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Shortly before nightfall, an Afghan farmer slipped into this NATO outpost with a bag of ammunition and gear he'd collected from nearby Taliban positions. It turned out not to be much: pieces of 82-millimeter mortar guns and some combat food rations.
A mysterious missive apparently written by a French-speaking woman to her married lover has washed onto a British beach and into the imagination of the U.K. media.
French prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation to examine syringes found in medical waste containers during the Tour de France.
The Canadian military plans to hire a Colorado woman to teach some of its soldiers to speak French — one of Canada's official languages.
Thousands gathered in downtown Belgrade on Wednesday to mourn the death of a 28-year-old French soccer fan who was fatally beaten by Serbian hooligans.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that Martinique is free to hold a referendum on greater political autonomy but made clear the island would always belong to France.
In a May 15 story about the launch of the Herschel telescope in the Ariane-5 rocket, The Associated Press erroneously reported it was the largest telescope ever. The Herschel is the largest telescope ever launched into space.
Jorge Lorenzo won the French Grand Prix on Sunday to take the overall Moto GP championship lead from Valentino Rossi, whose decision to make an early tire change backfired when he fell on the Le Mans circuit.
Marilyn French, the writer and feminist whose novel "The Women's Room" sold more than 20 million copies and transformed her into a leading figure in the women's movement, has died at 79.
Teenager Lauren Embree has earned her first berth in a Grand Slam tournament by winning a French Open qualifying event held by the U.S. Tennis Association.
An Art Deco remnant of the Paris subway system has sold for $27,500 at auction.
Union leaders said Wednesday they are ending a monthlong strike on the French Caribbean island of Martinique after reaching agreement with employers on a pay raise.
Unions in Guadeloupe scored a victory in getting a deal to raise some workers' salaries, but said Friday they will not end a general strike now concluding its sixth week on the French Caribbean island.
Masked demonstrators blocked a highway on Guadeloupe on Friday as another day of negotiations ended without agreement over proposals by France's president to quell violent, racially tinged unrest over wages on the Caribbean island.
About 3,000 mourners on Sunday turned the funeral for a labor-union activist killed in Guadeloupe into a political demonstration, calling out for higher wages and respect from the French government.
NATO says that hundreds of French troops have been deployed to train and mentor Afghan security forces in southern Afghanistan.
A 33-year-old unemployed man appeared in a London court Thursday, charged with the brutal stabbing murders of two French students.
A French man allegedly involved in the theft of paintings by Claude Monet and two other artists has been charged in the U.S. with attempting to broker the sale of the stolen art to undercover FBI agents, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Felipe Massa of Ferrari won the French Grand Prix on Sunday and moved top of the overall standings after his third F1 victory of the season.
The world cycling governing body suspended the French federation for the rest of the year for a breach of rules.
In an April 16 story about France's entry in the Eurovision song contest, The Associated Press reported erroneously that France has won the competition 14 times. Songs in the French language have won 14 times, five of them winning entries from France.
A singer representing France at next month's Eurovision song contest said Thursday that he is ready to add French lyrics to his mostly English-language tune to calm an uproar.
France's last remaining veteran of World War I died Wednesday at age 110 after outliving 8.4 million Frenchmen who fought in what they called "la Grande Guerre."
State legislators passed a law Saturday that would require adults who French kiss a child younger than 13 to register as a sex offender.
France finds lost spy file on young HitlerSecret French intelligence service documents on the young Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the country's national archives, daily Le Monde reported on Friday.
DAWN.COM | World | Thirty years on, Mecca mosque siege reverberatesRIYADH: Thirty years ago, as tens of thousands of hajj pilgrims were completing dawn prayers inside Mecca, gunshots pierced the sanctity of the Grand Mosque.
Hébert: New citizenship guide: Good, bad and ugly - thestar.comMONTREAL Reading the 1995 edition of the federal Citizenship guide, an immigrant to Canada might have been forgiven for thinking he or she was signing up to join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides.
French police prevent teen high school massacre The boy's parents raised the alarm when they realised he had taken the family gun from their house near Beauvais, north of Paris, and was headed to his school in Beauvais itself, officials said.
DAWN.COM | World | Musharraf accused of letting terrorism wound festerPARIS: Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan was among Al Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years of efforts against terrorism.
Celine Dion not pregnant, despite early reportDion and her husband, Rene Angelil, did not immediately announce that she was not pregnant, but in an article published Wednesday in French-language newspaper Le Journal de Montreal, Angelil confirmed that Dion is not pregnant after all.
French women don't get fat, but they do get work-life balance Mireille Guiliano "I see it in France. Quality of life remains essential to the French and they are unified on what this means. Work should be something you can take some pleasure in – for the simple reason that it gives you more equilibrium with which to enjoy life.
Nine E-Readers to Gawk At - Photo Essays - TIMEPhoto Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.
Brains: the secret to better schools - thestar.comFrench neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Karachi bombing accused acquittedA Pakistani court has acquitted a man sentenced to death in the June 2002 Sheraton hotel bombing which killed 11 French engineers in Karachi.
BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Al-Qaeda-link' Cern worker heldFrance has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said. The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday.
Pirates held after mistakenly targeting warshipSomali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said.
Somali pirates attack French military flagship - Yahoo! NewsMaybe we should use cruise ships and tankers loaded with marines and armored as decoys. Let the Somali pirates come to us instead of searching them out. The French are brilliant!
French gay soccer team snubbed by Muslim teamA French gay soccer team says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.
Aer Lingus crew play wrong message saying plane about to ditchAer Lingus cabin crew caused chaos on a Dublin to Paris flight by accidentally playing a message in French which warned that the plane was about to make an emergency landing.
Neo-Nazism is on the rise in Europe. It is not a problem that is going way. The U.S. is part of a global society. We all know what happened when we tried to ignore this problem the last time. We must not do that again.
Naked pictures of French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy set for New York exhibitNew Yorkers are going to see Carla Bruni Sarkozy as most people never have before - in the nude.
Teacher fined $1,450 for biting preschoolerA French court has fined a preschool teacher $1,450 for biting the cheek of an allegedly unruly 4-year-old during a bathroom break.
I have driven the route so many times I could drive it blind folded. The 169 down towards the old home town and for the past oh I would say ten years or so, I have driven by Cafe Suzette. Always wondering, wishing I had time to stop.
New school year puts French on forced marriage alertPARIS (Reuters) - As thousands of girls and young women prepare to start the new school year in France, activists are sounding the alarm over those who are missing -- teenagers sent abroad over the holidays and forced into marriage.
What does it mean to be an American? Unlike most other nations on Earth, the American nation is not strictly defined in terms of race or ethnicity or ancestry or religion. Being an American is not "simply" defined by anything it seems.
'Miracle' crash girl survived 13 hours at seaDespite a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl clung to the wreckage of a plane for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, authorities said Wednesday.
French agent kills captors, escapes in SomaliaA French security agent kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia has escaped, reportedly by killing three of his captors, Somali officials said Wednesday.
Tourist imprisoned in French town hall A young British woman was locked in the town hall of a small French town overnight after mistaking the "hôtel de ville" for a "hotel".
Revolutionary Romanticism: 'The Raft of the Medusa' brought energy to French art A wonderful exploration of the Gericault painting depicting the 1816 wreck of the naval frigate Medusa. Meticulous, poetic, and with plenty of context (historical and otherwise), this is a wonderful read, especially for those of us who can't get to view the painting itself.
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