France's Justice Minister Rachida Dati has given birth to a girl, media reports said Friday.

The French government on Monday called for an emergency meeting of the European Union's foreign ministers to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, French officials confirmed.

Despite ranking outside the Top 500 and last playing a match in October, 2006, France's Mary Pierce says she is not ready to call time on her career.

The Paris fashion world has taken note of the parka again and this year they are set to replace down jackets, which were only rediscovered last year.

The French economy is currently in the first of three consecutive quarters of negative growth, the government's statistical office Insee said on Friday.

A mysterious group calling for the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting five sticks of dynamite in a large department store in central Paris, a s

Two people have died and some 90,000 households were without electricity on Monday following a powerful weekend storm that left much of central France buried in snow.

French bank Societe Generale said Monday it had suffered only "negligible" losses in the 50-billion-dollar securities fraud allegedly engineered by a leading Wall Street broker.