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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.

France has the jitters over possibility of a terrorist attack, as government makes repeated warnings.

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

Germany, France and the UK said Tuesday that they will introduce bank levies to offset the cost of future financial crisis and will urge their counterparts from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations to do the ...

But with the deflating euro and a rapidly aging population, they may have to make some concessions.

French workers will soon have to stay on the job -- for all of 35 hours a week -- until they are 62.

Thieves steal a work by Picasso and other pictures - a day after a major art theft from a gallery in Paris.

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

France's government on Thursday announced it would apply a proposed ban on face-covering Islamic veils to visiting tourists as well as residents, even as skepticism mounted over the legality of the plan.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that fully cover the ...