PARIS: An Africa-France summit opens in Nice on Monday after organizers drew up a guest list that leaves some disgraced leaders out in the cold while still inviting a few junta chiefs to the party.
President Nicolas Sarkozy will be playing host (...)
PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy will host his first Africa summit next week, joined by some 40 leaders in the Riviera city of Nice as France seeks to salvage its dwindling clout on the continent.
Among Africa's heavy hitters at the two-day (...)
PARIS: A French parliament report called Tuesday for a ban on the full Islamic veil, saying Muslim women who wear the burqa were mounting an unacceptable challenge to French values.
After six months of hearings, a panel of 32 lawmakers (...)
Historians know him as the Sun King who ruled France for 72 years and made Versailles a European center of power, but Louis XIV owes his royal grandeur to artists perhaps more than armies.
The first large-scale exhibition devoted to Louis XIV at (...)
The French government s backing for Roman Polanski triggered unease on Tuesday as dissenting voices said the convicted fugitive sex offender should answer for his crime.
Government ministers and much of the France s cultural elite have rushed to (...)
Nazi-occupied Paris conjures up images of food rationing and scarcity in a climate of fear and repression. It was also a time of garish hats and clunky wooden-heeled shoes.
For the first time, a Paris museum is offering a glimpse at the world's (...)
A global digital library allowing scholars and cybersurfers to scroll through such unique works as the 13th-century Devil s Bible and rare photos from the Ottoman Empire was launched on Tuesday.
Four years in the making, the World Digital Library (...)