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President Nicolas Sarkozy is blanketing France's top TV news shows in a prime-time interview as polls show him trailing the Socialist nominee before this spring's presidential election.
A top European anti-corruption body wants the U.S. to increase transparency of political funding through outside groups that donate millions to support candidates, warning that they could be used to skirt long-established disclosure rules.
French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company accused of supplying potentially faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women.
The language used in a purported message from al-Qaida's North Africa arm that threatens to kill European hostages if governments take military action to save them suggests it is an authentic warning, a top French counterterrorism official said Thursday.
France wants the European Union to stiffen its rules on authorizing medical devices amid a breast implant scandal involving a French company and affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide, the health minister said Thursday.
France and Britain escalated an unusual bout of sniping Friday, as Prime Minister David Cameron took a swipe at religious freedoms in France while the French finance minister criticized the U.K. economy.
Paris, in its latest bid to be an innovator of the City of Tomorrow, is launching an electric car-sharing program to cut air and noise pollution on the city's medieval cobblestone streets and beyond.
An attorney for Manuel Noriega says the former Panamanian strongman is to be extradited from France to his homeland on Sunday.
Europe and the United States don't agree on how to strike the right balance between protecting privacy rights and battling the terror threat, the head of France's data protection watchdog said Friday.
Syria's rising opposition has many voices, but one sticks out: That of President Bashar Assad's uncle, a former Syrian vice president and military strongman who many say has blood on his own hands.
In Libya, western Europe's powers finally got tough.
Four-and-a-half years ago, France got a leader dubbed the "hyperpresident" — a pro-American, free-market politician who flouted tradition and went jogging on his first day in office.
The resurgent French left, riding on popular anger at conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy and global financial markets, endorsed former Socialist Party chief Francois Hollande on Sunday as its candidate for next year's presidential elections.
Their early courtship was hardly discreet: President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni visited Disneyland Paris together, then jetted off to Jordan with cameras in tow. Weeks later, they were married.
French authorities say a fire in an abandoned building set for demolition has killed six suspected illegal immigrants.
For years, Muslims by the hundreds, dodging foot and vehicle traffic, have unfurled rugs on northern Paris sidewalks and put their foreheads to the ground outside two mosques for Friday prayers — for the simple reason that there's not enough space inside.
Libya's interim leaders held talks Friday with U.N. and other international officials to work out ways to stabilize the country and best use billions of dollars in unfrozen assets following the NATO-backed rebellion that ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
While uncertainty prevails in Libya, the breakthrough that brought rebel forces to the heart of Tripoli shows rumors of NATO's demise may have been premature.
France is the home of the baguette, that savory, crisp staple of a fabled gastronomy. But just try getting a fresh one in the evening, or on a holiday, or even in August, when many of the country's 33,000 bakeries are closed.
George Hincapie rode alongside Lance Armstrong on his record run of seven Tour de France victories — and is about to match a mark of his own at cycling's greatest race.
Battered by doping scandals for years, cycling is intensifying its fight against drug cheats yet again with the Tour de France to begin Saturday.
Libya's opposition leader said Thursday that rebels needed more weapons and funding, as China and Russia raised concerns over revelations that France had supplied arms to civilians fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
France sent weapons this month to Libyan civilians under siege by Moammar Gadhafi's forces, a military spokesman said Wednesday, making it the first NATO country to announce it has armed rebel fighters.
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, a pioneering French Egyptologist who prodded Gen. Gamal Abdel Nasser to help salvage Nubia's vaunted antiquities, has died. She was 97.
In the war in Libya, the French Rafale fighter jet has nearly done it all: no-fly zone enforcement, air-to-ground strikes, reconnaissance, overflight missions.
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