A scarred, crippled man wearing not one but two hearing aids hobbled painfully to the rostrum with the help of a pair of canes. A tail-coated usher darted forward to help hoist him to the speaker’s ...

To confront her crippling fear of heights, journalist Eva Holland jumped out of an airplane and learned to rock climb. But while she endured these experiments with a semblance of aplomb, she found ...

PARIS (AP) — They creep, they crawl, they feast on your blood as you sleep. They may travel in your clothes or backpacks to find another person worth dining on — on the subway, or at the cinema.

The Egyptian government has reportedly restricted the sale of yellow reflective vests out of fear that dissenters might take the lead of the "Gilets Jaunes" protesters wreaking havoc in France. The ...

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On November 20, when the French-Jewish politician Simone Veil (pronounced Vay), 81, was elected to the prestigious Académie Française, her family took the news with typical self-deflating humor. Her ...

Finance Minister Paul Ramadier appealed for “austerity a I’Anglaise.” If France’s motorists would just exercise restraint and “voluntarily” reduce their gasoline consumption by 30% for the next six ...

I’m writing this column from the South of France, where for the past five days I’ve been a member of a Harvard delegation that toured several nuclear facilities operated by AREVA, the French ...

PARIS — The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts ...

France is arming its orbital satellites with lasers and machine guns. “If our satellites are threatened, we envisage blinding those of our enemies,” said Defense Minister Florence Parly. “We will ...