French lawmakers ok plan for more English at universities

France's lower house will start debating a proposal on Wednesday to introduce more courses in English at universities, amid a storm of controversy in a nation fiercely protective of its identity. The measure, which would also introduce lessons in other ...

Next week, the Russian parliament's lower house is going to consider some amendments to laws concerning adoption of Russian children by foreigners. This is done in connection with a law legalizing same-sex marriages, which was adopted in France on ...

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Hollywood star Brad Pitt is reportedly obsessed with French jam and is said to have even designated a room in his house to store his favourite delicacy. The 49-year-old and his partner Angelina Jolie are known to have loaded cupboards with jam in both their ...

An official says a convicted terrorist in France has escaped house arrest in a stolen car.

France's upper house Senate voted on Friday to adopt a landmark bill granting homosexual couples the right to marry and adopt, after a heated debate and protests from conservatives and religious groups.

The label, from the house of French company Cattier, also found its place in Oprahs favourite things for 2011.

The Elysee Palace will put 12,000 bottles from its wine cellar up for bids this week at the Drouot auction house in Paris in order to substitute them with more modest wines, with a 1990 Pomerol Petrus valued at 2,200 euros (about $2,800) having the highest ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A Paris auction house is facing a court hearing aimed at halting the controversial sale of a trove of antique tribal masks revered as sacred ritual artifacts by a Native American tribe in Arizona, an international tribal advocacy group ...