Pippa Middleton, the sister-in-law of Prince William and one of the most photographed women on earth, has been questioned by French police after one of her friends pulled out a pistol and pointed it a

Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the verge of a record comeback?

He still trails Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, but in just three months of intense campaigning he has dragged himself

Hundreds of extra police were drafted into the Paris suburbs on Saturday where four murders have been carried out with the same weapon since November, raising fears a serial killer is on the loose.

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Firefighters on Thursday battled two blazes at a nuclear reactor that shut down automatically after smoke triggered alarms at an installation in northern France, operator EDF said.

The French firefig

Thirteen suspected Islamists have been charged in France with 'criminal conspiracy connected to a terrorist enterprise' and illegal possession and transportation of weapons, officials said Wednesday.

France said on Monday it was deporting five Islamic militants and Muslim preachers in the latest show of strength by President Nicolas Sarkozy as he clamps down on radical elements after seven people

China on Saturday successfully sent a French-made high power communication and broadcasting satellite into orbit.

A Long March-3B carrier rocket launched the satellite 'APSTAR-7' from the southweste

Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah was buried in his hometown Toulouse on Thursday, despite a protest by the French city's mayor after the serial killer's homeland Algeria refused his corpse.

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday said the root of Europe's debt woes lay partly in the irresponsible parenting of Germany and France during the bloc's infancy.

Monti told reporters in

Abdelkader Merah, brother of the Islamist gunman who killed seven people in southwest France, was was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges on Sunday and remanded in custody, a judicial sour