Limoges

A total of 79 garden gnomes snatched by a so-called gnome-liberation group were discovered on Wednesday along the banks of a stream in France’s central Limousin region, police said. The gnomes were hidden in underbrush with a banner that read "Gnome mistreated, gnome liberated", police said.

A judge has taken legal action against Cogema, a state-run nuclear fuels processor, for allegedly polluting streams and rivers in central France.