French president Emmanuel Macron said yesterday those behind an unprecedented wave of attacks against French prisons would be tracked down and punished after violence flared for a third night.

Bank of Ireland has failed to secure a summary judgment in a High Court action against it in the UK, where the bank has been accused of engaging in fraud, through one of its senior employees, to lend millions of pounds to an investor to buy a raft of properties as the global financial crash was underway.

Paris will launch a sweeping search of public swimming pools for hidden cameras and peepholes after a number of women said they had caught men spying on them as they undressed.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, American president Donald Trump&s special envoy, will travel to Paris today for talks with European allies on US efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.