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Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier started out his French exile living large on the Riviera: He drove a Ferrari, went on couture shopping sprees and lived in a gated villa protected by guards with assault rifles.
The global aircraft industry will recover faster than expected, according to European manufacturer Airbus, which on Monday predicted about $3.2 trillion (euro2.4 trillion) in new passenger and freighter planes will be needed over the next 20 years.
A French court convicted Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics in Texas of manslaughter on Monday for setting off a chain of events that sent a supersonic Concorde crashing into a hotel outside Paris a decade ago, killing 113 people and marking the beginning of the sleek jet's demise.
French workers ended their strikes at all oil refineries and at strategic fuel terminals following weeks of protests over President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, unions and French officials said Friday.
A retired French schoolteacher went on trial Thursday on accusations that she attacked a Middle Eastern woman in a Paris shop because the woman wore a face-covering Muslim veil.
Many in France see the country as open to the world and a champion of human rights, a nation bound by liberty, equality and brotherhood.
At age 8, Abel Bot is starting school a bit late. The past few weeks have been a crash course in how to be a schoolboy: how to hold a pencil, to raise a hand in class, to simply sit still.
It's a thistle-tangled field behind a hedge of blackberries, with little to catch the eye but three surreal staircases that rise out of the parched grass and lead to nowhere.
Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consumer market: Pitfalls may await, and not only in the form of complaints from the far-right.
France's crackdown on Gypsies, which has been criticized by the Vatican and the United Nations, is now exposing cracks in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.
Engineers in France have started work to drain an immense lake that has built up under an Alpine glacier on Mont Blanc, an attempt to prevent a repeat of a flood that killed 175 people more than 100 years ago.
When President Nicolas Sarkozy returns from his Riviera beach vacation this week, it will be a swift return to reality: He will have to answer to criticism about France's crackdown on Gypsies, and to street protesters over plans to raise the retirement age.
More than 100 Gypsies, or Roma, were put on a charter flight to their native Romania on Friday, the second day in a row that France has expelled Roma in a much-criticized government crackdown.
The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the "Mona Lisa." French researchers studied seven of the Louvre Museum's Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the "Mona Lisa," to analyze the master's use of successive ultrathin layers of paint and glaze - a technique that gave his works their dreamy quality.
The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the "Mona Lisa."
France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils Tuesday, part of a determined effort to define and protect French values that has disconcerted many in the country's large Muslim community.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied a report that his 2007 election campaign received euro150,000 ($188,000) in secret cash donations from the country's richest woman, saying Tuesday the allegations were an effort to smear him.
The former trader accused of nearly toppling France's Societe Generale argued in court Wednesday that he didn't invent the tricks that allowed him to gamble tens of billions of euros (dollars) of the bank's money, insisting that such practices were tolerated by management.
It's France's newest architectural wonder, and it looks something like an enormous white floppy sun hat. Or a giant swimming manta ray, or maybe an alien spacecraft.
Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha, who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvaged scraps of paper, has died in Paris. He was 81.
The Louvre's ceilings already abound with decorative paintings: There are plenty of frolicking maidens, epic battles and racing chariots, not to mention cherubs holding cornucopias.
A judge has filed preliminary homicide charges against a suspected member of Basque separatist group ETA who was arrested after a shootout that killed a French police officer, the Paris prosecutor's office said Sunday.
The Basque separatist group ETA was blamed Wednesday for the shooting death of a French policeman outside Paris, as authorities interrogated one suspect and hunted for at least five other assailants who fled the scene.
France's fourth-quarter unemployment rate jumped to the highest level in a decade — 10 percent — an eye-catching figure that is likely to weigh on voters ahead of regional elections.
They are known as "Les Sages" — the wise men — and their role is to judge whether French laws are constitutional. As a massive reform expanding their powers went into effect Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy instructed them to be a little wiser than usual.
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