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Al Qaeda and related groups are planning attacks on Western European capitals, officials said, but they had no intelligence on the timing or specific locations.

The Eiffel Tower and the park around it were evacuated Tuesday night after a bomb alert, police said.

Five paintings, reportedly including a Matisse and a Picasso, were stolen overnight from a Paris museum, the Paris mayor's office said Thursday.

An American citizen on a flight from Paris to Atlanta claimed to have a fake passport and said he had explosives in his luggage, forcing federal air marshals to intervene and the plane to land in Maine, US officials said Tuesday.

A newly authenticated Van Gogh has gone on display 35 years after a discredited art collector bought it in Paris, convinced it was painted by the famed Dutch master but never able to prove it.

The Jon & Kate Plus 8 star took 22-year-old Hailey Glassman to St. Tropez.

A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a specially locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter's name, authorities said Tuesday.

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French workers at a factory south of Paris free their boss after holding him hostage in a dispute over lay-offs.

The winning bidder of a pair of Chinese bronzes auctioned off in Paris, France, emerged Monday as a collection adviser from China's National Treasures Fund, and he has refused to pay, Xinhua news agency reported.