By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 09 October 2007 The 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany for discoveries that have helped fuel explosive growth in the storage capacity of computer hard...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 September 2007 The international community is offering a mixed reaction to French proposals that the European Union should impose its own economic sanctions on Iran, if it continues to pursue its nuclear program - and to prepa...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 12 September 2007 Man at the genocide cemetary of Kigali, Rwanda (file photo) A French appeals court is examining a demand to send two Rwandan genocide suspects to the International Criminal Tribunal in Tanzania. Lisa Bryant has...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 08 September 2007 Civil society groups are marching in Niger's capital Saturday to demand that the French nuclear energy company, Areva, quit mining Niger's uranium. The march comes after months of government accusations that the...
By Steve Herman Pondicherry, India 03 September 2007 India has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of its independence from the British Raj. But the British were not the only colonizers on the subcontinent in the mid-20th century. While the Union J...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 26 July 2007 France's newly elected president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is visiting Senegal Thursday. It is his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa as president. Mr. Sarkozy was widely criticized during his campaign for controversial stat...
By Anita Elash Paris 25 July 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in LibyaWednesday to meet with Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi in Tripoli. Mr. Sarkozy agreed to the visit as part of a deal made Tuesday to free six medical workers convicted o...
A French soccer legend got a hero's-welcome-home today whether he deserve d it or not . Zinedine Zidane and his teammates -the World Cup runners-up , made a brief appearance in Paris with French President Jacques Chirac before a flag-waving crowd. Ch...
By Phuong Tran Nouakchott, Mauritania 13 July 2007 French engineer Jean Sahuc arrived in West Africa in the early 1950's to oversee the building of Mauritania's capital. Almost 50 years after he laid the first foundation stones in Nouakchott, Sahuc t...
By Anita Elash Paris 18 May 2007 Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy has named his new government. It's a much smaller cabinet than before, and half the jobs went to women. Anita Elash reports for VOA from Paris. Ever since his election as...