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France's new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest....

French officials say they could begin recovering victims of Air France's 2009 Rio plane crash within weeks, days after wreckage was found.

Vivendi announced on Sunday that it has taken full control of SFR, the big French cellphone service provider, by buying Vodafone’s 44 percent stake in the company for $11.3 billion in cash.

The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accused France of seeing Libya as a source of 'oil, gold mines and underground treasures'.

Paris' Eiffel Tower was evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious package was found at the base of one of the world's most visited tourist sites, the monument's operating company said.

France's online privacy watchdog has fined Google €100,000 for unfair data collection from wireless networks through the company's Street View mapping service and localization program Latitude.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking after an emergency summit of world powers in Paris, announces 'our planes are stopping attacks' on Benghazi and that France and its partner nations are determined to stop Moammar Kadafi's 'killing frenzy.' Sarkozy says the summit agreed to demand and enforce an 'immediate cease-fire' in Libya.

Austria on Monday called for European nuclear power plants to face stress tests to reassure people worried by the crisis in Japan while Britain and France urged calm.

President Barack Obama will talk to the leaders of Britain and France on Thursday about the crisis in Libya as Washington kept all options open, including sanctions and military action.

French hopes for tough curbs on commodities speculation to tame soaring food prices look set to be thwarted as leading producer nations line up to oppose market interference.