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.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old specialist in combat stress who had been ordered to deploy to Afghanistan against his will, shot dead 13 people in Fort Hood, USA. Today's Focus looks at how this tragedy happened.
Half way through his five-year mandate, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is struggling to reverse his steady decline in opinion polls. What has gone wrong since his triumphant election two and a half years ago?
Former French President Jacques Chirac is in the spotlight. With a new autobiography just out and a high-profile trial in the works where he stands accused of misappropriating public funds, he is dominating the news agenda in France.
With close to 1000 dispensaries offering diverse strains of medical marijuana, and just as many doctors willing to hand out prescriptions for the drug, Los Angeles has quickly become a marijuana smoker's heaven.
Twelve months after Barack Obama's historic election, many right-wing voters still haven't digested his victory. Our correspondent travelled to West Virginia, a rural state where anti-Obama sentiments run high.
US President Barack Obama has spent much of his first months in office urging Congress to approve a sweeping reform of the country's health care system, but progress has been painfully slow. Our guests in the US and in Paris explain why.
As France's Ministry for Immigration and Integration launches a multimedia debate to define what exactly it is to be French, FRANCE 24 takes a look at what tests immigrants face when they apply to live in France.
After more than a decade of using the stick in relations with Burma's military junta, the administration of US President Barack Obama has shown signs it also intends to use the carrot - at the risk of upsetting exiled Burmese opposition groups.
Afghanistan's election committee has named incumbent Hamid Karzai as the country's elected president, a day after his rival Abdullah Abdullah stood down ahead of a run-off vote. But can Karzai really be a credible president?
As Pakistan's army steps up its offensive against the Taliban, a recent string of devastating attacks in Pakistani cities has led local newspapers to talk of a "black October" and has widened the gap between the country's government and its people.
Only a few weeks after Rio won its bid to host the Olympics Games in 2016, crime levels have become a major concern after a police helicopter was shot down. Since then, almost 50 people have been killed in clashes between police and rival drug gangs.
The Court of Appeal in Paris has called off a sensitive case looking into luxury properties and cars owned by ruling African families in France. The anti-corruption NGO behind the inquiry says it will appeal the decision.
In this Edition: FRANCE 24 looks at the growing human cost of a UN-backed government operation to crack down on rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
French authorities have come under pressure to say what they knew about the illegal sale of arms to Angola in the 1990s after a Paris court slapped jail terms and stiff fines on leading members of the French political and business establishment.
