Small breakthroughs offer big hope of AIDS 'cure'
Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease.
Pierce Brosnan among fans at Paris Madonna concert
Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, star of Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" and a former James Bond incarnation, was among some 2,700 fans cheering US pop icon Madonna at her Paris concert Thursday.
Sunbed tanning kills 800 in Europe every year: study
Sunbed users run a 20 percent higher risk than non-users of developing skin cancer, according to a report that blamed some 800 melanoma deaths in Europe every year on indoor tanning.
A Frenchman's union of Islam and homosexuality
A newlywed homosexual Frenchman is on a mission to prove that "being gay and Muslim is possible" after feeling forced for years to choose between his religion and sexuality.
Batman movie director laments 'savage' massacre
Batman movie director Christopher Nolan lamented Friday the "senseless tragedy' and "unbearably savage" gunning down of 12 movie goers at a Colorado theater screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
Google grabs startup devoted to Apple gadget email
A French startup behind email applications for Apple gadgets has been bought by Google as the Internet titan increasingly tailors hit software to run on its rival's hardware.
French lawmakers vote to cut pay of president, PM
French lawmakers voted Thursday to reduce the salaries of President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault by 30 percent as part of a series of budget-cutting moves.
Are athletic records reaching their limits?
Some scientists say sporting records are starting to flatline and one day will become near impossible to beat without drugs, gene splicing or futuristic technology.
60 world-class welders to be trained in Karaganda
About 60 world-class welders are expected to graduate from Karaganda Technical University by the end of this year.
France's National Front to sue Madonna over swastika video
France's far-right National Front said Sunday it plans to sue Madonna over a video at the US pop star's concert in France showing party leader Marine Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead.
US, France mark 50th anniversary of first TV satellite
Fifty years ago Thursday a beach ball-sized satellite carried the first television images across the Atlantic, kicking off a new era of global communications decades before the Internet.
France's Hollande, UK's Cameron laugh off differences
French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron tried Tuesday to laugh off a rocky start to their relationship despite lingering differences over the eurozone crisis.
Vincent Cassel wishes to act in Bekmambetov’s movies
Vincent Cassel is interested in acting in Timur Bekmambetov's movies, because he is very impressed with his Abraham Lincoln.
France issues final report on mid-Atlantic air crash
French investigators will release on Thursday a final report into what caused the mid-Atlantic crash of a Rio to Paris Air France flight that killed 228 people in 2009.
Police raid Sarkozy office in campaign finance probe: lawyer
French police searched Nicolas Sarkozy's offices and home Tuesday as part of their probe into suspected illegal financing of his successful 2007 presidential election campaign.
Strauss-Kahn separated from wife, source confirms
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and wife Anne Sinclair have been separated for about a month, a source close to the one-time French presidential hopeful confirmed Monday.
Couture's graceful aliens at Iris Van Herpen
Sculpted in organic body-armour of glinting copper, acrylic or leather, a cast of graceful aliens stepped out in their finest attire at the Iris Van Herpen haute couture show in Paris on Monday.
A joint project of Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton opens Astana Film Festival
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a joint project of Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton, has been selected the opening film of the festival in Kazakhstan.
Louvre masterpieces exhibited in Almaty
Masterpieces from Louvre, Versailles and D’Orsay Museum have been brought to Almaty Kasteyev Arts Museum.
Kazakhstan-made Student movie recommended by Cannes Festival
Student movie directed by Kazakhstan Darezhan Omirbayev was named the most recommended film of the Cannes Film Festival.