French court delays Strauss-Kahn charge ruling
A French court on Wednesday pushed back a ruling on whether to drop aggravated pimping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief ...

Top editor at the French daily Le Monde dies
The top editor at France's leading daily newspaper has died suddenly of a heart attack. Erik Izraelewicz, 58, had led Le Monde for about two years, ...

France to recognize Palestinian state at UN
France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week. With the ...

France's Hollande meets steel firm chief amid spat
President Francois Hollande has met with the chief of ArcelorMittal after a minister in his government suggested that the steel giant should be ousted ...

Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion
Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...

OECD: Europe weighing on global economy
The global economy could easily slide back into recession if its major problems — like U.S. budget standoffs and Europe's lack of jobs — are left to ...

German doctor on trial over death of step-daughter
A 77-year-old German doctor has gone back on trial in France over the death of his 15-year-old stepdaughter, following a decades-long cross-border ...

Sarkozy's party fractures amid leadership dispute
France's main opposition party could split in two after one of the men vying to lead it pledged to break away unless a new vote is held for the ...

France Galop to hear Dettori case Dec. 4
French horse racing stewards will meet next Tuesday to decide whether to take further action against jockey Frankie Dettori over his positive drug ...

New chief of Sarkozy's dispute-racked party named
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party, now the main opposition force to France's governing Socialists, moved deeper into disarray on ...

French minister wants steel firm ArcelorMittal out
Many European countries with lagging economies are trying to draw in foreign investors. But in France, a Socialist minister says he wants to kick the ...

Carla Bruni backs gay marriage, but not feminism
France's former first lady Carla Bruni says she disagrees with her conservative husband Nicolas Sarkozy and supports a plan to allow gay marriage and ...
Bordeaux loses 1-0 at Montpellier in French league
Bordeaux missed the chance to go top of the French league after losing 1-0 at defending champion Montpellier on Sunday. It was leapfrogged by ...

France: Sarkozy's party battles to save itself
Parents struggle to explain it to their kids. Ambassadors struggle to explain it to their governments. The only thing that's clear is that French ...

France survives scare to edge Samoa 22-14
France survived a good scare from Samoa to clip out a 22-14 win on Saturday and achieve its first sweep of the autumn rugby tests in seven years.

Treetop tents, tear gas: French protest turns ugly
Protesters squatting in treetop tents and makeshift shelters are battling French riot police trying to expel them from the site of a planned airport ...

French tennis coach convicted of raping players
A former tennis coach in France was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison Friday for raping young students at his academy, ending a ...
French police, protesters clash at airport site
More than 500 riot police, some firing tear gas, are clashing with protesters squatting in a wooded area of western France to oppose the building of ...

France's Sarkozy questioned over campaign funds
He faces the possibility of charges on allegations he took advantage of an aging heiress to get envelopes stuffed with illegal cash for his ...