Roma groups protested at France’s expulsion policy and threatened to take Paris to the European court Saturday, as another top EU official took aim at President Nicolas Sarkozy. In Bulgaria, a dozen Roma organisations delivered a joint letter,...

After his shock exit from Wimbledon, Roger Federer clearly needed something to cheer himself up. So it’s no wonder the 28-year-old sportsman decided to go on a luxury yacht holiday in France with wife Mirka Vavrinec and their twin girls Charlene...

Eleven people died in southern France after torrential rains triggered flash floods that overturned cars and sent residents scurrying to safety on rooftops, officials said Wednesday. Rescuers scrambled overnight to help hundreds of people trapped in...

The French press is sniffing cautiously but persistently around a story that some believe has potential to do enormous damage to President Nicolas Sarkozy. It is a complex tale linking arms sales to Pakistan with the secret funding of French politics....

Mali has freed four militants from jail weeks after al-Qaeda’s North African branch threatened to kill a French hostage if the men were not released. The authorities insisted they had not given into al-Qaeda’s demands, saying that the four...

Europe’s increasingly muscular brand of secularism has an unofficial capital: Strasbourg, France. Over the past decade, the quaint city of 273,000 near the German border — home to the European Parliament and other key international bodies —...

When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful area, the French public were horrified. Their revulsion increased with the news that many of the dead soldiers had been mutilated...

Gwen Le Berre doesn’t understand the ‘’electrometer'’ machine he keeps in his Normandy bedroom. He just knows it’s a piece of kit from the Church of Scientology, which he blames for his mother’s death. Four days...

One word was on the minds of Italians yesterday: blackmail. Could the claims emerging daily against Silvio Berlusconi leave him open to the kind of persuasion that makes holding political office impossible? Would he be tempted to cut a deal to suppress...

Napoleon massacred more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves and should be remembered as a genocidal dictator and inspiration for Hitler rather than a military genius and founder of modern France, a French historian said yesterday.