Adam Gadahn, an American member of Al-Qaeda also known as Azzam the American, rips up his US passport in a new video obtained by Agence France-Presse from the SITE Intelligence Group.
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Riccardo Tisci has imagined a sculpted form for Givenchy’s fashion-forward women this spring. Images from the haute couture runway show in Paris on Wednesday.
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Herve Ynsa claims the title of France’s "most tattooed man" — and competes for the honour on the European circuit. From the age of 16, and at the cost of some 20,000 euros, he's added a sun, a samurai, a Japanese demon and other designs to his skin, but says his goal is to cover his entire...
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Hundreds of Chinese protested on Saturday in Beijing and several other big cities against France over its attitude towards Tibet and the Olympic Games, according to police and witnesses. Police blocked the roads leading to the French embassy in Beijing. In France, hundreds of Chinese held a demo...
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From her childhood in Austria to her life at Versailles, the life of France’s most glamourous queen, Marie-Antoinette, is at the heart of an exhibit which opens Saturday at the Grand Palais in Paris and runs through the end of June. More than 300 works are gathered from all over Europe — p...
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The You Tube generation have made their choice for president, Barack Obama, and they’re singing his praises on the Internet. From "Obama Girl" to "Yes, We Can" by Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, the Democratic candidate is being celebrated in song.
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The French football team takes on Italy tonight. France needs a victory to keep its Euro 2008 hopes alive, but it also needs the Netherlands to avoid a defeat against Romania.
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Six French charity workers convicted of trying to kidnap 103 children in Chad arrived back in France late on Friday where prosecutors were mulling how to adjust their hard labour sentences. The members of L’Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) were convicted Wednesday of attempted abduction for having tried ...
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More than one thousand Sikhs paraded through the streets of Bobigny, France in colorful traditional dress to celebrate their New Year. To the beat of drums, they handed out honey wafes, dried fruit and pastries to onlookers. There are around 10,000 Sikhs lviing in France, many in the Bo...
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On Wednesday France marks the centenary of the the birth of Simone de Beauvoir, the iconic figurehead of the 20th-century struggle for women’s liberation. Her groundbreaking 1949 work on the female condition, "The Second Sex", her defiance of social taboos, and the legendary "open" couple she fo...
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