The euro jumped to a five-month high after the first round of voting in the French presidential election on Sunday. Centrist Emmanuel Macron topped the voting, going through to the final round with...
Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron will face anti-EU, anti-immigration candidate Marine Le Pen in the French presidential run-off duel on May 7, according to initial estimates after Sunday’s...
Paco Sery was a kid banging on tin cans before a job at a Club Med in Ivory Coast opened the way to drumming for Congo's rumba king Papa Wemba as well as Nina Simone and other jazz greats. The...
Lady Gaga and Prince William have made plans to meet in October to discuss how they can tackle mental illness. The ‘Million Reasons’ hitmaker has been invited by the 34-year-old royal to talk...
Voters are going to the polls in France to choose their next president, amid high security following a deadly attack on Paris police three days ago. About 50,000 police and 7,000 soldiers are being...
Voters are going to the polls in France to choose their next president, amid high security following a deadly attack on Paris police three days ago. About 50,000 police and 7,000 soldiers are being...
Looking out at his 50-hectare (124-acre) estate in a valley nestled below the Helderberg mountains, winemaker Ken Forrester beams with pride in his achievements over 20 years in the business. "We...
France is preparing to vote in presidential elections on Sunday, amid high security after a fatal assault on a Paris policeman three days ago. About 50,000 police and 7,000 soldiers are being...
Owen Farrell insisted Saracens could be "more clinical" after the title-holders beat Munster 26-10 in a commanding European Champions Cup semi-final win in Dublin on Saturday. Second-half tries from...
Two days after an attack on Paris's Champs-Élysées that left one police officer dead, questions remain about the shooter, his ties to terrorism, and whether he had accomplices. The Islamic State...
French overseas territories and residents in some U. S. states such as Hawaii began voting on Saturday in the French presidential election, a day ahead of a main first-round vote that could change...
The French consulate in New York, where thousands of expatriates were registered to cast ballots in their presidential election on Saturday, was briefly evacuated following a bomb threat, officials...
Thousands of people joined a global March for Science on Saturday with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an "assault on facts" by populist politicians....
More than 100 wives and partners of police are protesting in Paris against attacks on police following the killing of an officer on the Champs Elysees. The Angry Police Wives group is marching...
Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation on Saturday along Beirut's sunny seaside. A...
Sevran, France - A few hundred feet away from Sevran's Beaudottes metro station is a wall of metal attached to a railing, without distinguishing features except for the posters on it. Every one of...
The movement behind social unrest that left French Guiana paralysed for almost a month has ended the protest after Paris pledged an aid package worth billions of euros. A general strike by 37 unions...
Julianna Margulies, star of "The Good Wife", plans to produce a television series based on the stories of female reporters during the Vietnam War, the actress told AFP on Friday. The 50-year-old...
Leading candidates on the right in France’s presidential vote have been accused of using the killing of a policeman in Paris for political ends. The far right’s Marine Le Pen pledged to expel...
Clint Eastwood is to direct the heroic true story of three Americans who stopped a terrorist plot on a train bound for Paris, US media said. The as yet untitled project will be based on "The 15:17 to...
