PARIS/BERLIN/ROME, June 20 (Reuters) - A punishing heatwave sweeping across much of Europe prompted emergency meetings in France, nationwide warnings in Germany and strains on tourists and residents in Italy,

That is a question that very few observers of the tournament are asking, namely because it has already happened twice. France quite famously won its first World Cup in 1998 on home soil, then pulled off the feat again in 2018 led by a teenage forward named Kylian Mbappe.

France prove too skilful for England in the teams' non-Test summer warm-up in Vannes, easing away to a comfortable victory.

Marcus Smith has been included at fullback while George Ford will captain the side from fly-half. While it won't be a complete Test debut if he comes on, keep an eye out for centre Benhard Janse van Rensburg, who can't win a full international cap with England until they face Fiji this summer, having been born in South Africa.

D-Day commemorations in Normandy are usually centered on liberation, democratic duty and the memory of Allied soldiers who died on French beaches. That history made this year’s planned presence of U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump is in France this week for a G7 summit. He'll talk about the agreement reached to end the war with Iran with allies he's berated for refusing to join the U.S-Israeli-led conflict.

Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who co-founded video game publisher Ubisoft, has died after his private aircraft crashed on its final approach to La Baule-Escoublac aerodrome in western France on June 19,

The U.S. envoy to Paris has emerged as the embodiment of combative diplomacy in the age of President Trump, riling the French establishment notably with his accusations of antisemitism.