President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to put a lid on the political furor over senior ministers’ taking free flights in Tunisia and Egypt last Christmas by telling his cabinet to vacation in France.

A huge cache of canvas painted by Pablo Picasso nearly 100 years ago were unveiled for the first time by a French man who claimed the art works were gifted to him by the legend. The collection of 271 paintings, drawings, sketches and lithographs, many...

Paris, France (CNN) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday, but named new defense and foreign ministers in a cabinet reshuffle ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

It’s one of the grandest palaces in central Paris, housing treasured national documents from Napoleon’s will to the rules of tennis. But behind a makeshift barricade of box-files and banners, staff are camping out in sleeping bags, as...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on the world’s 20 largest economies to work together to reform global monetary order. “We must define a new framework for discussing currency movements,” Mr. Sarkozy said, adding that it is...

A French couple will appear in court on Thursday after police found the bodies of eight newborn babies in a village in northern France. Police are continuing to search with sniffer dogs in Villers-au-Tertre, near Lille in northern France, where the...

A 35-year-old man with a genetic disorder has an entirely new face – including tear ducts that cry, and a chin that sprouts stubble – thanks to a rare full-face transplant performed by a French surgeon and hailed as a new advance in improving the...

Bayern Munich star and France international Franck Ribery has been quizzed by French police investigating an affair of prostitution involving a minor. ‘He was questioned as a witness - for us the matter stops there,’ Ribery’s lawyer,...

Several decades have passed since the West stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness. But for transsexuals, that kind of milestone has been elusive — until now. Last month, France became the first country in the world to remove transsexualism...

A fire in an apartment in the southern French city of Nimes killed five people on New Year’s Day and left 13 others injured, police said. The five dead had been living in the same apartment on the top floor of the six-storey building. Several of...