World Oct 09 Families seek truth as Airbus, Air France face trial over 2009 crash Aviation industry heavyweights Airbus and Air France are charged with manslaughter in a trial that opens Monday over the crash of Flight 447 on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people aboard.
World Jun 29 Lone surviving attacker in 2015 Paris attacks gets life in prison, no parole The only surviving attacker from the 2015 terrorist massacre at the Bataclan theater and other sites in Paris has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. That is the most severe sentence possible…
Arts Jan 19 French actor Gaspard Ulliel dies in skiing collision French actor Gaspard Ulliel has died after a skiing accident in the Alps, according to his agent's office.
World Sep 30 French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy convicted in campaign financing case It is the first time in France's modern history that a former president has been convicted and sentenced to a prison term for actions during his term.
World Sep 08 Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Politics Jun 22 France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy faces jail term in campaign financing trial The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has concluded in Paris, after a month during which the court sought to determine whether he broke laws on campaign financing in his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid.
World May 25 Police hunt suspect after explosion in French city of Lyon French police were on Saturday hunting a suspect believed to have deposited a paper bag containing an explosive device that went off, wounding 13 people in a busy pedestrian street in the city of Lyon the previous day.
World Apr 18 France pays tribute to firefighters who saved Notre Dame As the ceremonies took place, construction workers hurriedly secured key sections of the fire-weakened cathedral, including an area above one of its famed rose-shaped windows.
World Apr 17 Doubts rise over Macron’s 5-year plan to rebuild Notre Dame Nearly $1 billion in donations have poured in for the vast restoration of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral — but a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that it will be completed within five years was facing accusations of being…
World Mar 07 French court convicts cardinal of not reporting child abuse French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin said Thursday he will offer his resignation to Pope Francis, after a court found him guilty of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a priest.