Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural institutions since ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou broke a blockade of opposition parties that had brought down the government of his predecessor ...

France’s government survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday in parliament, and the state budget for 2025 is finally adopted ...

France has a retirement age lower than many of its European neighbors, but many French people view an early retirement as sacrosanct. It was part of the social contract developed at the end of World ...

Gaëtan Bruel, the former director of French Cultural Services in the U.S., has been appointed president of France's National ...

Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and a renowned philanthropist, has died at 88.

Hundreds of people protested in New York Monday against President Donald Trump's executive orders restricting treatment for ...

The US resident has issued an executive order suspending all programs for 90 days, with a few exceptions. The effects of this ...

Late US president Jimmy Carter on Sunday won a posthumous Grammy Award -- his fourth -- for best audiobook, narration and ...

It was made by Van Gogh during his stay at a psychiatric hospital in the south of France in 1889, according to experts.