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.

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.

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.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled an ambitious, costly new plan to rethink the structure of Paris and its troubled suburbs.

The presumed leader of a group of 27 young people charged with participating in the torture and killing of a young French Jew took his seat in juvenile court Wednesday with the defiant declaration, “Allah will be victorious.”

Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton said Wednesday he will resign from the French bank, saying repeated attacks on him were a threat to the bank’s health.