Investigators are following the trail of a 20-year-old Frenchman born in Chechnya who rampaged through a festive Paris neighborhood slashing passers-by with a...
More than 200,000 people have fled fighting in west Mosul since the operation to retake the area from extremists was launched last month, Iraq's ministry of...
Iraqi security forces have seized control of more than a third of west Mosul, a commander said Sunday, after a week of steady gains in their battle to retake...
Paris, the world's style capital, is finally to get its first permanent museum dedicated to fashion.
Three quarters of a million civilians living in west Mosul are at "extreme risk", the United Nations warned Tuesday as Iraqi forces prepared for a push into...
Crafty winemakers throughout the ages have sought sneaky ways to pass off low-grade plonk as top vintages.
The commander of the Iraqi special forces who are spearheading the offensive to recapture the ISIS stronghold of Mosul said Thursday that they had gained a...
ISIS is forcibly gathering people in and around Mosul for possible use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces, residents said Wednesday, confirming...
The city of Paris Monday voted to ban cars along a stretch of the River Seine as part of an anti-pollution drive.
HSBC has received a number of offers from Lebanese banks to sell its retail operations in Lebanon, a source said Thursday.
Rome has given birth to an ambitious “vanishing” artwork with William Kentridge’s completion of a giant frieze of the city’s “heroic and shameful” history...
Niger began voting in an election Sunday in which President Mahamadou Issoufou is running for a second term with a promise to crush Islamist militants and...
The City of Light is not just one of Europe’s most beautiful capitals. Because of its small size, just 8 kilometers, Paris is also perfect for exploring on...
Authorities rescued Monday 18 young campers who were stranded on a river bank north of Beirut after their inflatable boat deflated due to a tear.
The 2012 premier crus from Burgundy’s Chablis region are almost all on the market now, their quality testament to the ever-increasing amount of effort being...
Two sides in conflict over whether there should be limits to the liberty of self-expression clashed violently in a usually tranquil side street on the Right...
Serbia unveiled plans Friday to redevelop the Belgrade waterfront, aiming to make the capital a tourism and business hub, in a controversial 3 billion euro...
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction,” said Pablo Picasso, a fitting aphorism for the five-year renovation of the Picasso Museum in Paris...
You know that dream you have of being invited into someone’s home while traveling in, say, Paris, and being served the most delicious meal? Bistroy Les...
Displaced by a massive fire, Notre Dame Cathedral's Paris parishioners are gathering to celebrate Easter in another church and to pray for a speedy...