BERLIN — France and Denmark on Monday became the latest countries affected by Germany’s tainted food scare, in which pig and chicken feed were contaminated with dioxin and traces were found in exported food products.

Seven people connected to a French nuclear company in Niger were kidnapped early Thursday near the country’s uranium-rich mining zone. A French Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, said the seven, including five French citizens, were kidnapped...

French officials have condemned a senior soldier who was filmed threatening a Togolese journalist. In a video released on YouTube, Lt Col Romuald Letondot is shown ordering the journalist to delete images from his camera during a protest in Lome. When...

Trade union leaders said the marches were the first step in a long struggle to defend the retirement age, which was reduced in a trademark reform of late Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. The current government, struggling to bring its swollen...

France has been stunned by the fate of la petite Typhaine, a little girl lost in a disturbing saga of parental brutality, brazen lies and the failings of the social safeguards which are meant to protect children. The case, which bears striking...

The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey released on Tuesday, incidents of shoplifting rose nearly 6% over the past year,...

France is to adopt a series of measures to ‘reaffirm pride’ in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism. They include everybody receiving lessons in the nation’s Christian history and children singing the national anthem. Using...

A French prosecutor recommended Tuesday that former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin be convicted for his alleged role in a smear campaign against President Nicolas Sarkozy, arguing he should have put an end to rumors swirling about his...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to walk out of the summit of Group of 20 leaders in Pittsburgh next week if there is no agreement on bank bonuses, daily Le Figaro reported on Monday. “If there is no concrete decision, I will...

Will threatening to blow up the factory where you work get you a better severance package? What about staging a “bossnapping,” and attracting TV cameras? These are the questions some French workers have been asking in the last six months....