Tokyo - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has risked causing a minor diplomatic incident with Japan by not holding a bilateral meeting with the country's prime minister during the Group of Eight sum

With the intention to understand climatic changes and the tropical weather

Washington/Quebec City - The works of a 17th-century military engineer that helped defend France's western, northern and eastern borders were recognized Monday as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

Paris - The liberation of Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was the result of long and complex negotiations, and not a spectacular "Hollywood" ploy, the French online news daily MediaPa

Cannes, France- Europe should take complete control of migration into and out of the continent, working with the rest of the world to end illegal migration and manage legal flows, EU justice ministers said Monday at the opening of an informal meeting.
"We are not turning Europe into a bunker, but we are steering migrant flows in the world," German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said ahead of talks with EU counterparts in the southern French beach resort of Cannes.
"We cannot leave all these questions of migrant flows in disorder, we have to organize (them)," EU Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot said.