Patrick Fort

It has displays covering art, history, dinosaurs, nuclear energy, craftwork and music as well as live animals, for it is also a zoo

After two of its soldiers were killed in the Central African Republic, France's president has told troops their intervention is necessary.

France's president says reinforcements to a UN-mandated force would reach 1 600 troops following sectarian violence in Central African Republic.

Looters of deposed Central African Republic president François Bozizé's home have come across two human skeletons beneath the garage floor.

Some people in the Central African Republic have applauded a cavalcade of Seleka rebels while others remain distrustful after looting by both sides.

Since the coup, Central African Republic's new government has optimistically promised that business will resume soon. But experts are doubtful.

Michel Djotodia has vowed to hand over power at the end of the three-year transition and not contest the Central African Republic's 2016 elections.

Central African Republic strongman Michel Djotodia is preparing to unveil a new government after announcing he would rule by decree.

Onlookers jeered French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday at the state funeral for Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba.

Chadian troops have routed rebel forces advancing from the country's east to the capital, the army chief said on Wednesday.

Multimillionaires Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal may be upset over ATP reforms, but their problems are nothing compared with those encountered by tennis players in Iraq. Even putting together a team for next month's Davis Cup Group IV Asia/Oceania tie in Burma is an achievement, as three of their group were murdered last August.

Saddam Hussein is dead, but memories of the grandiose excesses of his 24-year reign live on in his resplendent palaces still used by the United States forces that deposed him in 2003. The late dictator built eight ornate presidential palaces across Iraq that embodied absolute power.