Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaida-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan, officials said.
Of all the power supplies in the energy mix, nuclear has historically been the most criticized and controversial. But this most unpopular of power sources has recently resurfaced in political and economic dialogue.
We're up in the north central part of France -- Normandy -- to see what's happening with French cheese. Cheese lovers will be happy to know, just about nothing, at least as far as the traditional cheeses are concerned.
In what has to be the consummate nightmare of any male with a fearless reputation, Michel Houellebecq is getting a very public spanking from his own mother
Six pirates who hijacked a French luxury yacht off the coast of Somalia are now in custody in France, a diplomatic official said Wednesday.
France's Culture Ministry fears that the country's lack of interest in purchasing art is bleeding an enormous vein of national culture dry
The terrible agony of Chantal Sebire is over, but the cause she championed may change laws after her death
My public relations agency, NettResults, based in Irvine, Calif., and Dubai, employs 18 people speaking a total of nine languages. Through a partner, we work with 58 other agencies in 26 countries. So I was excited to test three new language-translation software suites: If they worked, I could e-mail clients myself and cut down on the pricey human translators we use every day.
A new Ch'ti comedy is setting box office records and turning northern France into the hottest, trendiest entertainment draw in French history
According to a new survey, in France they're starting younger and doing it longer. More importantly, Gallic women are catching up with the traditionally more amorous men
Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaida-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan, officials said.
Of all the power supplies in the energy mix, nuclear has historically been the most criticized and controversial. But this most unpopular of power sources has recently resurfaced in political and economic dialogue.
We're up in the north central part of France -- Normandy -- to see what's happening with French cheese. Cheese lovers will be happy to know, just about nothing, at least as far as the traditional cheeses are concerned.
In what has to be the consummate nightmare of any male with a fearless reputation, Michel Houellebecq is getting a very public spanking from his own mother
Six pirates who hijacked a French luxury yacht off the coast of Somalia are now in custody in France, a diplomatic official said Wednesday.
France's Culture Ministry fears that the country's lack of interest in purchasing art is bleeding an enormous vein of national culture dry
The terrible agony of Chantal Sebire is over, but the cause she championed may change laws after her death
My public relations agency, NettResults, based in Irvine, Calif., and Dubai, employs 18 people speaking a total of nine languages. Through a partner, we work with 58 other agencies in 26 countries. So I was excited to test three new language-translation software suites: If they worked, I could e-mail clients myself and cut down on the pricey human translators we use every day.
A new Ch'ti comedy is setting box office records and turning northern France into the hottest, trendiest entertainment draw in French history
According to a new survey, in France they're starting younger and doing it longer. More importantly, Gallic women are catching up with the traditionally more amorous men
When I first saw this old diner, I knew it would be integral to the business I would create with my husband, Pascal Siegler - and to our home. We'd seen many traditional commercial spaces, and none of them suited us. But this salmon-pink concrete building was perfect. With its original features, including diner stools and large steel sinks, the 39- by 19-foot main room was just the kind of space we needed.
Like all of Europe, France has some changes in store for visitors in 2008 -- starting at the top. France's newly elected president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently appointed prime minister, Francois Fillon, appear to be America-friendly, so we can expect no more cries for Freedom Fries from people who don't get out much.
The ruling brings the saga of humanitarian assistance group ZoÉ's Ark to its legal conclusion, but emotions are running high
A multi-billion dollar fraud hits the country's second-biggest bank, leading to questions about how such insider schemes can be prevented
The European Court of Human Rights has overturned French court rulings that prevented a single lesbian woman from adopting a child
As a look, it is about as quintessentially French as it gets. All the same, from the New Year enjoying a cigarette while you sip on your cafe au lait will become a thing of the past.
Six French charity workers sentenced in Chad to eight years of hard labor for trying to kidnap children were on their way back to France on Friday, the French president's office said.
Now that a Chad court has handed down their convictions, mending damaged relations with France will be the real challenge
Members of the Basque group ETA have shot dead a Spanish civil guard and seriously wounded another in southern France, Spanish officials said.
Concern is rising that rioting may spread across the nation as it did in 2005 if it manages to ignite resentment bottled up in other areas of the country
Moving around France just got a whole lot easier. But amid relief over union decisions to suspend the nine-day transport strike is whether the return to normal will last
Striking railway workers have carried out "a coordinated campaign of sabotage" on the tracks of France's high-speed TGV rail network, setting fire to cables and signal boxes and causing delays of up to three hours, France's national rail authority said Wednesday.
