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Paris is preparing to flip the switch on what aims to be one of the world's largest electric car-sharing programs.

An airline passenger says her Paris-to-Dublin flight was delayed nearly two hours after celebrated French actor Gerard Depardieu urinated on the plane ahead of takeoff.

If the New York sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn ever goes to trial, much will doubtless be made of his accuser’s background. But what about his? Since his New York arrest, a French writer has brought a criminal complaint in Paris about an attempted rape she says she suffered at Strauss-Kahn’s hands in 2003. The New York prosecutors made an apparent allusion to her claim at Strauss-Kahn’s first court appearance in May.

Former Dior designer John Galliano went on trial Wednesday charged with hurling anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe, allegations that shocked the fashion world and cost him his job at the renowned French high-fashion house....

Horrendous weather and a public transport strike caused chaos at the Paris Air Show on Wednesday, delaying a raft of order announcements for Airbus and dampening the mood at Boeing's unveiling of its new 787 jet....

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.

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.

A spokesman for the John Galliano fashion line says the label will not hold a runway show in Paris Fashion Week as originally planned, but instead will host a simple presentation of its latest collection....

In a bizarre story in The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that a court in Paris will shortly decide whether a law professor in New York committed criminal libel by publishing a book review.

Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane.