President Francois Hollande has named 38-year-old technocrat Fleur Pellerin as France's first South Korean-born minister, in charge of small and medium-sized businesses and the digital economy.
A Malaysian shopkeeper pleaded not guilty to murdering a French woman on an island resort after she refused to have sex with him, his lawyer said as the trial opened Thursday.
France’s new President François Hollande started his term in office with a homage to Jules Ferry, the 19th-century politician seen as the father of the modern French education system.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday pledged to keep her country’s troops in Afghanistan until the official Nato pull-out date at the end of 2014.
Blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng is worried that authorities will persecute his family after his escape from house arrest, he told RFI on Wednesday.
Osama bin Laden wanted Al-Qaeda in north Africa to keep French hostages alive until after the presidential election currently taking place, a letter released by US secret services shows.
French people are escaping debt-ridden Europe and flocking to Asia in unprecedented numbers drawn by economic opportunities and a lower standard of living.
Ten French nationals have been thrown out of the Indian state of Bihar after it was claimed they were working with a charity linked to Maoist rebel fighters, officials said on Monday.
One of the last surviving leading members of the French resistance to Nazi rule has died, aged 97. Raymond Aubrac's escape from German hands was a theme in two films. After the war he ...
Police have arrested an Indian businessman in connection with the murder of a French woman in a New Delhi guesthouse located in a rundown district popular with backpackers.
The new state of South Sudan, along with Myanmar, has been admitted into the international organization of parliamentarians - the Inter Parliamentary Union or IPU.
