Two children were forced to live in the cellar of a home in France for as long as three years, it is being reported. The brothers, aged 10 and 12, were rescued from their squalid living conditions after the older boy escaped and raised the [...]

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS | Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:34am EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France and Spain fell short of their budget deficit goals last year, data showed on Monday, although the overall fiscal picture for [...]

Tens of thousands of people were expected to cram the streets of Paris Sunday in a last-ditch protest to stop controversial gay marriage legislation from being approved. On Tuesday the French parliament is expected to pass the bill allowing [...]

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PARIS (AFP) – Tens of thousands of opponents of government plans to legalise gay marriage marched in Paris two days before a final vote on the bill, which has provoked fierce and sometimes violent protests. Clutching French flags, dressed [...]

Hank Brady, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, April 21, 2013 5:55 p.m. View full sizeView full size On a day where Shaw fans came out in full force to support their team on Senior Day, Rummel had different plans. The Raiders got just three hits [...]

In return, the SNC published a statement of principles that included pledges not to use chemical weapons, to renounce “terrorism and extremism”, and to respect the rights of minorities, including the Alawite sect from which [...]

PARIS: Thousands of opponents of a gay marriage bill thronged the streets of Paris on Sunday in a last-ditch bid to block the legislation, under the watchful eye of police after recent violence. The demonstration came after days of sometimes [...]

A kidnap ring who targetted businessman has been busted in Europe. Source: Supplied POLICE have smashed a gang which used fake bomb vests in the kidnapping of 21 businessmen [...]

Tens of thousands of people were expected to throng the streets of Paris in a last-ditch bid to block passage of controversial gay marriage legislation. The French parliament is expected to pass the bill allowing people of the same sex to [...]

“We’ve had political scandals before, on the Right and the Left,” says Fabrice Nivard, 58, the respected mayor of Darnac, a village nestling in the heart of la France profonde. “But this one really shocked me, because for a budget [...]

Thousands of opponents of a gay marriage bill thronged the streets of Paris Sunday in a last-ditch bid to block the legislation, under the watchful eye of police after recent violence over the divisive issue. The mass protest comes just two [...]

Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stormed a flashpoint town near Damascus on Sunday, said a watchdog, adding that scores of bodies, some of them disfigured, were found there. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least [...]

Defending triple world champion Sebastian Vettel extended his lead in this year’s title race on Sunday when he claimed an impressive victory for Red Bull in an incident-filled Bahrain Grand Prix. The race finished without any disruption [...]

April 21, 2013 8:09 pm By Scheherazade Daneshkhu in Paris

Link to video: Anti-gay marriage protests ahead of new French law Tens of thousands of protesters marched against gay marriage in Paris on Sunday, as thousands of others led a counter-demonstration against what [...]

Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede and Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya triumphed at a sombre London Marathon on Sunday, as runners paid tribute to the victims of the deadly bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon. Kebede hunted down 2011 champion Emmanuel [...]

From Lady Gaga to Brad Pitt, Anne Hathaway to George Clooney, Kim Kardashian to Jay-Z and even conservative Clint Eastwood, it is hard to come up with an American celebrity that has not at some point spoken out in favour of gay marriage. But [...]

Gay marriage may have passed with barely hitch in many countries, but it has kicked up a huge storm in France, a country often seen as the champion of secularism and notoriously relaxed on issues pertaining to private life. Smelling blood after [...]

Rescuers poured into a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the death toll from the country’s worst earthquake in three years climbed to 164 with more than 6,700 injured, state media said. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan [...]

PARIS – France has opened a judicial investigation into allegations that former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election bid won illicit funds from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the public prosecutor’s office [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. –  Livio Jean-Charles of France had 27 points and 13 rebounds Saturday to lead the World Select Team to a 112-98 win over the U.S. Junior National team at the Nike Hoop Summit. The 6-foot-9 forward hit 10 of 13 shots and the [...]

In April 2011 we were driving in France when our hire car was hit from behind and written off. Europcar charged us €700 for the excess, but said that if it could claim from the other vehicle’s insurer we’d be entitled to a refund. [...]

HMC Dockyard in Halifax is welcoming a new ship to the port city this weekend. Franceis showing off its latest warship design to be considered by Canada. The French destroyer, Aquitaine is the first of 11 destroyers ordered by the French [...]

France on Saturday bestowed its highest honor on a Salt Lake City man who, at age 22, drove a truck into the surf at Omaha Beach on D-Day and was later in the Battle of the Bulge. Emanuel Mike Kladis, 91, is troubled by a bad back and [...]

PARIS | Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:33pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) – ArcelorMittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal said on Saturday he regretted that the steel giant was having to permanently close two French blast furnaces but high labour [...]

A large American wartime poster proclaiming “We can do it” hangs behind the bar at Les Souffleurs, a fashionable bar in the Marais, the traditionally Jewish, but now gay, quarter of Paris. The barman admits business is a little quiet [...]

Can countries on the Mediterranean work to reinvent commerce? This was the question for Cécile Jolly, an economist at the Center for Strategic Analysis and Daniel Rouach, an administrator at the Chamber of Commerce France-Israel. The pair [...]