Despite a persistent negative stereotype about French hygiene practices - which at least one historian says has a ring of truth - a study has found that the French may actually be more fastidious than their European neighbours.
A French journalist has accused President Nicolas Sarkozy of inciting hatred against the media after she was allegedly assaulted at a political rally organised by the ruling UMP party.
Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen came top in the first round of the presidential election in the Gard region of France, but will her supporters now back right wing President Nicolas Sarkozy? FRANCE 24 met her local supporters to find out.
FRANCE 24 joined a group of Socialist Party canvassers this week on the streets of Nimes in southern France, the only region where far-right candidate Marine Le Pen came out on top in the presidential election's first round.
The Gard in southern France was the only place far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen got more votes than any other candidate in Sunday’s first presidential election round. Local left-wing supporters are determined to halt Le Pen’s advances.
Two French left-wing newspapers have published damning articles likening President Nicolas Sarkozy to WWII-era leader Marshall Philippe Pétain for wooing far-right voters ahead of the May 6 runoff in the country’s presidential election.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is courting the 6.4 million voters who cast ballots for Marine Le Pen's National Front party last Sunday. But on Wednesday, the incumbent president insisted he would make no deals with the far right.
While President Bashar al-Assad suppresses an uprising in Syria, his first cousin has written a romantic thriller warmly praised by Paris Match which describes Siwar al-Assad as a "modest and sensitive" man.
Burmese opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi looks set to return to the political mainstream as the country votes in by-elections on Sunday that some experts have described as little more than a regime ploy to ease crippling Western sanctions.
The father of Mohamed Mehra, the man who confessed to killing seven people in a 10-day killing spree in south-west France, told FRANCE 24 that he wants to take the French state to court for failing to capture his son alive.
