The violence that broke out more than a week ago in the immigrant-dominated suburbs of Paris has continued there and spread to other cities.
Here's some the latest news and some background from the BBC and other sources:
No halt to French urban violence (BBC)
Immigrant rioting flares in France for ninth night (NYT)
Some background pieces:
3 paths to a blended Europe - all flawed (IHT)
This story explores how France, Britain and Germany have all had problems in integrating Arab and North African immigrants.
France's disaffected Muslim businessmen
Some excerpts:
Yazid Sabeg is a rarity among France's business elite. He is North-African. And those two facts, he believes, are not unconnected.
"A lot of people don't like my face," says the 55-year-old industrialist.
Whether or not corporate France is "viscerally racist", as Mr Sabeg contends, it certainly lacks diversity.
The chief executive of CS, a big communications group, he is the only person of North African origin to head a leading French company. ...
Much of Evry consists of low-income housing estates that white people fled long ago.
In 2002 Abdel and Mohamed Djaiziri bought a small supermarket chain in one of bleakest of these estates, Les Pyramides - named after one of Paris' glitziest areas.
The Tunisian brothers then did a fateful thing. They turned the supermarket, affiliated to the Franprix chain, into a halal shop.
It was purely a business a decision, they insist: In a predominantly Muslim area, there was no point stocking pork or alcohol that would stay on the shelf.
"When a shopkeeper has a range of 15,000 products available to him, he will choose those that will sell," Abdel Djaiziri said in a recent interview.
But the mayor felt the move contributed to creating a ghetto by making life difficult for non-Muslims, and tried to get the store closed on health grounds. ...
Their experience - as well as Mr Sabeg's and the general scarcity of immigrant entrepreneurs in France - helps explain why some Muslim businessmen feel as marginalised as ghetto youths.
This story profiles Clichy-sour-Bois, ground zero of the riots.
French Muslims face job discrimination
An excerpt:
They may be French on paper - but they know that Ali and Rachid are much less likely to get ahead than Alain or Richard.
Racial discrimination is banned in France. But a quick look at the people working in any shop or office suggests the practice is widespread.
The impression is confirmed by official statistics.
Unemployment among people of French origin is 9.2%. Among those of foreign origin, the figure is 14% - even after adjusting for educational qualifications. ...
The pressure group SOS Racisme regularly highlights cases of employers discarding applicants with foreign names.
It says such discrimination is particularly rife in the retail and hospitality industries - but also for jobs involving no contact with the public.
"Some companies believe that to be responsible for marketing you must have roots in mainland France over several generations to understand the French consumer attitudes," according to a recent SOS Racisme report.