France’s external intelligence agency has been intercepting international communications for the last couple of years, a new investigation reveals. The findings of a weeks-long investigation carried out by the French daily Le Nouvel Observateur, published on Wednesday, show that France’s Directorate-General for External Security, known by its French acronym DGSE, has been spying on the... 

Bastia’s French Goalkeeper Alphonse Areola makes a save during the French L1 football match Bastia (SCB) vs Marseille (OM), on August 9, 2014 at the Armand Cesari stadium in Bastia. Clashes prior to and after a football game on the island of Corsica in France have injured 44 police officers. The game took place between Bastia and Olympique de Marseille in the Stade Armand Cesari on Saturday.... 

France declares war on illegal migrants. Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies. French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes. One hundred... 

Heavily armed and dressed in black from head to toe, an elite squad of balaclava-clad police commandos storm the homes of suspected Islamic extremists. Officers arrested ten terror suspects in a series of dawn raids across France this morning in a nationwide crackdown a month after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman. The DCRI domestic intelligence service, supported by police... 

A cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 14, 2012. Various reports say between three and eight people have been killed and at least 40 others injured as an Italian cruise liner with over 4,000 people on board hit a sandbar off the Italian coast. The rescue operation is underway with 69 people missing. Over 4,000 people, including 3,200 passengers,... 

The world’s largest virus has been discovered off the coast of Las Cruces, Chile. Appropriately named Megavirus chilensis, it is about 10 to 20 times larger than the average virus and 6.5% bigger than its nearest competitor, the Mimivirus. The Megavirus measures about .7 micrometers (thousandths of a millimeter) in diameter and is an oddity among its virus brethren, which are usually smaller... 

France, Marseille: Pupils wait for entering their classroom at Fraissinet school, on the first day of the school year. Parents and teachers across France are up in arms over new textbooks which carry accounts of French history revised to avoid insulting ethnic minority pupils. They say common sense has been sacrificed to political correctness in French schools. ­Natives of France now fear their identity... 

France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing “Islamism” and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s national flag. French far-right party the Front National (FN) has revealed its latest election poster – a map of France decked in Algerian national colours, covered with minarets and featuring...