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Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.

Saturday, November 07, 2009 PARIS: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged France on Friday not to block Turkey's bid to join the European Union, saying his country holds the key to a new relationship with the Muslim world.

A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona.

France puts curbs on bankers' bonuses France's President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a news conference attended by Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, following a meeting with bank leaders at the Elysee Palace, August 25, 2009.

Earlier this week, France learned that Claude Levi-Strauss, a leading anthropologist and a member of the elite Academie Francaise, had died aged 100.

French minister Pierre Lellouche has said he is not worried about the Tories' new European policy and would be able to work with David Cameron.

After a streak of damaging news, Nicolas Sarkozy has just switchedchannels. Forget the Culture Minister's sex tourism, presidential nepotism, political trials and a slide in Sarkozy's ratings.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a diplomatic visit to Paris on Thursday.

Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, perform during the Climate Change Talks in ...

Where's the 'cast-iron guarantee'? David Cameron insisted yesterday that tackling Britain's huge debt was more important than a referendum France has accused the Tories of 'castrating' Britain's position in Europe and threatening to turn the country into a backwater which would 'disappear off the radar'. In an extraordinary attack on David ...

Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin launched a bitter attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday as he went on trial for conspiring to smear his political rival before the 2007 election.

What does it mean to be French?

As part of a long-simmering question over France's direction, the government of Nicolas Sarkozy today started a website asking citizens to give input on French values, patriotism, and their thoughts on the rise of minorities here.

It's Step 1 of an ambitious national "grand debate" on "identity" that aims to span tiny French hamlets and city districts over the next four months, ending just ahead of a national by-election next spring.

The project, run out of the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity, opens a politically fraught but substantial debate that Mr. Sarkozy first broached in 2007: How to define French tradition at a time when France faces burgeoning African, Arab, and Asian immigrants, and other changes in a globalizing world.

London, November 03 : The Irish style of speech has topped the poll of the 'World's Sexiest Accent' defeating the French.

BRUSSELS: Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy's stock is rising as a strong "consensus" runner for the new job of EU president, diplomats said Monday.

Top French chefs have taken their art into the Paris underground, cooking up a treat for a crowd of commuters in a bid to prove haute cuisine can be cheap and simple.

Former French President Jacques Chirac released his memoir Tuesday, calling his successor Nicolas Sarkozy "nervous, in a hurry, ready for action" - comments notable for their restraint given the two men's tense relations.

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died.

Nicolas Sarkozy is once again wading into international diplomacy. After trying a hand at Mideast peace, raising France's profile on Iran and reaching out to Cuba, he's homing in on another problem long seen as Washington's to solve: North Korea.