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San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Nov 27, 11:24 am ET
The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 7:40 am ET
Strike action kept the landmark Pompidou modern art centre shut for a fifth day Friday as culture ministry unions threatened to close down the Louvre and other Paris museums to protest planned job cuts.
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Newsday - Fri Nov 27, 10:06 am ET
Putin: French electricity giant EDF to join Gazprom in backing South Stream gas pipeline
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 9:41 am ET
Paris - France and Russia agreed Friday on a broad modernization partnership for the energy and automobile industries, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. We have achieved a breakthrough, Putin told journalists at the end of the 14th sess...
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 8:35 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- France’s First Lady, the model- turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, agreed to appear in Woody Allen’s next film, according to an interview on Canal Plus television yesterday.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 7:42 am ET
Paris - France and Russia agreed Friday on a broad modernization partnership for the energy and automobile industries, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Rambouillet, some 50 kilometres south-west of Paris. We have achieved a breakthrou...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Wed Nov 25, 7:04 am ET
PARIS - Woody Allen has successfully courted France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The former supermodel and wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy says she's agreed to be in the famed director's next film, but doesn't know what role he has in store for her and admits she could be a terrible actress.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 37 minutes ago
Britain and France on Friday committed to paying developing nations to combat global warming by calling for a 10-billion-dollar climate fund financed by rich countries.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 8:05 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Unions representing French museum workers are threatening to extend and widen a strike that has kept Paris’s Pompidou Center of modern art shut all week.
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WJXT Jacksonville - Wed Nov 25, 7:52 am ET
PARIS -- Woody Allen has successfully courted France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal - Fri Nov 20, 2:33 pm ET
Recently, my students and their parents and I took a trip to Europe.We visited Paris, Avignon, Nîmes and Carcassonne in France and Barcelona, Spain. The highlights of the trip include visits to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Versailles palace and the catacombs in Paris.We also visited some Roman ruins in Nîmes, including a Roman amphitheater where gladiators once fought.In Barcelona ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 4:52 am ET
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is holding talks aimed at deepening business and financial cooperation with France.
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UPI - Wed Nov 25, 3:32 pm ET
LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Carla Bruni, a singer and model as well as the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, confirmed she has landed a role in Woody Allen's upcoming film.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 9:40 pm ET
Blessed by the privilege of wealth, birth or both, 24 teenage girls on Saturday descend on Paris' debutantes ball, an aristocratic tradition that survived France's guillotining of royalty over 200 years ago.
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Bloomberg - Sat Nov 21, 11:51 am ET
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval rating fell in November close to the lowest since his 2007 election, an Ifop poll for French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche showed.