France's new Socialist government is to legalise marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Friday, reflecting a shift in public attitudes in the majority Cat

Care facilities often deny elderly people the basic right, and one of their few remaining pleasures, to continue having sex, according to a paper published on Tuesday.

Many older people, including th

A British man has committed suicide by climbing up the Eiffel Tower in Paris and jumping to his death, officials said on Monday.

Police spotted the man climbing the structure of the tower around 11:3

Poupie Cadolle's family has been making handmade lingerie in a workshop on Rue Saint Honore for five generations, with Qatari royals, American actresses and Swiss bankers' wives all crossing her doors

The road was clear on Monday for France's Socialists to push through their tax-and-spend agenda to battle the eurozone debt crisis after clinching an absolute majority in parliamentary polls.

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Paris authorities are mulling a plan to extend the Eiffel Tower downwards as above ground building would spoil the French capital's geometry, the head of the landmark's operating company said on Friday.

Ratings agency Moody's downgraded on Friday its long-term credit rating of Finnish telecommunications group Nokia by one notch to the speculative level of ‘Ba1’ and said its outlook remained negative.

French President Francois Hollande's girlfriend has set the French political establishment aghast with a tweet of support for the man running against the mother of Hollande's children.

The tweet on T

The eurozone debt crisis, a Chinese slowdown and increased supply depressed oil prices in May but despite fears of a sharp drop, they still remain high and crimp growth, the IEA said on Wednesday.

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French President Francois Hollande faced his first political storm on Wednesday as his rightwing opponents looked to exploit an incendiary tweet by his partner just days ahead of a parliamentary elect