France is preparing to deport hundreds of foreign Gypsies as part of a drive to clamp down on lawbreaking by Roma, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Tuesday. The deportations, scheduled to start Thursday, follow the dismantling of 51 illegal...

French police have fined a woman driver for erratic driving caused by her Islamic headscarf, just weeks after a similar incident sparked a major political row. Police in Vaucluse in southern France had not stopped the driver for wearing the niqab, a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended Israel’s blockade of Gaza as essential to its national security and stated that it will remain in force, as Israel deports all 600 foreign activists detained aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

A lone thief is believed to have carried out one of the most daring – and lucrative – art heists in history yesterday. The ‘burly man’ stole masterpieces worth tens of millions of pounds from a Paris gallery in an early morning raid. He broke...

France’s dual world recordbreaking swimmer Alain Bernard said on Monday that boycotting of the opening ceremony at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August would send an important message.