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/ 18 September 2010
France reached the Davis Cup final after Mickael Llodra and Arnaud Clement beat Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos on Saturday.
The European Union may take legal action against France for the way it has handled the expulsion of Roma migrants.
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/ 14 September 2010
Rights groups accused France of inciting racial hatred after media published a memorandum ordering police to prioritise the dismantling of Roma camps.
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/ 13 September 2010
Claude Chabrol, one of France’s most eminent film directors and a pioneer of the influential New Wave style, died on Sunday at the age of 80.
For 30 years after the death of Alfred Hitchcock, the French film-maker Claude Chabrol near single-handedly kept alive a genre.
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/ 8 September 2010
France beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifier on Tuesday as Portugal went down 1-0 in Norway.
Former Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died of cancer at the age of 50.
Former Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died of cancer at the age of 50.
France says that insults in the Iranian media against first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who has been branded an "Italian prostitute", are unacceptable.
France’s crackdown on its foreign Roma population, and their forced repatriation, has come under fire.
Striker Nicolas Anelka has been banned for 18 games by the French team after a players’ Soccer World Cup revolt.
President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Friday that France would strip the French nationality from foreign-born criminals who use violence against police.
A French mother has admitted killing eight newborn babies, investigators said, as a shocked nation struggled to digest the grisly tragedy.
The suspected parents of eight newborn babies whose remains were found in gardens in a French village appeared before a magistrate on Thursday.
President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that France would avenge the murder of a French aid worker killed by al-Qaeda’s North African wing.
A year after taking the opportunity to show his strength to win the Tour de France, Alberto Contador claimed his third title by hiding his weaknesses.
Andy Schleck must produce the time trial ride of his career in Saturday’s penultimate Tour de France stage if he is to deny Spaniard Alberto Contador.
Alberto Contador took a step towards a third yellow jersey win after matching a series of attacks from Andy Schleck on the Tour de France on Thursday.
Andy Schleck is planning to attack Tour de France rival Alberto Contador in a bid to take back the yellow jersey on the Col du Tourmalet on Thursday.
France international footballers Frank Ribery and Karim Benzema were charged with having had sex with an under-age prostitute on Tuesday.
Pierrick Fedrigo held off the threat of Lance Armstrong to hand the hosts their sixth success on the Tour de France 16th stage on Tuesday.
Alberto Contador grabbed the Tour de France’s yellow jersey on Monday after a broken chain slowed down Andy Schleck.
Tour de France leader Andy Schleck said his main rival, Alberto Contador, should be worried after failing to shake him off in Sunday’s 14th stage.
French scientists have shone new light on the technique that allowed Leonardo da Vinci to give the Mona Lisa such an extraordinary delicate charm.
French striker Thierry Henry on Thursday confirmed that he has retired from international football after making 123 appearances for France.
The return of cycling’s greatest comeback man to the Tour de France has not gone to script
Nicolas Anelka on Thursday said that all his teammates decided to go on strike at the World Cup after he was sent home for verbally abusing his coach.
Sergio Paulinho gave Lance Armstrong’s team RadioShack their first victory in the Tour de France when he won the 10th stage on Wednesday.
Tour de France leader Andy Schleck is working to turn up the pressure on Alberto Contador they lock into a two-way battle for supremacy.
Rested after a day off, the Tour de France riders get back to serious climbing in the 209km ninth stage to St Jean de Maurienne on Tuesday.
Lance Armstrong was looking forward to the end of the Tour de France and it came much sooner than expected.
The usual suspects for honours are likely to be cautious when the Tour de France enters the Alps on Sunday but the mind games have already started.