The whistleblower website WikiLeaks was back on line Friday with a new Swiss address — wikileaks.Ch — six hours after its previous domain name — wikileaks.Org — was shut down.

A 71-year-old retired electrician is at the centre of a legal battle after coming forward with more than 200 hitherto unknown paintings by Pablo Picasso, a French newspaper reported Monday.

A 71-year-old retired electrician is at the centre of a legal battle after coming forward with 271 hitherto unknown paintings by Pablo Picasso, a French newspaper reported on Monday.

Thirty-five Iraqis wounded in a deadly Al Qaeda attack on a church in Baghdad arrived in France, where they were to be admitted to hospitals for treatment.

A painting by celebrated master Edgar Degas has been found at a New York auction nearly 40 years after being stolen from a French museum, France’s culture ministry said.

Neanderthals may be lampooned as slack-jawed low-brows who could just about wield a heavy club on a good day, but in one important respect they outperformed us: in the number of sex partners.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has claimed that his Iranian counterpart has assured him that no final decision has been taken about the woman who could be stoned to death for adultery charge

France and some allied Nato armies could begin to withdraw some of their forces from the conflict in Afghanistan as early as 2011, defence minister Herve Morin said on Thursday.

Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated on Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, but a police search turned up nothing suspicious, French media r

Formula One will stretch to a record 20 races across four continents next year with India making its eagerly awaited Grand Prix debut in Octo-ber, the sport’s governing body said on Wednesday.