Behind the images.

WHIF uses credited real photographs and clearly labelled AI-generated illustrations.

Archive photographs are identified by their original date and context. They do not document later events. Sources and reuse licenses appear below and alongside each photograph.

Catherine Ringer, the singular voice of Les Rita Mitsouko, dies at 68

Archive photograph: Catherine Ringer at the Brussels Summer Festival, 12 August 2012. · Photo: Eddy BERTHIER / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0

Kim Kardashian receives symbolic €1 damages in Paris robbery case

Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala, 4 May 2026. Archive photograph, cropped in the page layout. · Photo: SWinxy / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Macron and Carney put Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon at the centre of Atlantic diplomacy

Emmanuel Macron in Ljubljana, 21 October 2025. Archive photograph; the image is not from the Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon meeting. · Photo: Nebojša Tejić / STA / Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain Mark

Pope Leo XIV’s France visit will mix pilgrimage, technology and peace

Pope Leo XIV receives the Golden Key of Madrid, 7 June 2026. Archive photograph; the image is not from the forthcoming France visit. Display cropping only. · Photo: Diario de Madrid / Ayuntamiento de Madrid / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

What the Al-Khelaifi inquiry means, and what it does not

Archive photograph · Nasser Al-Khelaifi, at far right, during the FIFA Club World Cup final post-match ceremony in New Jersey on 13 July 2025. The photograph predates and does not document the current inquiry. Original image used without modification. · Photo: Daniel Torok / The White House / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain, U.S. federal government work

Sophie Adenot returns to Europe after a record 237 days in space

Sophie Adenot is helped from the Crew-12 capsule aboard the recovery ship SHANNON after splashdown in the Pacific on 8 October 2026. Resized for publication. · Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain, U.S. federal government work

Glucksmann wins the centre-left primary, but unity is still unfinished

Raphaël Glucksmann in an official European Parliament portrait, July 2024. Archive photograph, resized for publication; no other modification. · Photo: European Union 2024, European Parliament / Wikimedia Commons · European Parliament multimedia reuse terms, attribution required

Céline Dion closes the first chapter of her Paris comeback

Céline Dion performing at the Plenitude Arena, Paris, 2 October 2026. Photograph from the same residency, not the 17 October finale. Cropped and resized for publication. · Photo: Dionheart / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0

Macron keeps Laurent Nuñez in office and demands a policing reset

Archive photograph: Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a bilateral meeting during the G7 in Évian-les-Bains, 15 June 2026. This image does not depict the October crisis meeting or Laurent Nuñez. Resized for publication; no other edit. · Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / Presidency of Brazil / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Le Pen opens her campaign with an oil policy reversal

Archive photograph · Marine Le Pen at the first Patriots' Grand Assembly in Budapest on 23 March 2026. Cropped to a 16:9 frame; no other modifications. The image does not depict the Orléans campaign launch. · Photo: Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Teddy Riner enters France's 2027 presidential race

Archive photograph: Teddy Riner competing at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photo by Martin Hesketh, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. The source file is dated 29 March 2016. Cropped to 16:9 by WHIF. This is not a photograph of the 2026 campaign launch. · Photo: Martin Hesketh / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

AI-generated illustrations

Images generated with AI for WHIF carry the label “AI generated”. They illustrate each topic and are not documentary photographs, evidence of reported events, or verified depictions of actual venues, facilities or people. Each article has its own distinct image.