A Year After Blaze, Notre Dame Restoration Halted by Virus April 16, 2020 By Elaine Ganley PARIS — The Cathedral of Notre Dame stands crippled and alone, locked in a dangerous web of twisted scaffolding one...
Insurers Expect France to Bear Notre-Dame Rebuilding Cost April 16, 2019 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Paul Arnold Major European insurers expect France to bear the bulk of the cost of rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral after a fire...
France’s National Railway Denies Neglected Maintenance in Fatal Crash July 8, 2014 France’s national railway is denying that neglected maintenance on the train tracks led to a fatal derailment last year that...
Mechanical Error May Have Caused French Crash July 15, 2013 By BASTIEN INZAURRALDE and SARAH DiLORENZO An official says a faulty rail joint may have caused a train derailment outside Paris that left six people dead....
Depardieu Skips Drunk Driving Hearing in France January 9, 2013 By THOMAS ADAMSON and LORI HINNANT In the last three days, Gerard Depardieu met with Vladimir Putin to get Russian citizenship, got a prime seat at...
2 Injured in Steam Blast at French Nuclear Plant September 6, 2012 France’s electricity utility says that two people have suffered slight hand burns in a blast of steam at the country’s...
6 Die in Retirement Home Fire in Southern France December 15, 2011 The local government office says a fire in a retirement home in the southern French port city of Marseille has...
Pedestrian Hit by Noiseless Electric Car in France December 8, 2011 A noiseless electric car, lorded for its role in a brand new car-sharing program in the French capital, has knocked...
UK in Sprout Warning After French E.coli Outbreak June 27, 2011 By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and JAMEY KEATEN British officials warned consumers Saturday against eating uncooked sprouts after authorities in France linked seeds distributed by an English vendor...
New E.coli Outbreak in France Hits Children June 16, 2011 By Pierre Savary Eight children have been admitted to hospital in northern France after eating beef burgers infected with a strain of E.coli...