As the French get ready for another round of disruptions, there are fears from the President that his vast reform program is now in doubt
Both events were as widely expected as they were painstakingly choreographed
My interior design business, Randall Koll Lifestyle & Design (randallkoll.com), takes me on frequent trips to France, where I wish I could just relax at my favorite cafés but hardly ever have the time. So when I come home to San Francisco, I go to Café de la Presse (cafedelapresse.com).
Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel.
Four alleged members of Basque separatist group ETA were arrested Saturday in France, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
Friday's flat stage was snatched by Sandy Casar, a Frenchman riding for Francaise des Jeux. It was one of those long, flat hauls that set up well for a breakaway by a group of Nothing Burgers -- a colleague's expression for riders who've taken up residence in the southern reaches of the general classification.
Through the years, there have been many unforgettable and sometimes unfortunate hairstyles.
She lost an election. Now SÉgolÈne Royal has shed a mate. The marital exploits of France's pols are becoming fair game
Conservatives are expected to win a commanding majority in legislative elections, giving the new President a free hand to transform France
France paused Saturday for a "day of reflection" -- in which campaigning is barred -- before voting begins in presidential elections on Sunday.
On the night of the French Presidential election, CNN followed the work of popular French bloggers. You can find background on each below, along with links to their blogs.
The following is a log of stories about France's presidential election campagin:
Voters will go to the polls on April 22 to elect the sixth president of the Fifth Republic of France.
There are 12 candiates running for president of France in the first round of voting on April 22. Here is a brief description of the candidates:
France broke the world speed record on rails Tuesday with a souped-up fast train, a feat to showcase the technology it is trying to sell to overseas markets including China.
French police arrested two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, just hours after Spain detained eight ETA suspects, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.
The story of the Acadians usually starts in the middle, with the Great Upheaval. The real beginning came with the early-1600s arrival of French Catholic settlers in the land that became known as Acadia (consisting of much of the modern-day Maritime coast of Canada).
Police arrested three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA in southern France on Tuesday, acting on a Spanish judge's arrest warrant, Spain's Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Meursault, Montrachet, Santenay and Puligny are all liquid assets of France's Burgundy region, wines that are the product of chalky, sloping hillsides and a precise measure of sunlight.
Check out The Scene's recommendations for France's second city and send us your suggestions.
There can be few less glamorous modern problems in the world than traffic congestion and often the solution of a bypass displaces people, wildlife and creates a vast ugly swathe of concrete through what was once a picturesque landscape.
France TÈlÈcom ranks no. 71 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $60.9 billion in revenues, up 3.9% from the previous year. The Paris, France-based company was ranked no. 63 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $7.1 billion, up 104.9% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
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France is honoring for the first time the victims of its slave trade, 158 years after it stopped the practice of taking people from their African homelands and enslaving them in Caribbean colonies.
NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - The only protest march I ever participated in was in Amsterdam in 1987 or 1988. The premise was absurd: University students were opposing a government proposal (which was later enacted) that they pay tuition if they failed to graduate within six years. (College was otherwise free.). I was studying at a Dutch university at the time, some friends were marching, and I thought it would be fun to join in.
Students and labor unions in France plan to take to the streets on Tuesday to celebrate the repeal of a controversial jobs law.
France's highest court has ruled that a job bill that has sparked massive demonstrations and strikes across the country is valid.
A ski trip to the French Alps: The mere thought conjures up dreamy images of pristine snowy slopes, charming wooden chalets and celebrities in chunky knitwear feeding each other lumps of hot cheese.
An armed former teacher has taken 18 students hostage at a high school in northwest France, a spokeswoman for the city's mayor and police officials told CNN.
About 200 Muslims demonstrated Friday outside the Danish Embassy to protest caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed originally published in a Danish newspaper, Danish Ambassador Neils Erik Andersen told CNN.
France's foreign minister has urged that the French engineer abducted in Iraq be freed "without delay."
Thomas Jefferson said, "Every American has a second home in France."
French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a measure that would give police new powers to fight terrorism and expand the use of surveillance cameras in public places.
HIV and AIDS is considered "the greatest risk to world health today" by residents of Britain, France and Germany, according to a survey carried out on behalf of CNN and TIME.
