a fortnight.

PARIS: French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera swam in the Seine on Saturday, raising hopes the river will be clean enough for competitors at the Paris Olympics which start in less than a fortnight.

PARIS: The Paris 2024 marathon swimming event could be taking place just outside Paris should the River Seine not be suitable for bathing, organisers said on Friday.

PARIS: Water pollution levels in Paris’ River Seine were still much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics in which the capital’s landmark waterway is meant to be one of the swimming venues.