French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office denied a report by the online news service Mediapart that he had received cash from L’Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt before his 2007 presidential campaign. “This is totally untrue,” Sarkozy’s...

A growing French trend for spontaneous and merrily anarchic open-air drinks parties organised on Facebook has taken a different twist – with an “apéro” (aperatif) being organised in a Muslim neighbourhood of Paris. The “apéro”, or drinks...

A court convicted France’s Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux on Friday for voicing a racial insult about a young man of Arab origin. The Paris court fined Hortefeux 750 euros (900 dollars) and ordered him to pay 2,000 euros in damages for...

A 38-year-old woman acknowledged Monday killing six of her newborns, whose corpses were found in plastic bags in her basement, at the opening of a chilling trial in northwest France. Celine Lesage faces life in prison if convicted by the jury in the...

A French court convicted the Church of Scientology and one of its leaders of defrauding vulnerable members on Tuesday, but stopped short of banning the group’s activities in France. The Celebrity Centre and a bookshop — the two branches of...

On the evening of August 8, a suicide bomber wearing a belt full of explosives approached the exterior walls of the French embassy in Mauritania’s capital city of Nouakchott. He shouted “Allahu akbar” and blew himself up. Two embassy security...

French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, who was recently banned for betting on matches, has died. He was 24. The French tennis federation said Tuesday that Montcourt died overnight but the cause of death is not yet known, and an autopsy will be...

The French government is strongly advocating the teaching of Arabic language and civilization in French schools. Not surprising, considering the number of Arabs and Muslims in France, and the unctuous deference with which they are treated by officials,...

A fossil animal locked in Lebanese limestone has been shown to be an extremely precious discovery - a snake with two legs. Scientists have only a handful of specimens that illustrate the evolutionary narrative that goes from ancient lizard to limbless...