Our Focus programme brings you exclusive reports from around the world, followed by comment and analysis from our newsroom in Paris. Monday to Friday, at 7:15 am and 9:15 pm.
The agricultural sector has been particularly hard hit by the credit crisis. FRANCE 24 takes a closer look and reports from Spain, where farmers are set to stage a strike this Friday in protest at plunging prices.
Thierry Henry's controversial handball in France's match against Ireland on Wednesday gave Les Bleus a place in South Africa next year. But it has also sparked a debate: does the sport need video to catch cheating instead of a referee's naked eye?
Tonight, leaders from the European Union's 27 member states are getting together in Brussels to pick the first-ever permanent President. How will the leaders be making the decision?
The US has voiced dismay at the approval of new settlement builds in annexed east Jerusalem, which once again stalls the fragile Mideast peace process. Tensions are already high ahead of upcoming presidential elections in the Palestinian territories.
French lawmakers are debating the issue of repeat sex offenders, and considering a proposal for prisoners to be given the option of longer jail terms or undergoing hormonal treatment. Focus also looks at how other countries handle this problem.
The presidents of China and the US have both vowed to fight protectionism and heal the imbalance in their economic relations, but it is still unclear how they plan to bridge a growing rift on trade.
In Pakistan where the food crisis is worsening, the government has decided to lease hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland to Saudi Arabia, which would be used to produce food for the Saudi market.
Since the clashes before and after the Algeria-Egypt football match on Saturday in Cairo, Egyptian businesses in Algeria have been attacked. The decisive second leg of the World Cup qualifier, on Wednesday in Khartoum, promises to be tense.
Voters went to the polls Sunday to elect local councilors and town mayors in what was Kosovo's first election as an independent state. Focus takes the opportunity to examine this landmark vote which is a crucial test for Kosovo.
Six weeks after the killing of opposition supporters at a rally in Conakry, an interview with the head of the military junta Captain Camara and opposition leader Jean Marie Dore, who is staying in the country to oppose the junta, despite the dangers.
Former West Berlin policeman Karl Heinz Kurras, soon on trial for weapons possession, gained infamy after his shooting of a student led to the 1968 youth riots. But his work for the Stasi secret service could shed light on Germany's secretive past.
As a mass inoculation campaign against the H1N1 flu virus kicks off across France, opinion polls show that most French people will not vaccinate because they fear possible side effects.
In the name of anti-guerrilla warfare, Colombian paramilitary forces spread terror in the countryside over two decades. Their units now disbanded, some have gone back to the sites of the killings to repent.
Angela Merkel has become the first German chancellor to attend commemorations of the end of Word War I in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, celebrating the close partnership between two former foes.
Since 2001, the international community has spent at least 30 billion dollars on development projects in Afghanistan. But there are growing fears that much of the money has gone to waste.
