The dollar weakened significantly on Monday due to investor concerns about President Trump's potential interference with the Federal Reserv...

Paris is hosting a special guest for France's national holiday on Sunday—the Olympic flame. Just 12 days before the city hosts the Summer G...

The 25 passengers, who had applied for political asylum in France, were reportedly freed on Tuesday and five of them were taken into care o...

Under the truce deal between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar, a total of 50 hostages are to be exchanged for 150 Palestinian prisoners,...

The remanding in custody of a French policeman in the city of Marseille sparked new controversy Monday weeks after violent riots, with a ca...

The police arrested Sobhraj in September 2003 from a five-star hotel. In 1996, he had escaped from a prison in New Delhi after it looked li...

On June 6th, the most significant battle of WWII in Normandy, France was fought. Considering the action that turned the tide of the war tow...

Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of France before the revolution, was guillotined in Paris in October 1793 at the age of 37.

The militants, who swept into power last month as the United States withdrew its troops, banned women from most work when they last ruled t...

“Imports of odoriferous preparations such as room fresheners and car fresheners that don’t operate by burning is ‘free’,” the Directorate G...

Without naming China, the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said, "The international community's determination to combat terrorism ...

The French Foreign Minister, whose country has faced a number of terror attacks over the last few years, pitched for a "decisive action" ag...

A total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, with sizeable Christian community.

Swiss Reinsurance Co said Monday it transferred part of its US life insurance business to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc for 1.3 b...

Two French employees, who were taken hostage in Afghanistan two weeks ago, were freed on Saturday.

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt sent a radio message Sunday to all hostages still in the grips of FARC rebels, as she recovered in P...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy denies his role in negotiating sale of anti-tank missiles to Libya, says EADS.