France warns of mass disruption in airport strikes
France's main airports are asking airlines to cut their flight timetables in half ahead of three days of strikes by air traffic controllers that begin ...

Rafael Nadal drops from 4th to 5th in ATP rankings
Eight-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal drops from No. 4 to No. 5 in the ATP rankings this week, swapping places with David Ferrer, the man he ...

Nadal beats Ferrer for record 8th French Open win
If Rafael Nadal truly was going to be challenged, if his bid for an unprecedented eighth French Open championship would be slowed even a bit, this ...

Protesters with flares interrupt French Open final
A man who jumped onto the court with a fiery flare spurting white smoke briefly interrupted the French Open final Sunday between Rafael Nadal and ...

Olympic champion Riner alleges racism at Paris bar
The Buddha Bar has fired a waitress for improper behavior toward Olympic champion judoka Teddy Riner, who lashed out about alleged racism at the ...

Makarova, Vesnina win French Open women's doubles
Fourth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia won their first Grand Slam title together by defeating defending champions Sara Errani ...

Pooches, owners march for more dog-friendly Paris
Some Parisians want just a little bit more of their city to go to the dogs. At least 100 pooches — with owners in tow, holding leashes — marched near ...

Man faces manslaughter over Paris activist's death
Thousands of supporters marched in grief and anger Saturday to honor an anti-fascist activist who died after a brawl with far-right militants, as ...

Williams beats Sharapova for 2nd French Open title
Serena Williams knew, of course, that 11 years had passed since her only French Open championship. She also knew, of course, what happened a year ago ...

French president says eurozone crisis is over
French President Francois Hollande sought reassure Japanese business leaders Saturday that the eurozone debt crisis is over but acknowledged that ...

Nadal edges Djokovic 9-7 in 5th in French semis
His dramatic and delightful French Open semifinal was 4½ hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from the net to the ...
Correction: France-D-Day Anniversary story
In a story June 6 about the 69th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a U.S.

Skinheads questioned in deadly Paris brawl
For years they operated in the shadows, but militant extreme-right groups have become increasingly visible in France. Since the death of a university ...

Tough times fill Williams' French Open history
For a decade, the French Open has presented more problems for Serena Williams than any of the other Grand Slam tournaments. Her collection of 15 major ...

French ex-prime minister Pierre Mauroy dead at 84
Pierre Mauroy, who as France's prime minister in the early 1980s implemented radical social reforms that made life easier for French workers, has died ...

Algeria stalled 40 days into president's absence
Forty days after Algeria's president was hospitalized, the country is stuck in limbo with its normally predictable politics thrown into disarray.

Israeli power couple links politics with the press
He's a powerful Cabinet minister and a potential heir to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She's an influential anchor for Israel's state-run TV ...

France studies how to track arms for Syrian rebels
France's government is investigating high-tech methods to prevent terrorists from using any weapons that Western governments send to Syrian rebels, ...

11 years later, Williams back in French Open final
Done with a dominating performance in the French Open semifinals, Serena Williams climbed the stairs leading from the locker room to the players' ...

Study sheds light on origins of French winemaking
Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. A team of archaeologists led ...

Lofty art: Painting visible only from Eiffel Tower
Art is often seen as lofty — but perhaps none more than a new roof installation in Paris that's only visible from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

French activist killed in fight with skinheads
A group of skinheads beat a French far-left activist to death in the heart of Paris' shopping district, officials said Thursday, in an attack that ...

French Open semifinal showdown: Nadal vs Djokovic
Rafael Nadal groused last week that he was playing so badly he might soon be home fishing in Mallorca. Then came a transformation. Nadal stood at the ...

Hradecka, Cermak win French Open mixed doubles
Five years after teaming up, Frantisek Cermak and Lucie Hradecka won their first doubles title together at the French Open. The players from the Czech ...

5 things to watch in French Open men's semifinals
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will face each other in a French Open semifinal that feels like a final. Djokovic is trying to win his first ...