A cave containing 25,000-year-old paintings and the climats of one the world’s most famous wine regions are France’s candidates to be added to the UN’s World Heritage status in ...
War tourism is big business in France. Over six million people visited battle sites, memorials and museums devoted to the first and second world wars in France in 2010.
BB King, Snoop Dogg, Mavis Staples and Chaka Khan were all in the Dutch port of Rotterdam last year for one of the world’s outstanding music events, the
The Louvre museum in Paris had a record number of visitors last year, consolidated its position as the world's most-visited museum according to figures released on Monday.
A watercolour of Napoleon Bonaparte sporting a large erection and a 19th-century condom were among the objects auctioned on Monday in a large sale of erotica.
An oil painting by Nicolas de Staël has been sold for over seven million euros, a record for the artist and, according to the auctioneers, the highest price paid for a work of art in Paris in ...
A small-budget French film centred on an elderly retired couple has won the European parliament's Lux prize Wednesday for its focus on social injustice.
The French weekly whose premises were firebombed after printing a cover featuring the Prophet Mohammed has accused Facebook of stopping it moderating its own page and has set up a blog to get ...
Biology teacher Alexis Jenni on Wednesday won France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for his first novel L'art francais de la guerre (The French Art of War).
The offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo were hit by an apparent arson attack overnight just ahead of the publication of an edition carrying a front-page cartoon of the prophet ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been ordered to pay 15 million yuan (1.7 million euros) in back taxes, he said Tuesday, branding the move an attempt to "crush" him for his outspoken ...
The Paris theatre targeted by Christian fundamentalist protests has denied that excrement is portrayed running over the face of Jesus Christ in the play it is currently showing.
