France has been stunned by the fate of la petite Typhaine, a little girl lost in a disturbing saga of parental brutality, brazen lies and the failings of the social...

Falling short of outright banning the burqa (full Islamic veil), at least for now, France has made a statement that any man whose wife is forced to wear a burqa or...

So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland, admonishes us to practise our faiths with “humble discretion”. To be recommended humble...

Nicolas Sarkozy today voiced sympathy for Switzerland’s controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid...

Are European societies anti-Islam? That’s a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland’s referendum to ban the building of minarets in the...

European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama’s speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming...

Alistair Darling has delivered a blunt warning to the EU’s new French finance chief against meddling with the City of London. As Nicolas Sarkozy gloated over...

“This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” during a news conference by the former US president, before throwing his shoes at him so had he...

This is the moment when British-bound migrants hiding in lorries bound for Dover were flushed out in a police swoop. The two would-be illegal immigrants were among 30...

Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment...

Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate...

Workers are refusing to use the familiar red-and-black devices in anger at Thierry Henry’s cheating, The Sun reports. Some have even defaced the smiling cartoon...

The rule banning women from dressing like men – namely by wearing trousers - was first introduced in 1800 by Paris’ police chief and has survived repeated...

The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...

Nicolas Sarkozy was last night accused of living in ‘total fantasy’ after claiming he was among the first people to tear down the Berlin Wall. In an...

The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out...

Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...

The Conservatives were accused by the French government tonight of “castrating” Britain’s position within the EU by adopting an “autistic”...

For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed,...

It has been billed as a quest for the soul of the Gallic nation: a voyage of discovery, with Nicolas Sarkozy at the helm, to discover the je ne sais quoi that makes...