A new documentary about Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was described Tuesday as having 'never before seen images' showing the journey his body took, and its treatment, after he was killed.
Stéphane Hessel, French resistance hero and author of the best-selling booklet "Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous" gives Melissa Bell his point of view on movements such as "Occupy Wall Street" or Spain’s Indignados. He tells us that the real question is how these movements can translate in something more long-term.
Some 313 letters written by General Charles de Gaulle in the first years of the Second World War reveal an “embattled, lonely and often angry” man obsessed with restoring France’s glory his way.
Two stories dominate today's French papers: government monitoring of a Le Monde journalist, and the use of a tram to remove Roma people from a camp. Both fuel debate about President Nicolas Sarkozy’s handling of domestic issues. That’s the focus for this review of the French press, Friday 2nd September 2011.
French fashion legend Coco Chanel (pictured) spied for the Nazis during Germany's occupation of France, according to a new book by Hal Vaughan, an American journalist and former diplomat.
As Robert Capa's photo editor at Life Magazine, John G. Morris describes June 6, 1944 and the nerve-wracking wait for the first pictures from the D-Day landing.
91-year-old John Demjanjuk, convicted Thursday of being an accessory to the murder of more than 28,000 people in a Nazi death camp, will be released pending an appeal of his five-year prison sentence.
A German court Thursday found John Demjanjuk, 91, guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a guard in a Nazi death camp during World War II and sentenced him to five years in prison. The defence says it will appeal.
France 24 brings you an exclusive report on a French military victory in Afghanistan's Kapisa valley. An excavation is underway in Tokyo, which may reveal grisly secrets from World War Two. And we take a close look at a clinic offering rare and controversial treatment with embryonic stem cells.
Augustin Trapenard talks about contemporary French literature, with two novels that have just been translated into English. Anne Wiazemsky's
"My Berlin Child" and Tristan Garcia's "Hate: A Romance" - a bold, ambitious, and stunning debut novel.
