The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at the two leisure activities, spending more time at table and in bed than many other nati

The French certainly know how to live: A new study says they sleep more than anyone in the world’s most economically developed countries, and eat more, too.

Sri Lanka’s separatist rebels have asked Britain and France to continue pushing for a cease-fire in the island’s civil war after the two European nations’ foreign ministers failed to secure a halt in the fighting to allow civilians to evacuate.

Six players scored for the United States in a 6-2 win over France in second-round play at the ice hockey world championship on Friday.

European workers feeling the pinch of the economic crisis rallied at May Day protests Friday from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul.

The family of a Jewish man tortured and killed in 2006 walked out of a tense Paris trial Thursday in anger over comments by the man accused of murdering him, the family’s lawyer said.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says a French and a Canadian aid worker held hostage in Darfur have been freed.

Sri Lanka’s president rejected Thursday a cease-fire appeal from France and Britain, saying his government was working to protect civilians but that his forces would not end their fight against the Tamil Tigers.

French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has decorated concentration camp survivor and political icon Simone Veil as an officer in the Legion of Honor.