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Beckham walks off in tears after last home game
David Beckham hugged his teammates with tears in his eyes, then walked off the pitch to a standing ovation — for the last time in front of a home ...
French president signs gay marriage into law
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption ...
Blatter: Not rational to play WCup in Qatar summer
Playing the 2022 World Cup in the searing summer heat of Qatar is "not rational and reasonable," FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in a newspaper ...
Poll shows favorable views of EU in sharp decline
Positive views of the European Union by its citizens are near all-time lows. And no EU country is plunging faster into the abyss of gloom than France.
Correction: Italy's Race Problem story
In a May 1 story about racism in Italy, datelined Rome, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that a current French minister is from the French ...
Italy race problems seen with black gov't minister
It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes.
Lonely year for French president at time of crisis
The sounds of raucous protest echo in the Presidential Palace, unemployment is rising to levels not seen in over a decade, and his country's economy ...
Ex-French president top gift giver to Obama family
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in ...
China, France vow to promote 'multipolar' world
China's President Xi Jinping and France's President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower Thursday as the ...
French protest against gay marriage turns violent
France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge ...
Blackstone founder creates $300M China scholarship
A U.S. private equity tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the ...
Probe opens of alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy
Paris prosecutors on Friday began investigating whether the winning presidential campaign of former President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 may have ...
France forces ministers to show financial records
Tax Day generally passes unnoticed in France but this year a major tax scandal involving a top member of government has made April 15 a day of ...
Scandal of disgraced French taxman widens
He feels hounded and, like a marked man, says he changes locations every few days. Less than a month ago, Jerome Cahuzac, France's disgraced former ...
France names new spymaster
President Francois Hollande has appointed French ambassador to Afghanistan Bernard Bajolet as the new head of France's main spy agency.
Hollande pledges clean sweep amid corruption probe
For a French president who came to power on a promise of "irreproachability," naming a lying tax-dodger to be his chief tax collector was probably not ...
France's Sarkozy: Claim against him is unfounded
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy says an investigation into his campaign finances is unjust and unfounded, but he's confident "the truth will ...
Protesters end siege of Libyan PM's office
About 200 militiamen and protesters demanding the resignation of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan have ended their day-long siege of his office, a ...
Sarkozy lawyer calls charges 'scandalous'
A lawyer for Nicolas Sarkozy slammed an investigation into the campaign finances of former French president, saying he is being treated "scandalously.
France's Sarkozy officially being investigated
A judge on Thursday filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a campaign finance case, formally placing him under ...
French minister resigns in face of tax-fraud probe
France's budget minister, ensnared in a ballooning scandal over suspected tax fraud and money laundering, on Tuesday became the first resignation in ...
Top French lawyer's body found washed up on beach
Police have discovered the body of one of France's most prominent lawyers washed up on a beach near his home in Brittany. The Vannes public ...