There are claims that Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and his team Astana were given an easy ride during dope tests at the 2009 event.
Roman Polanski’s arrest on a 32-year-old charge of having sex with a minor has outraged the French government and film community, reports Jon Henley.
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/ 29 September 2009
French rugby could soon benefit from a raft of top-class South Africans playing in the Top 14 and being eligible for selection for Les Bleus.
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/ 21 September 2009
Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin assailed Nicolas Sarkozy as he went on trial Monday on charges of plotting to smear his arch-rival.
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/ 21 September 2009
Renault were on Monday handed a suspended ban from Formula One for ordering Nelson Piquet to crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
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/ 21 September 2009
Dominique de Villepin went on trial on Monday, accused of conspiring to smear Nicolas Sarkozy in 2004 and wreck his chances of becoming president.
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/ 14 September 2009
The French military on Monday denied claims that its forces were involved in a raid on a village in an Islamist-controlled area of southern Somalia.
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/ 14 September 2009
France’s most politically charged trial of the decade begins in a week, but the case is already playing itself out in the court of public opinion.
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/ 10 September 2009
Sir Alex Ferguson has reacted angrily to claims by French club Le Havre that Manchester United illegally poached a young player from their club.
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/ 8 September 2009
He has been mocked for wearing stacked heels, but now Nicolas Sarkozy is at the centre of a new controversy.
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/ 3 September 2009
French commuters ran head-on into a local political stand-off this week after feuding towns redirected road markings.
France wants to launch an expanded effort to find the missing wreckage and flight recorders of the Air France jet which crashed in June.
Half a dozen new cases of "exploding iPhones" emerged in France on Wednesday, as Apple faced an official inquiry.
A French security guard said on Tuesday he had received a face full of glass when the screen of his iPhone exploded.
Nicolas Sarkozy was to confront Paris bank executives on Tuesday in a bid to convince taxpayers he is serious about cracking down on traders’ bonuses.
Germany beat Azerbaijan 2-0 to move ahead in its World Cup qualifying group on Wednesday, while France laboured to a 1-0 win over the Faroe Islands.
After an absence of nearly a century, Atlantic salmon have returned to France’s Seine River, researchers said.
President Nicolas Sarkozy left a Paris hospital on Monday after overnight tests gave him a clean bill of health despite his collapse the day before.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the fitness-fanatic French president, was hospitalised on Sunday after he was taken ill during an exercise routine.
Lance Armstrong continued playing mind games with his rival Alberto Contador on Sunday, hinting that he might be the strongest rider on the Tour.
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong missed out on taking the Tour de France leader’s yellow jersey by a fraction of a second on Tuesday.
Cadel Evans endured a test of his yellow jersey credentials on the third stage of the Tour de France which put Lance Armstrong in the limelight.
The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month was not destroyed in mid-air but hit the water intact, French investigators say.
Turkey blocked Europe’s candidate to head Nato, souring a summit marking the military alliance’s 60th anniversary.
My son Luca was about three days old when the pretty nurse left a white slip of paper on my hospital bed. "What’s this?" I said, confused.
Opposition leaders piled pressure on French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday to boost low wages and cap executive bonuses.
The French government has been accused of "Big Brother" tactics over an anti-piracy Bill which aims to punish people who repeatedly download music.
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/ 14 February 2009
World number one Serena Williams pulled out of the Paris Open before her semifinal against Russian Elena Dementieva with a right knee injury.
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/ 13 February 2009
European new cars sales fell 27% in January to the lowest level for 20 years, trade data showed on Friday.
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/ 31 January 2009
From the creator of <i>Persepolis</i> to cutting-edge artists from South Africa, authors joined fans in France for the world’s biggest comic showcase.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s controversial cultural revolution of the country’s television industry began on Monday night.
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/ 16 December 2008
Police found a bundle of dynamite in a major Paris department store on Tuesday after Agence France-Presse received a letter from an unknown group.