As millions of television viewers around the world watched Prince William marry Kate Middleton in London on Friday, in Paris a small number of wellwishers remembered his late mother, Diana, Princess o

In what may provide some measure of reassurance to those raising doubts about the safety of the proposed Jaitapur nuclear plant in Maharashtra post the Fukushima disaster, the French authorities here

BEFORE ANYONE gets the wrong idea, Ines de la Fressange would like to point out that you cannot just spend your way into becoming a Parisian.

A late goal from Taye Taiwo saw Marseille edge Montpellier 1-0 in the French League Cup final on Saturday, becoming the first team to retain the trophy in its 17-year history.

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Some 90 million people worldwide live within 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) of a nuclear reactor, equivalent to the exclusion zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima plant, a study released on Friday shows

Film director Woody Allen could see French President Nicolas Sarkozy playing a role like those of Humphrey Bogart, who was famous for his cynical and hardboiled anti-heroes.

Manchester United and Barcelona wrapped up their places in the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday as they progressed at the expense of Chelsea and Shakhtar Donetsk respectively.

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Astronomers said on Tuesday they believed the first galaxies formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang, a finding that challenges assumptions of how the universe grew from infancy into childhoo

The police in France, home to Europe’s biggest Muslim population, arrested two protesters wearing niqab veils on Monday after a ban on full-face coverings went into effect.

Following is a factfile on the International Nuclear Events Scale (INES), following Japan's decision on Tuesday to upgrade the gravity of the Fukushima accident from five to seven on this benchmark.