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The Great Debate gets under way Wednesday, led off with a grand question: "For you, what does it mean to be French?"
An exiled Iranian opposition group called on the U.N. nuclear agency Tuesday to waste no time in examining a hidden site near Tehran that it claims is used to help build nuclear detonators.
Unsolved for 44 years, a case into the disappearance of a prominent Moroccan exile kidnapped off a Paris sidewalk has resurfaced — and now is posing uncomfortable questions for France's leadership.
Pirates off of Somalia's coast are becoming increasingly sophisticated and even an international naval force has done little to combat the scourge off the Horn of Africa, the Somali police chief said Wednesday.
French culture and American convenience will come together in December — thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to hang its shingle in the shadow of the Louvre.
It was a passionate but hidden love. The president of the French Republic and the Princess of Cardiff had no choice.
Hijrat Hotak's parents sold the family home in Afghanistan, paying a smuggler $15,000 (euro10,200.61) to help buy a bright future in Britain for their 15-year-old son.
The name Tiffany is synonymous with the finest of jewelry and a visit to an exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum devoted to Louis Comfort Tiffany is like standing inside a jewel box — without a jewel in sight.
It should have been a perfect day for Vincent Petit, finishing up an afternoon gallop on a wide expanse of beach along a pastel-colored bay. Instead, he and his mount were sucked into a hole of noxious black sludge.
Rising casualties in Afghanistan are raising doubts among U.S. allies about the conduct of the war, forcing some governments to defend publicly their commitments and foreshadowing possible long-term trouble for the U.S. effort to bring in more resources to defeat the Taliban.
France's foreign minister says a French academic held in an Iranian prison is in good health but worried.
A leftist candidate backed by an array of political parties successfully staved off his far-right opponent in a mayoral race Sunday that the National Front had hope would start its comeback.
President Nicolas Sarkozy is a big fan of the United States and makes no secret of his craving for the limelight. Enter Barack Obama, the perfect guest.
Third-year student Sara Jose is no slacker, but the Sorbonne University semester is almost over, final exams are bearing down and she has yet to attend some of her classes.
President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage Friday on a Riviera beach to soldiers from French colonies who 65 years ago landed in southern France to help defeat the Nazis in what is known as the "forgotten D-Day."
Nearly two years after a national election famous for its intense rivalry between Nicolas Sarkozy on the right and Segolene Royal on the left, the feud is back in the news and getting nastier.
Vassily Kandinsky peers out from a giant photo over the vast hall, welcoming visitors with an impassive gaze to the largest retrospective in two decades years of this nomadic Russian painter's vibrant, ecstatic and groundbreaking art
It wasn't yet 8 a.m. when police knocked on Monique Pouille's door, searched her home and took her away — all because she recharged cell phones for illegal migrants.
A spot of Calvados, the apple brandy, in the bottle to help baby sleep. Champagne for all at the family fete. And wine anytime, well, because we're French.
The father of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas-allied militants more than two years ago said he received assurances in a meeting Tuesday with President Nicolas Sarkozy that his son is alive.
She's out of the maternity ward and into a Cabinet meeting, dressed in elegant black and stiletto heels — five days after giving birth at age 43. Justice Minister Rachida Dati, single and guarding the daddy's name like a state secret, doesn't stop surprising the French.
Early in the New Year, advertising will begin to disappear on France's public television networks, the start of a major shake-up ordered by President Nicolas Sarkozy that critics say will give him virtual control of the airwaves.
She knew she risked arrest, and yet she made the trip. Sure enough, police picked her up at the airport.
Where is Europe's Barack Obama? Not only are droves of Europeans hoping for a victory by the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, many are asking when France, Germany or Britain will get a chance to cast a ballot for a leader from their own burgeoning minorities.
Nations in Europe's single-currency zone agreed Sunday to temporarily guarantee bank refinancing and pledged to prevent banks failing as part of a raft of emergency measures designed to get credit flowing again.
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