Belgian cycling champion Tom Boonen will be allowed to compete in the Tour de France despite testing positive for cocaine in April, after a shock eleventh hour decision by the French Olympic committee.
Tour de France is due to start on July, 4th. The reputation of this competition has been turnished by endless doping affairs: can it come to an end this year?
A family court judge on Friday ordered the parents of a three-year-old Franco-Russian girl at the centre of an international custody battle to come to an agreement before considering their respective demands.
After days of protests at the Marseille airport by angry Comorans following Tuesday’s plane crash off the Comoros islands, Yemenia Airways announced it was suspending flights to and from the Mediterranean port city.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy attended an inter-religious ceremony at a Paris mosque Thursday for victims of the doomed Yemenia flight, which crashed off the Comoros Tuesday.
Why Air France flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa with 228 people on board is still a mystery, but the French bureau leading the investigation said that the plane hit the ocean intact.
After days of protests at the Marseilles airport by angry Comorans following Tuesday’s crash off the Comoros, Yemenia airlines announced it was suspending flights to and from the Mediterranean port city.
Melissa Bell interviews Alison Smale (International Herald Tribune), Guillaume Duval (Alternatives Economiques) , Philip Turle (RFI) and Bruno Jeanbart (Opinion Way) to discuss the launch of the national loan in France.
Melissa Bell interviews Alison Smale (International Herald Tribune), Guillaume Duval (Alternatives Economiques) , Philip Turle (RFI) and Bruno Jeanbart (Opinion Way) to discuss the launch of the national loan in France.
In France, an estimated 60,000 women have been subjected to female genital mutilation, having been circumcised in secrecy in France or sent back to their family's home country.
