Robert Ménard, the mayor of Béziers, said that his administration has looked at the list of the town’s school children and tried to work out how many were non-French Muslims by their names. According to Mayor Ménard, 64.6% of the town’s children are Muslim when their names are taken into account. “Sorry to say this, but the mayor has, class by class, the names of the children,” he said... 

A curious move by France, it is possible that Israel may strike Iran by November or that their intelligence network has seen movements by Hezbollah or Iran that indicates that Israel will soon be a target. Militants in Egypt could also be a problem and Israel has so many enemies that their fears could lead to actions that would lead to Israel being completely surrounded in a hostile environment. –... 

French former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seen upon arrival at his lawyer's office in Paris. Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Khan is to be question as a suspect for his participation in an alleged illegal prostitution ring in northern France. Police will question Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday for allegedly participating in a ring that organized sex parties at restaurants... 

From Monday, women wearing the full Islamic veil in France could be fined up to 150 euros and be ordered to attend “re-education” classes. The law has already sparked unrest, with police arresting 61 protestors against the law Saturday in Paris. A controversial law banning full face veils in public places in France came into force on Monday. Critics say the law stigmatises Muslims – while... 

Nicolas Cocaign A French convict who killed his cellmate and ate his lung was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday. Nicolas Cocaign and Thierry Baudry had a fight when Cocaign asked Baudry to wash his hands after he had used the toilet during the night of January 2, 2007. Cocaign strangled Baudry and cut open his chest with a razor blade. Thinking it was the heart, Cocaign then ripped out a... 

Racial conflicts in the French National Soccer team is a luck for Mexico who has humiliated France 2-0, leaving France to be at the bottom of Group A Despite showing to the public an image of racial harmony, nothing seems right anymore in the French national soccer team, due to internal racial conflicts, France is definitively eliminated for the next stage and will be at the bottom of group A, below... 

On Feb. 18, 2010, an army colonel backed by mutinous troops overthrew the government of President Mamadou Tandja. What happened? Will the military junta keep its promises to fight corruption? Will the decade old democracy resist this Coup d’état? Niger is a former French colony so what is France’s position on the seizure of President Mamadou Tandja? Watch video here  Read More »

The Russians were less likely to register marriages with foreigners. However, experts still managed to calculate who among the inhabitants of Earth like most Russians. It turned out that the palm went to residents of neighboring Ukraine. At least , evidenced by the RF Ministry of Justice data presented in the State Duma on Monday at a roundtable on international marriages. According to State Duma... 

Who ratted out First Lady Michelle Obama for getting VIP treatment while shopping in Paris last month with her daughters? That would be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The issue: Getting a store usually closed on Sundays to open for her. The cautious Mrs. Obama, who carries a limited, strategically applied issues portfolio, is now caught up–unwittingly–in a domestic debate in France... 

Robin, France, June 27, 2009 — Nord-éclair — The presence of Gypsies from Romania in the Roubaix area [north of France] has always brought its load of problems, but a new threshold was reached when a difficult arrest was made last Thursday: a young woman grabbed a baby by its foot and used it as a weapon to hit a policeman. Last Thursday, around 6.30 p.m., a police patrol stops a young man driving... 

Professor Alain Carpentier has unveiled the device three decades after the world’s first human heart transplant. The French doctor has described it as the world’s first fully implantable artificial heart and says it could save the lives of thousands of heart patients, many of whom die while waiting for a heart donation. The revolutionary life-size mixture of animal tissue, titanium and...