THE COURTYARD OF THE RENAULT housing complex in Les Mureaux, some 25 miles west of Paris, is bristling with tension. About 20 residents stand near a wall where someone has spray-painted the words N...
Commuters and travelers in France faced transport chaos on Tuesday as a nationwide strike by rail workers cut train services and caused major disruption.
Eight police officers have been suspended pending an investigation into allegations two officers beat a youth during the recent rioting in France while six others looked on.
Unrest simmered again in France for the 14th straight night, when vandals pushed a car into a school courtyard in Toulouse and set it on fire.
As midnight struck in France a government-declared state of emergency started, triggering curfews in cities and towns after 12 days of the worst civil unrest the nation has seen in decades.
French troops have stormed a ship off the Corsican coast, ending a labor dispute over the privatization of a state-owned ferry operator.
French police detained at least seven people early Monday suspected of plotting a "terrorist action" in France, authorities said.
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SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) - In less than a month Lance Armstrong will chase an unprecedented seventh straight victory of the Tour de France, the 21-day bike race covering 2,241 miles in France.
In France, be prepared for a passionate business encounter.
Sometimes design simplicity--in this case, a $1 yellow rubber bracelet--is all it takes to make an emotional connection with consumers. When the Lance Armstrong Foundation created the charitable wr...
Americans are on the verge of becoming the world's biggest consumers of wine. And it's the French who are saying so.
Police have arrested two suspected Basque separatist operatives -- a man and a woman -- in a raid on a hostel in Madrid, confiscating weapons and explosives, the Spanish Interior Ministry says.
On a gray day, French high school students are learning about a dark heritage.
The devastating tsunami that wiped out cities, seaside communities and holiday resorts in southern Asia has not put holidaymakers off visiting the region, a survey has found.
The French foreign minister has called for "a new trans-Atlantic relationship" between the United States and its European allies.
Five people were slightly wounded when seven bombs exploded in as many Spanish cities following warnings by Basque separatist group ETA, according to officials.
Police have found two new arms caches belonging to ETA in southwest France, two weeks after the Basque separatist group's suspected leader was captured in France, Spanish officials say.
French police have found two Russian-made missiles in a search for arms caches following the arrest of the suspected top leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, Spain's Interior Ministry said.
French law enforcement officials have arrested the leader of the Basque separatist group ETA in a raid in southwestern France.
The group holding the two French journalists hostage in Iraq have issued a scathing denunciation of France on its Web site, saying the country has a "history of oppression and persecution of Muslims and Islam."
It's been a tough few years for French winemakers.
The first French nationals released from the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base on Cuba have arrived in France.
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At the largest gathering of European winemakers outside of Europe, French vintners have a message for American consumers: come back, s'il vous plaît.
CNN asked viewers for their thoughts and memories on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. Here are some of the e-mails we received:
Thousands of D-Day veterans are gathering in northern France for a weekend marking the 60th anniversary of the greatest amphibious invasion in military history.
Hundreds of veterans are making a "symbolic crossing" of the English Channel on their way to the D-Day commemorations in France.
France has gone on red security alert for the visit of a host of world leaders at the weekend for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
France is marking D-Day with a special tribute to the United States and its role in the Normandy landings which brought the liberation of Europe in 1944.
France must tackle the issue of training Muslim prayer leaders in a moderate "French Islam" that respects human rights and rejects terrorism, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin says.
Queen Elizabeth II has warned Britain and France they cannot afford to be divided while facing threats to their security.
The shadowy group that has issued threats to bomb France's railway system says it is suspending its terror threats while it improves its ability to carry them out.
A rail worker found an explosive device half-buried in the bed of a railway line heading from France to Switzerland, government officials and the French rail service SNCF said.
French police have opened an investigation after a Paris newspaper received a letter from a Muslim group threatening spectacular attacks that would make "blood run to (its) borders."
The French National Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a proposed controversial ban on Muslim headscarves and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in French schools.
French lawmakers are to debate whether a ban is needed on "conspicuous" religious symbols in public schools.
Calling the French a proud people with "strong views," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted France has annoyed him at times -- and he has been just as annoying to them.
France has praised the signing by Libya of a $170 million compensation deal with the families of 170 people killed in a 1989 airliner bombing.
A OUI BIT OF DESPERATION Hotel bookings in France by Americans are down around 20% so far this year. The plunge in popularity, coupled with a weak dollar, has the French falling over themselves to ...
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