Members of France’s Roma, Gypsy and traveller minorities blocked a major highway outside Bordeaux on Sunday after hundreds of them were kicked out of an illegal campsite. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has in recent weeks launched a...

French police moved in Friday to clear an illegal Gypsy encampment for the first time since President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a crackdown on the minority group. Officers sealed off the area around a camp in the central city of Saint-Etienne,...

Judges at The Hague handed down two rare genocide convictions Thursday, sentencing two security officers for the Bosnian Serb Army to life in prison for their roles in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst single episode in a decade of war that left...

Like the generous French vacations, plentiful holidays, and a 35-hour work week, the lowest retirement age in Europe has been seen as nearly a sacred right by French workers since 1983, when Socialist President François Mitterrand reduced it from 65 to...

Ugly words on the playground were his first hurtful clue. At age 12, a furtive glance at a medical record deepened Jean-Jacques Delorme’s doubts about who he was. Throughout adulthood, he unearthed relics of his long-hidden history. He was the...

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 arrested in yesterday’s dawn raids on 12 trucks just before they set off for a...

The possible – or even probable – appointment of a 23-year-old Paris law student to run Europe’s largest office development has generated a storm of protest and mockery in France, including an 8,000-name petition on the internet. According to...

Embarrassed officials were at a loss to explain how Jean-Pierre Treiber, 45, a double murder suspect, managed to elude detection in the box he had built himself at a workshop in the high security prison of Auxerre, Burgundy. With its hidden human...

Three Italian female academics are calling on Gordon Brown’s wife, Sarah, President Obama’s wife, Michele and other leaders’ spouses not to attend the gathering in L’Aquila, which will be hosted by the Italian prime...

President George W. Bush holds talks on Saturday with European leaders hoping to pave the way for an overhaul of the global financial regulatory system, amid growing evidence the world is sliding toward recession.The White House has played down...