Dominique Saatenang is not just any Kung Fu master. He is the first African and fourth non-Chinese to join the Shaolin Temple in China and to become its worldwide ambassador.
A series of bomb attacks at the end of last month in Ukraine could hardly have come at a worse time, as the country prepares to host the Euro 2012 football tournament.
A limbless Frenchman who hopes to complete four challenging swims around the world, had to delay his start in Papua New Guinea on Monday after a bureaucratic hitch.
Voters go to the polls in France and Greece. Portugal 's attempts to get of debt flounder. Will Timoshenko's hunger strike lead to Euro 2012 cancellation?
On the eve of second round presidential elections here in France, the papers are all about the duel between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger François Hollande.
Roy Hodgson, the new manager of the England football team, has just over a month to fashion a side for the European championships in Poland and Ukraine.
In the past year or so a new sport has taken off in France. Played exclusively by women, roller derby is a contact sport that is gaining more and more attention here and in the rest of Europe.
