After his party's success at parliamentary polls, Islamist moderate Abdelilah Benkirane (pictured) has become Morocco’s new prime minister. A look at the leader’s decades-old quest for power.
Egypt’s first legislative elections since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak are scheduled to begin November 28. The Muslim Brotherhood, former National Democratic Party members, and Tahrir Square militants are already strategising.
Haute couture bad boy John Galliano appears before a French court Wednesday to answer to charges related to anti-Semitic comments he made in a Paris bar. Dropped by Dior, the British designer is expected to blame drug and alcohol addiction.
Some of France's best known chefs combined forces to raise funds for Japanese oyster farmers whose livelihoods were swept away by the tsunami in March. It was the opportunity to return an old favour.
EU ministers have tried to reassure farmers and consumers concerned about the E.coli outbreak that began one week ago but officials have struggled to show signs of progress in identifying the source of the deadly bacteria.
French E-Coli specialist Patricia Mariani explains why it is so hard to pinpoint the exact source of the outbreak of the potentially deadly bacteria which has so far killed 17 people and infected hundreds of others.
Ahead of an expected cabinet reshuffle in France that could see him lose his post, French Prime Minister François Fillon has sought to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy in a rare television interview.
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, and ripe for attention through the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. But with its turbulent recent political history, are these goals just wishful thinking?
France's highest court has held up two previous verdicts banning the "Our Body: The Universe Within" exhibition, making France the first country to ban the controversial human body expo.
Some of the world’s best photojournalists are taking a break from their globetrotting schedules to come to the southern French city of Perpignan for the international photojournalism festival “Visa pour l’image” that runs until September 12.
