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Jewels worth 40 million euros stolen in Cannes: investigator An armed man stole jewels with an estimated value of 40 million euros ($53 million) in a brazen heist in broad daylight at a diamond exhibition in the French Riviera resort of Cannes Sunday.

29 July 2013

Seven people drown off France's south coast Seven men drowned Sunday off France's Mediterranean coast due to a combination of high winds and strong currents.

29 July 2013

Time to train for world's first fleet of marine drones An odd underwater ballet has been unfolding in the Mediterranean port of Toulon these past few days.

27 July 2013

Africa backs French Mali mission, Mideast against: poll Africans generally approve of France's military intervention to help drive Islamists out of northern Mali, while Middle Easterners are opposed.

26 July 2013

Syria opposition leader set to meet France's Hollande Syria's opposition leader is scheduled to meet French President Francois Hollande Wednesday, a day after asking France for military aid to boost the forces fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

24 July 2013

Tight security after French riots sparked by veil row France's interior minister said Sunday security forces would remain in place "as long as necessary" after a second night of violence in the Paris suburbs sparked when police stopped a woman for wearing a veil.

22 July 2013

Police attacked with petrol bombs in fresh NIreland unrest Police were attacked with petrol bombs and a French press photographer assaulted during a fifth night of violence on the streets of east Belfast..

17 July 2013

Nazarbayev sends condolences to Hollande over rail crash near Paris Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a telegram with condolences to French President Francois Hollande over the rail crash at Bretigny-sur-Orge station near Paris.

15 July 2013

DNA flaw boosts cancer risk from diabetes: study A DNA flaw may explain why people with Type 2 diabetes are more prone to blood cancers than the rest of the population.

15 July 2013

Hollande vows to fight 'pessimism', says economy recovering President Francois Hollande vowed Sunday to fight French "pessimism" in the face of a struggling economy.

15 July 2013

Search for answers after French rail crash kills six Investigators worked Saturday to determine the cause of a train crash near Paris that claimed six lives as the French transport minister warned that more victims could yet be found.

13 July 2013

France's accordion king Andre Verchuren dies aged 92 France's king of the accordion, Andre Verchuren, who entertained generations in the dance halls and on record, died Wednesday aged 92.

11 July 2013

Ex-IMF chief says he has no problem with women Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he doesn't have "any kind of problems with women".

11 July 2013

Dongfeng, Renault to set up $1.8 bn JV: media Ambitious Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor and France's Renault may sign a deal this month for an 11 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) joint venture after a decade of talks.

09 July 2013

No risk of pandemic yet from MERS virus: scientists The new MERS coronavirus that has claimed dozens of lives in the Middle East does not yet have the ability to trigger a pandemic, but vigilance is needed in case it mutates.

06 July 2013

'Amelie' star's dress is boon for young designer "Amelie" star Audrey Tautou's choice of Yiqing Yin for the Cannes film festival generated more interest in one night than the Chinese-born French designer has enjoyed in her whole career.

04 July 2013

Naomi Campbell comes undone at Paris fashion week Naomi Campbell drew cheers on the catwalk at Paris fashion week when the 43-year-old supermodel opened the first haute couture show of the season for Versace.

01 July 2013

US intelligence targeted Italy and France embassies: report France, Italy and Greece were among 38 "targets" of spying operations conducted by US intelligence services, according to documents leaked to the Guardian newspaper by fugitive former CIA operative Edward Snowden.

01 July 2013

Men dare to bare at Paris fashion Belgian designer Raf Simons on Wednesday got Paris fashion week off to an unconventional start, bussing hundreds of people out to the distinctly less than fashionable Paris suburb of Le Bourget.

27 June 2013

EU ministers agree on new bank rescue rules European finance ministers on Thursday agreed a draft deal on new rules for bank rescues that will only allow bailouts by taxpayers in exceptional cases and shift the burden onto bank owners, creditors and large depositors.

27 June 2013

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